Short of all the buzz words like defining points; what I want to know is have you always believed the way you do today? If no, what changed your mind? Can you remember the event or events that lead to your change of heart?
2006-10-30
04:35:10
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Bruce-I admire your faith..you have been given every reason to doubt yet you still hold on.
2006-10-30
04:53:26 ·
update #1
Paul S - Know what you mean..sometimes it is a journey with no destination.
2006-10-30
04:56:53 ·
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Yes, there have been a good many. To quote the Grateful Dead, "What a long, strange trip it's been." . . . and continues to be.
In the last 30+ years, Jesus has used many situations to refine my attitudes and belief. To follow the Apostle Paul's lead, I will boast in my failures. The times when I am the weakest, from a religious view, have been the times when Jesus teaches me the most. The highlights are:
Near suicide,
Two failed mirages,
Alienation of my children.
and many other times when I had to be let down, over the wall, in a basket.
But Jesus is always faithful.
The only way that I will arrive in heaven is when Jesus carries me in, in a basket.
2006-10-30 04:50:23
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answered by Bruce 3
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Excellent question. I grew up believing, and only stopped believing when I became an adult. There was no defining event - simply the fact that the promised "god" never appeared, and the arguments used to rationalize the lack of evidence came to be more and more clearly just that - rationalizations.
As a result, a central "defining point" is that wishing doesn't make it so. Just because I'd like there to be a god doesn't mean that there is one.
The corresponding core value is that of honesty. It is dishonest, and for the atheist, unacceptable to invent "evidence" for one's religious beliefs. To put it simply, I'd rather be right than be a believer.
I find Andy's answer interesting. I'm current a "Bright", but Buddhism does seem attractive to me. I am not going to just leap in and make a big hairy deal out of converting to Buddhism, but I think there's a real possibility that over time I will realize that I already am one.
2006-10-30 04:40:35
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answered by Anonymous
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For me it's been a journey from doubting Christian theology to rejecting it completely from an intellectual viewpoint and from a moral viewpoint to a lesser extent. Looking back I can se that even twenty years ago I was moving slowly towards Buddhist philosophy with its lack of theology but only in the past few years have I fully accepted it.
2006-10-30 04:39:35
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answered by Anonymous
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i do no longer think of you already know what you're asking. the actual question is, while does something grow to be illiberal ? And if some issues are precise and a few incorrect. it quite is a query of fact and not of Will. IN different words, IT might desire to be actual that some ideals are precise and a few incorrect. That might desire to be actual.
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answered by osuch 3
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The study of evolution was the closest thing to a "defining point" in my acceptance of the agnostic view.
2006-10-30 04:42:56
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answered by Captain PC 1
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when I finally got old enough where my mother allowed me to make up my own mind regarding Religious matters I developed the belief system I follow to this day.
2006-10-30 04:39:31
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answered by Marvin R 7
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Well a friend of mine, who is pagan was doing a ritual and it looked interesting so I asked her to tell me about what she belived and it made more sense to me than what I belived in before.
So she taught me what she knew and I read alot!!
BB
Morgaine
2006-10-30 04:49:38
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answered by Anonymous
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I have never believed in god. That has never changed, only that as I grew older I gathered further evidence for my disbelief.
2006-10-30 04:39:00
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answered by Anonymous
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