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Author Topic:   Opinions and conclusions about Religion and God.
mike the wiz
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Message 152 of 280 (323181)
06-19-2006 9:27 AM
Reply to: Message 122 by nator
06-15-2006 7:01 PM


I went to a funeral a couple years back. It was so foreign to what a believer actually deeply believes in that it was infact, to me, a complete mis-understanding of what faith is. It was bad to get amused at a funeral, but honestly, there is nothing as plastic or as superficial to me as a church-version of faith.
This guy was a real militant atheist, on the TV, and he went to live with these monks with a bunch of other secularists. He had an experience, a religious experience.
He said something similar to, "I don't know what that energy was or what I call it, but all I know is that it was real".
Sure, you can reproduce the feeling in a lab maybe. Not the point. The point of my anecdote is an observation I made and your post reminded me of it.
You see, previously, he rejected belief in God because his example was only things like church. Now this was the reason for his disbelief, and I have witnessed many with the same logical reasoning that goes;
God is fake because the religious, and church, as an example, are just so darn fake/a bad example.
Ironically Shraff, after his experience, he went to church for a mass, to try and attend as a believer, thinking they'd all be as passionate and on fire as he now was and he infact gave similar sentiments to your post.
I haven't been to church for fifteen years apart from that funeral. It was completely foreign to me.
So my conclusion is that disbelief in God based on religious roll models or others, is not a good reasoning to not have faith.

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