Date:   8/3/2007 10:32:25 AM ( 18 y ago)
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I am not an atheist. It doesn't really matter what I believe, however, for sake of my statement here. I don't think I'll be visiting this site again. I think the disrespect and insults that fly around these posts from both sides is disgusting. Must everyone always try to convince someone else of their side of the "argument"? Who cares what you believe? Who cares what I believe? Who cares what "scientists" believe? I don't see an honest, respectful exchange of ideas here. This is proseletyzing from both sides. If you're sure of your beliefs, what do you care what anyone says? And if you do, why do you have to be insulting? (By "you," of course I'm using the generic "you.") My father, who I loved more than life itself, was a lifelong, staunch atheist, very science-oriented, genius IQ, read physics textbooks for fun. I wonder where I came from. I didn't get anything of him except his bizarre feet. I believe in God, my interests lie more in history and English. My IQ is nowhere near genius. The point is, we were completely different. I didn't care what he believed; he didn't care what I believed. We often had discussions on the subject and agreed to disagree. I believe if you're a decent person, you're in, no matter what your beliefs. I have very good reasons for my beliefs which I won't elaborate on because it doesn't matter. Nonbelievers will explain away and believers will believe. You can be an upstanding, moral human whether you think toilet paper is your God or that there is no God. I believe there are threads of truth running through spirituality (I don't use the word "religion" because that is manmade) and Science that are inextricably intertwined and that they are absolutely not mutually exclusive.
Why can't we all be a little kinder to each other and just have a reasonable discourse instead of flinging you-know-what?
By the way, my father once had an OBE. He had no doubt that this is what it was, but it didn't change his mind and it had no impact on his life. He believed that things like that could happen, but they did not mean that there was anything "out there" metaphysical. I thought that was kind of interesting.
 

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