Normal, sadly. But nice to see you understand how foolish it is of them. I'm pretty much agnostic myself, so I don't take sides but when it comes to athiests versus Catholics I've noticed one incredibly annoying trait on both.
That is, as you said, the more annoying athiests resort to mockery and condescending remarks and refuse to see any positive in religion, and hardcore Catholics are just way, way too pushy.
Ugh, I was raised Catholic. Those people don't celebrate their faith, they mourn it.
Lately I've had a Baptist and a Jehova's witness showing up a lot trying to "save" me and take me to church. XD
After getting away from Christianity, I studied more religions while not adhering to any of them. The text are very insightful from a philosophical perspective. Hell, I've been having a hard time even bringing up philosophy in those forums, people are seriously lumping *philosophy* in with mystical kinds of thinking.
See that's something big that I thought. I as a nontheist (don't know what to call myself) don't want someone trying to force me to accept god back into my life. Why should I be doing the same thing to them? As long as they're not hurting anyone with their faith I don't see why I would ever need to bring it up.
You sound agnostic, which is what I classify myself as. You believe in some form of higher power, be it god or a great undetermined force, but you don't lean towards any one religion, but in fact appreciate the points each of them make. I think generally that's what an agnostic is. Not positive though, maybe you should look it up, haha
Sounds about right. Essentially my idea (better to have ideas than beliefs ;P) is that the Universe is itself the higher power. Kind of pantheism without the mysticism, and I'm really into Taoism as a philosophy.
It's not that there's some greater being up there, but the universe is in itself one large body made up of all of us smaller beings, in accordance with the universe being a fractal. So there are probably different forms of consciousness out there, some of which would be considered higher because they're at a higher evolutionary stage, but they're not god, just other life forms, not so different from us really.
The higher power is essentially just nature doing what it does, the order (or chaos) of the universe. Life perpetuating itself.
The meaning of life is whatever we make it. We are the perceivers.
IIN that many modern day atheists use ridicule as a conversion tactic?
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Normal, sadly. But nice to see you understand how foolish it is of them. I'm pretty much agnostic myself, so I don't take sides but when it comes to athiests versus Catholics I've noticed one incredibly annoying trait on both.
That is, as you said, the more annoying athiests resort to mockery and condescending remarks and refuse to see any positive in religion, and hardcore Catholics are just way, way too pushy.
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Ugh, I was raised Catholic. Those people don't celebrate their faith, they mourn it.
Lately I've had a Baptist and a Jehova's witness showing up a lot trying to "save" me and take me to church. XD
After getting away from Christianity, I studied more religions while not adhering to any of them. The text are very insightful from a philosophical perspective. Hell, I've been having a hard time even bringing up philosophy in those forums, people are seriously lumping *philosophy* in with mystical kinds of thinking.
See that's something big that I thought. I as a nontheist (don't know what to call myself) don't want someone trying to force me to accept god back into my life. Why should I be doing the same thing to them? As long as they're not hurting anyone with their faith I don't see why I would ever need to bring it up.
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You sound agnostic, which is what I classify myself as. You believe in some form of higher power, be it god or a great undetermined force, but you don't lean towards any one religion, but in fact appreciate the points each of them make. I think generally that's what an agnostic is. Not positive though, maybe you should look it up, haha
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Sounds about right. Essentially my idea (better to have ideas than beliefs ;P) is that the Universe is itself the higher power. Kind of pantheism without the mysticism, and I'm really into Taoism as a philosophy.
It's not that there's some greater being up there, but the universe is in itself one large body made up of all of us smaller beings, in accordance with the universe being a fractal. So there are probably different forms of consciousness out there, some of which would be considered higher because they're at a higher evolutionary stage, but they're not god, just other life forms, not so different from us really.
The higher power is essentially just nature doing what it does, the order (or chaos) of the universe. Life perpetuating itself.
The meaning of life is whatever we make it. We are the perceivers.