Something halfway inspiring for once
Offline A cousin of my mother's, raised in the Assemblies of God church (Pentecostals, basically) ran into my folks at a funeral this weekend. His holy roller mother is currently suffering from the later stages of Alzheimer's disease; that's the bad part. This man, whose children were also raised in the faith and are now competitive adopters of the Vietnamese, confided in my mother that his experiences with his mother's condition have led him to the condition that no god can exist. Terrible way to come around to a victory, but it gives me some hope. Here is a person in his middle age, conditioned to be religious as a child, who could be forgiven for clinging to his faith, given his mother's suffering, and with a great deal invested in it, who has seen reason and walked away, in the depths of the Bible Belt no less.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
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Oh come now... God exists and is clearly testing the mans faith... by slowing killing and liquifying his mothers brain.
Ah!... humor at the expense my moral decency and the dignity of others... never gets old
What Would Kharn Do?
hey! he came about it by the same way as me! My father has the late stages of Alzheimer's disease so i know how he feels. Not only that but i was conditioned to be a holy roller at a young age but i came about to a more logical solution (in my own opinion) at a much younger age then him as well!
It really sucks to come to a conclusion like this this way but it is still better than being delusional.
Allow me to beat them to it.
*ahem*
"I'm sorry to hear you're an atheist because you're mad at god. But one day you'll find out that you can be angry at God all you want, but he still loves you."
I feel dirty.
A place common to all will be maintained by none. A religion common to all is perhaps not much different.
lol! the only problem with that arguement is im not an angry person. Initially i was angry then i was sad then i accepted that i couldnt change the fact he had it then i decieded to research god/what would happen, more research i did less plausable god got till finally i got to here where i am.