What is unconscionable to me is that an atheist, the most helpless, hopeless person to breath life, can live his life as if everyday was a step forward for him. Further, what my mind cannot seem to come close to is the fact that an atheist can hang out and spend time with someone filled with life and peace, and somehow resist not taking a bite. How is the holy spirit
not that contagious? Although it makes near no sense, I almost think that believing in some faith is better than believing in none, even if one thinks it is completely false. As an atheist, there is no point to one’s existence. You are just another dot on the map. You will live, go through school, smile, poop, make money, spend money, have ideas, try them, have pleasures, have pains, and then your life will end, the latter, according to them, in a state of literal disappearance. But, it is a paradox and, worse, a hoax, a lie, to live as though believing something, yet not really doing so.
I could half-way understand why someone would be an atheist. It takes a hard heart, some sort of outside attention, such as a reputation as being against the idea of God (so extreme now-a-days; or is it the other way around?), or an abuse or neglect of any kind that could cause any lonely heart to ask the question, “Why would such a good God do this (and worse of all) to me?” There is so much science out there that in some cases proves the absence of a God, and some that proves otherwise- all none conclusive and highly debatable.
My simple impression is that I know people who are godless, which, in my mind, is a paradox to the nature of humanity. How sad is the man with no God. Emmanuel no more. What is there to live for? What is the point?
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The easy answer is to say that one needs to live life to the fullest. To live in the moment and experience it for all it's worth because once you are gone there is nothing more. Nothing left to take in because you simply slip into the black of nothingness.
Carpe Diem! They'll say.
The problem is that in order to come to that conclusion I have to dig deep and become selfish. I am no longer doing things because they are good. I am doing things out of an entirely selfish motivation to make myself feel good. If you dive further into that thought process the lines of what is right and wrong will have a tendency to become a little nebulous and before you know it…society begins to breakdown.
I realize that I skipped a few steps there but all one has to do is pick up a newspaper and realize that it’s true. Search in your own school. Those fringe kids who you hear do crazy things on the weekends. Search out farther, look at the ridiculous houses and things people spend their money on in our county. Farther out there are parts of Los Angeles that are lost because they firmly are located in Gang territory. On a national scale we have an internal debate over wether or not a mother has the right to end the life of her unborn children. Even farther…wars consume places we never knew existed. People whose names will be forgotten forever are buried in mass graves. Farthest out of all….we slowly and steadily destroy the planet that we have been given stewardship of.
How an Athiest can stand all of that and say “I need to live life to the fullest!” is, to be honest, foolish.
God loves us so much that he gave us the choice. The choice to ignore him or love him.
It’s a good thought process, Jay.
Imagine having a child and that child growing up and deciding that all the good things you’ve set up for him, all the advice you’ve given him to make sure that he is safe, to make sure that he is loved….doesn’t matter. None of it does.
Does it break your heart?
It should.
It breaks God’s heart.
So now what?
i really like your thought process.
i read this yesterday and i kind of made my day. i mean, i had an encounter with someone who just wanted to contradict all my beliefs because they were having a bad day and wanted to flaunt there 'atheism' and so they tried to shove it down my throat. This was just great, it pretty much describes how i felt towards that person.
i dont want to write a novel like gerry, so we should just have a legit conversation about this some time in the future.
good deal jay kelly, good deal.
since when are indie people atheist!!!!!
Quiet, Tally.
The mainstream people are talking.
i really enjoyed this. as in it made me think. i agree.
for some I believe that they saw through other religions such as Islam and don't trust any religions now.
if you're going to try and dis me Gerry, at least spell my name right please.
OH: BURN!
Don't I have to care enough to spell your name right for that?
no, but you do have to have half a brain to get it right. something you're obviously lacking.
I suppose so, Tally.
jerk....
jay, youre my baby
haha and gerry is funny
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