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1. RE: Family Matters...?

   Posted on July 07, 2012 at 03:25 AM (UTC) ( 12 months ago )
   

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   While I am a Christian, I agree with you that you should not be forced to be confirmed into a religion, or anything else, in which you do not believe. That being said, I would also add that I believe most people who reject religion, and God (the two are separate) do so for two basic reasons: 1 They are turned against it by their parents and their families in general, as you apparently have been, at least to some extent. 2 They have never explored the subject. The subject of God is much deeper and wider and most people think, and most people's knowledge and experience of it is very superficial, and they like to keep it that way. They have never tried to climb up the ladder of consciousness and peek over the edge of the world, because they are afraid of what they might find there. Remember, too, atheism is a faith based belief system, because it is logically impossible to prove a negative; you can never logically prove God doesn't exist, therefore, you have to accept that He doesn’t exist on faith. It is a belief, not a certainty, and can never logically be a certainty.

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