I’ve never asked, but what if you are part of Q, and are determined to help spread awareness and do what you can to help in anyway, but you are not of Christian faith? I believe in freedom of religion. I’ve seen the happiness, love, and grace that Christianity has filled people with and it’s beautiful.
But I’m not a Christian and I just wanted some of y’all’s opinions and thoughts on this.
I respect your brother, but stop saying you’re an atheist with so much conviction like that. Look inside yourself and turn to God, like all your ancestors have always done.
I used to duck the whole issue of religion. "I believe all the possibilities are possible." Back like 10+ years ago I was put in a situation where I had to really discuss it. My mom sicked some cute little Mormon missionaries on me. This one girl grew up in Kosovo. Was in the war etc... She knew her stuff. She set me to thinking. I couldn't answer some of her questions. So I went looking for answers online later.
It didn't take me a month to realize my problem all along... I've ALWAYS been an atheists. I went to Baptist churches in the south till about age 9 then Mormon churches till around 14. One day I just told my mom I'm not going to church and I spent the next two decades ducking the whole subject.
Never once in all my time doing anything with churches did I ever believe any of it. I'm a born skeptic. I need proof. I need to see it. I need evidence, and a book written by men two thousand years ago isn't evidence its just a book.
So... sorry. When Michele himself flies down and flicks me in the forehead... believe now... then I'll believe.
I have looked inside myself. I looked hard. It was such a relief to me reading a full breakdown of atheist vs agnostic vs Buddhist vs etc etc... and realizing the truth. I'm an atheist.
I have a long standing theory that I expressed on Gab and everyone attacked me made fun of me. See these Communists aren't real atheists. Why? Because they worship the state like its a god. They have absolute faith in the state. That's why they often seem like religious zealots.
I'm a real atheist. I wasn't brainwashed by a professor in college. I'm not rebelling against god. It's not a fad or I think its cool. I really do not believe in god, and more importantly I never did, ever. And absent undeniable proof I never will. Sorry.
I'm not evil. I'm a very moral person. I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I don't steal. I rarely lie. I hate lairs. Killing is bad, but sometimes necessary. All the usual stuff.
Along with not believing in god I don't believe in satan so no I don't worship him. Its just that simple.
Truth is I tend to agree with Christians on issues like removing crosses, and the ten commandments from courthouses etc. IMHO the test should be a simple majority vote of the local community as to whether that sort of thing should stay or be removed. The left in the USA horribly twists separation of church and state into something it was never meant to be.
The point was not to establish a state religion. It wasn't to remove all religion. By removing all religion you are in fact establishing that atheism is the state religion. Make sense? Its pure lunacy what they have allowed the left to get away with.
But isn't that the whole point... when you are "atheists" that really worship the state then you need to purge all the other gods from your churches... the courthouse, the city hall, the state capital building... these are your churches when you're a communist.
I would love to live in a majority atheist community that had in fact purged god from the local courthouse etc... by a vote. However, forcing that on the 75%+ christian community next door with a lawsuit is just evil.
So anyway odds are I'm not like 99% of the atheists you've met or heard about.