asking out of curiosity,
Example: would an atheist, ( especially someone who hasnt been indocrinated by family or anyone else) understand the love expressed by phrases like: my creator, the one Ive come from the one Im going to...etc
Can they relate?
Or is it a completely bogus concept that is far from being related to?
2007-10-06 11:07:25 · 8 answers · asked by Antares 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Janet: that does very little to answer my question. Most people realize that theyre not going back to their parents when they die. God is such a wider concept.
2007-10-06 11:13:08 · update #1
i dont think the spiritual awareness part of their makeup functions ...
2007-10-06 11:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I can tell you is how I reacted to such phrases back when I was an agnostic. "A completely bogus concept that is far from being related to" summed it up pretty well.
However, I was the opposite of indoctrinated. I had shifting indoctrinations as the official family religion shifted radically every 2-4 years along with my father's shifts in his sanity. Not a good way to raise a kid; I grew up, naturally enough, thinking that all religion was BS.... I was sort of anti-indoctrinated, or over-indoctrinated to the point of rebellion.
2007-10-06 21:36:03 · answer #2 · answered by Skepticat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel love, hate, wonder, anger, heartache, joy, the whole range of human emotions.
I cannot relate to the 'love' that some people feel for an imaginary being.
2007-10-06 18:15:35 · answer #3 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's nonsense. It's like saying 'my lord and savior Stanley Kubrick'. (Except I'm more certain Kubrick existed.)
2007-10-06 18:20:34 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well im an atheist who was raised Christian and i do not really understand your question. Do you mean do we see Believer's Eyes glaze over when they Parrot nonsense statements?
2007-10-06 18:14:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i have a friend who does not believe in god, but believes in sci fi which i find strange he reads books all day long like star trek and crap like that, he got married in church i said why you did that its a religous ceremony, you dont even believe in god or Jesus, i think hes mad.
2007-10-06 18:26:32 · answer #6 · answered by HI 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might as well be speaking acient Arimaic. I was raised Christian but never believed.
2007-10-06 18:15:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ones who created me are my parents, and actually I'm going over to their house for dinner tonight.
2007-10-06 18:11:16 · answer #8 · answered by Blue girl in a red state 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋