Stile in the OP writes:
Basically, I would like this to be a thread where people can voice whatever it is they think is the weirdest or hardest part to being an atheist.
Straggler writes:
Debating with deists.
My flippant answer aside.....
Stile writes:
I continue to seriously pursue the reasons behind religious motivations and thoughts every day. In fact, that's one of the reasons I've started this topic.
On a more serious note.....
Finding that you have fundamental differences of underlying "world view" or belief with people who in every practical sense you agree with strikes me as very bizzarre.
In any way that matters in practise people can agree with the way the world works. But scratch a little deeper and you find that those common conclusions are derived from deeply opposing points of view. Points of view that are academic in soooo many senses of the word but which are fundamental in so many others. Questions about the nature of evidence, the role and meaning of "faith" etc. etc.
I find it fascinating that those so similar can be so fundamentally different. I guess it is just all part of life's rich tapestry......
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