Kader writes:
How is relations with your family now ?
I'd say pretty good. Some don't know I've abandoned my faith and some do. Those that do don't mind and those that don't don't mind.
How is it that you didn't make excuses up or simply put, why aren't you like so many religious people..in denial of reality as perceived by science ?
It's not just the magic versus science part that made me lose my faith. Being religious require you to be hateful. I hated black people, muslim people, hindu people, buddhist people, gay people, etc. Christian fundamentalists will come out and downright deny that they hate. But trust me, deep down they preach nothing but hate. That's how they can keep their identity.
Not just christianity. Practically every religion that's ever existed thrived on hate. Without hate, any religion would lose its identity and dies.
If god (if he/she/it exists) wants to throw me into a pit of fire for all eternity just because I refuse to hate, then is it really worth it to worship such an egoistic maniac?
Simply put, oen of the biggest factors that made me doubt my faith was meeting a gay person, befriending him, and seeing how he didn't have vampire teeth and slithered tongue like I was taught gay people were. That and basic kinematics in physics.
And do you miss/regret anything ?
I am a completely different person now. I don't think women are inferior like I used to to think. I don't think gay people are monsters like I used to think. I help other people not because I was promised heavenly rewards or hellish punishment. I help simply because we're all in this together! I don't need a burning bush to tell me killing, stealing, etc. are wrong.
I have lots of regrets. One of those was telling a gay person he need to find jesus.
By the way, I still keep my mouth shut at family meetings even when some of them rant about how evil them gays are.
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