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metal_geek · 11-19-2007, 12:37 PM

"My faith has had a "real" impact in my life that can only be measured by the way I treat my fellow human beings. It has impacted my kindness, my generosity, and my humility."

To each his own, because the realization that I have no faith has had a "real" impact in my life that can only be measured by the way I treat my fellow human beings. It has impacted my kindness, my generosity, and my humility.

I have a "Religious" experience every time I look at something in the universe. Every time I look at objects in space, ponder their existence, and my place in the whole thing. I realize how small I am, how small humans are, how small the earth is and how small our little solar system is in the big picture.

I look at all the little world wars, the brief existence of our species, and the amazing variety of life that just happens on this itty bitty plant. Laid out before me is how brief a time we have and how lucky we are to have as a form of life in this unimaginably big system, to be able to experience each and every event and interaction that happens.

It often leads to thoughts about "Why and how are we here?", "What?s the point?", and all the fundamental questions that we as humans have. When I look at all the religions on our infinitely small planet, it?s in this context I completely understand how people need something "Bigger" to help deal with these questions, and for some even validate their existence. My "Bigger" is how insignificant we are, there is no point, and how amazingly beautiful ,peaceful and enlightening that is...

The very real problem that I have with "Religion" are the conditions, it puts on peoples existence. I'm not saying that people are not allowed to have religions, on the contrary, have a religion, exist how you want, but the idea of Preaching infuriates me. Teaching secular view, behind a veil of acceptance and inclusion is hypocritical and dangerous to the extremely fragile existence we share. It's not an individual person?s belief that?s a problem. It's a religious organizations goal to "Spread the word" that?s like second hand smoke to the rest of the planet...
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Vapir Oxygen

11-19-2007, 12:37 PM	#148
metal_geek Scoring Winger Join Date: Jan 2007 Exp:	"My faith has had a "real" impact in my life that can only be measured by the way I treat my fellow human beings. It has impacted my kindness, my generosity, and my humility." To each his own, because the realization that I have no faith has had a "real" impact in my life that can only be measured by the way I treat my fellow human beings. It has impacted my kindness, my generosity, and my humility. I have a "Religious" experience every time I look at something in the universe. Every time I look at objects in space, ponder their existence, and my place in the whole thing. I realize how small I am, how small humans are, how small the earth is and how small our little solar system is in the big picture. I look at all the little world wars, the brief existence of our species, and the amazing variety of life that just happens on this itty bitty plant. Laid out before me is how brief a time we have and how lucky we are to have as a form of life in this unimaginably big system, to be able to experience each and every event and interaction that happens. It often leads to thoughts about "Why and how are we here?", "What?s the point?", and all the fundamental questions that we as humans have. When I look at all the religions on our infinitely small planet, it?s in this context I completely understand how people need something "Bigger" to help deal with these questions, and for some even validate their existence. My "Bigger" is how insignificant we are, there is no point, and how amazingly beautiful ,peaceful and enlightening that is... The very real problem that I have with "Religion" are the conditions, it puts on peoples existence. I'm not saying that people are not allowed to have religions, on the contrary, have a religion, exist how you want, but the idea of Preaching infuriates me. Teaching secular view, behind a veil of acceptance and inclusion is hypocritical and dangerous to the extremely fragile existence we share. It's not an individual person?s belief that?s a problem. It's a religious organizations goal to "Spread the word" that?s like second hand smoke to the rest of the planet... ________ Vapir Oxygen Last edited by metal_geek; 05-05-2011 at 11:29 PM.