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Author Topic:   The Atheist Experience
Hyroglyphx
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Message 19 of 283 (839595)
09-10-2018 5:59 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Phat
09-10-2018 3:22 PM


Re: In Brief
You choose to require evidence for everything you accept. My evidence was subjective and internal. I can't expect you to use my evidence nor can I replicate it for others.
His erudite point though, Phat, is that you have no problem rejecting Islam or Scientology out of hand because there is nothing remotely substantive to even assume it let alone spend gobs and gobs of hours trying to either confirm or reject it. It's just... asinine. So is that a choice on your part to reject Islam or does it just not make a compelling argument and you move on with life?
For Tangle, Christianity just doesn't make a compelling enough argument to seriously entertain it. He might feel the same about Mithra. And Allah. Or the Vedic scriptures.
But he does, on the surface level, appear to be accurate about one thing... your agonizing over this stuff. Sometimes I wonder who you're actually trying to convince.... us... or yourself.
Looking back at my time in Christianity, I see how restless my mind was. It is utterly exhausting to be a Christian (at least one that actually attempts to live out their faith in earnest). There is no "peace" in it... just constant self-flagellation.

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 31 of 283 (839657)
09-12-2018 3:22 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by Faith
09-10-2018 10:34 PM


Re: In Brief
I have a hard time grasping this idea. It sounds like "works-righteousness" or legalism, rather than salvation by faith. There are plenty of struggles in the Christian life, some of them due to misunderstanding it, some due to our own sin problems, some due to spiritual warfare with the satanic hordes, and some due to conflicts with the world with which we find ourselves increasingly at odds as we grow; and probably other causes I'm not thinking of. But I would think that once one has "tasted" God ("Oh taste as see that the Lord is good") nothing on earth could possibly compete.
My point being that I found it to be a farce based on what I wanted to be real, but ultimately concluded was not. But if it means something to you, I by no means would try to convince you otherwise. If it provides meaning in your life then I wish you well.

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

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