I simply don't care whether a God exists or not

[BigBallsLarry]

Apologies, I confess I dnr’d all the posts and jumped straight to the last comments like the dopamine crazed tiktokcel I am

That's okay, i do that too in long threads usually Unless i find the thread intresting. I still appreciate your good reply bhai.

 

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I would say I'm more atheist than anything else, but I've never once tried having a debate about it with others. I never saw what others believe as "wrong", it's just I couldn't force myself to believe in it.

I said I was agnostic for a while, but that's mainly a political stance atheists will take around religious people so the religious don't feel nervous around them. Not always, but it's how it's used in a lot of cases. Most people who are openly atheist are a bit more aggressive about enforcing that belief system than most agnostics are, for example.

I've spoken to many religious or ex-religious people about it, I've had talks that lasted hours, I've read blogs about it, watched videos about it, I've read forums about it, I've attended church, I've recently started picking up the Bible and the Book of Mormon. I just can't believe in it though, in any religion. I've spoken about Islam, Christianity, etc., and all of them feel the same to me.

An aspect of me wanted to believe in religion so badly, because the purpose it brought to others made me envious. I also assume it brings people a lot of comfort following religion. A lot of religion also brings togetherness like with their churches and so on, which helps out a lot of local communities. In so many ways, it sounded ideal and everything I've been looking for. After experiencing as much death as I have, it gave me promise to maybe seeing loved ones again. But I just can't do it.

I simply have no reason to have faith in God. People focus a lot on whether it's "true" or "not true", but whether it is or isn't - I have no reason to follow any faith system. If I grew up religious, it may have a purpose in my life. Even with the aspects I desired in religion, I just didn't feel like I had any reason to force something I just couldn't believe in. As you could tell, most of the "perks" I associate with religion can be achieved outside of it (besides death), so I just do that instead. I'm not scared of Hell or the afterlife, and I'm not scared of death, so it really doesn't apply to my life.

 

[BigBallsLarry]

I would say I'm more atheist than anything else, but I've never once tried having a debate about it with others. I never saw what others believe as "wrong", it's just I couldn't force myself to believe in it.

I said I was agnostic for a while, but that's mainly a political stance atheists will take around religious people so the religious don't feel nervous around them. Not always, but it's how it's used in a lot of cases. Most people who are openly atheist are a bit more aggressive about enforcing that belief system than most agnostics are, for example.

I've spoken to many religious or ex-religious people about it, I've had talks that lasted hours, I've read blogs about it, watched videos about it, I've read forums about it, I've attended church, I've recently started picking up the Bible and the Book of Mormon. I just can't believe in it though, in any religion. I've spoken about Islam, Christianity, etc., and all of them feel the same to me.

An aspect of me wanted to believe in religion so badly, because the purpose it brought to others made me envious. I also assume it brings people a lot of comfort following religion. A lot of religion also brings togetherness like with their churches and so on, which helps out a lot of local communities. In so many ways, it sounded ideal and everything I've been looking for. After experiencing as much death as I have, it gave me promise to maybe seeing loved ones again. But I just can't do it.

I simply have no reason to have faith in God. People focus a lot on whether it's "true" or "not true", but whether it is or isn't - I have no reason to follow any faith system. If I grew up religious, it may have a purpose in my life. Even with the aspects I desired in religion, I just didn't feel like I had any reason to force something I just couldn't believe in. As you could tell, most of the "perks" I associate with religion can be achieved outside of it (besides death), so I just do that instead. I'm not scared of Hell or the afterlife, and I'm not scared of death, so it really doesn't apply to my life.

That's all fair enough. Thank you for the well thought out reply.

I can see you explored it deeply and ended up with what feels right to you, and i respect that deeply. I personally know i still have time to figure it all out, but so far my stance is similar to yours - I'm not scared of hell or afterlife, so it simply doesn't matter for the quality of my life.

I appreciate you for sharing your thoughts man.