One of the
reasons I stopped posting here (besides the usual “little patience with talking
to myself in an empty room) was that after years of being an antitheist, it dawned
on me that I wouldn’t wish the condition on anyone else. So I stopped
proselytizing. I have a hard time
participating in discussions about belief with people who swear by theirs, but
I wouldn’t necessarily want to change their minds, unless…
Unless I
could offer some alternative upon which to hang their minds and rest their
so-called souls.
I had just
decided I would do so by showing – as opposed to telling – how I reached this
point and how I dealt with being godless every single day of my life since. (After
this initial re-introduction, I’ll attempt to recall and explore the path to
total atheism, through the various facets that come under the faith umbrella.)
I was
thinking I would start up a new blog –again
– this one having pretty much slipped off my radar, using the title “Diary of a
mad atheist woman”, with the word “woman” crossed out. But when I looked it up
I found that someone else was using it, or something very much like it, and the
blog drew me in like few (or maybe none) before it. Definitely worth checking out or its sister
site,. Because as luck would have it (just an expression, nothing underlying
it), at the very same time I was checking it out, an announcement appeared to
say it was moving, to
but if you
want to check out what Greta has been saying for years, go directly to the old place
which is
filled with juicy tidbits and bracing theories too.
Below is the first comment I tried to post (and will
check back to see if I succeeded) in relation to her post about accommodation vs
diplomacy on the part of atheists
If not
accommodating those who hold religious beliefs (and I'm not necessarily against
that in principle, I'm just wondering whether the consequences are at all
practicable) is the aim then to strip them of such beliefs? And if so, what can
be offered in lieu of such beliefs? I know from my own experience that having
some kind of faith is (mostly) easier than not having any at all.
Considering
all of the facets of life that belief systems are intricately woven into, I'm
not sure how capable - mentally, emotionally - most people are of living
without them...
I don’t
really know if there is/are definitive answers to the question, but I can’t
wait to read the views of Greta and her fellow atheistic friends.
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