Heretic Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Well.....I've always believed that something was out there and it wasn't until I was older 20 something that I thought it was God. I remained skeptical for many years, until I was 42. What changed? Well, about a year prior to that, both my daughters back then "found" God at the ripe old age of 16 & 18. So I decided to seriously check it out. It had nothing to do with my mortality. Almost 7 years later, and all 3 of us still firmly believe in God. I remarried and my new wife has believed in God since she was a little girl. That said, she was brought up in a fairly religious home. Myself and my daughters? Nope - there was no religion in my upbringing nor their's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Evil Twin Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Well.....I've always believed that something was out there and it wasn't until I was older 20 something that I thought it was God. I remained skeptical for many years, until I was 42. What changed? Well, about a year prior to that, both my daughters back then "found" God at the ripe old age of 16 & 18. So I decided to seriously check it out. It had nothing to do with my mortality. Almost 7 years later, and all 3 of us still firmly believe in God. I remarried and my new wife has believed in God since she was a little girl. That said, she was brought up in a fairly religious home. Myself and my daughters? Nope - there was no religion in my upbringing nor their's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key2thecup Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Atheism is a religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICanucksfan5551 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Atheism is a religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Weren't you in a tough place with divorce at the time? If memory serves correctly, you found Jesus while picking your heart up off the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Evil Twin Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Thanks for bringing that up - I was hoping someone else would. Nope - my marriage was rock solid (at least I thought so at the time). It wasn't until a year and a half later that my wife(at the time) left me (she believed(s) in God as well). My take? God was preparing me for what was going to happen - for He knew that I wouldn't have been able to go through that without Him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key2thecup Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Are you going to make this ridiculous claim in every thread having to do with the subject? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJokinen! Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Are you going to make this ridiculous claim in every thread having to do with the subject? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICanucksfan5551 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Not ridiculous at all, it has morphed into its own brand of religion. Not everyone who doesn't believe in 'god' or 'organized religion' is a atheist though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJokinen! Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Everyone who doesn't believe in a god is an atheist by definition. That's what atheism is and that's all it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Evil Twin Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I think you're forgetting agnostics. Neither group believes in God, but agnostics "don't know if there is," whereas atheists believe there is no God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super19 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I think you're forgetting agnostics. Neither group believes in God, but agnostics "don't know if there is," whereas atheists believe there is no God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICanucksfan5551 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I think you're forgetting agnostics. Neither group believes in God, but agnostics "don't know if there is," whereas atheists believe there is no God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 That would've been your take regardless of what followed. God works in mysterious ways, remember? I hope one day you give yourself the deserved credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJokinen! Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Those two terms aren't mutually exclusive. Gnosticism and agnosticism deal with one's claims of knowledge of something and theism and atheism deal with a belief in god. I'm an atheist who can't say that there's no god, so an agnostic atheist. Scorpio posted this picture that I like in another thread: Edit: looks like he got here first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJokinen! Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 At least you're not trying to redefine words like zaibatsu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbo Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 That's an interesting image, I've always felt that "gnostics" are quite silly, one way or another. How can you really know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 That's an interesting image, I've always felt that "gnostics" are quite silly, one way or another. How can you really know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmployeeoftheMonth Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Atheism is a religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJokinen! Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 That's an interesting image, I've always felt that "gnostics" are quite silly, one way or another. How can you really know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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