Being a proud atheist

First of all my friend, be who you are. Second, since you clarified that fanatics are responsible in your salty feelings on matters regarding religion, that exempts the good Believers, of which I belong.

Yes religion is a powerful tool that has helped many a man in their search for what they believe in just as much as the influence on so many brutal acts are accounted for.

it is not religion that is bad really, but the people who has used it for their own end even at the expense of the good that we can all learn.

Now you leave me alone with my belief and I will leave you alone is a good balance. After all like you said, being good sometimes can truly be shaped by the fundamental teachings of all religion. The Ten Commandments to me is a very good example of what a good community we can all be if we truly observe and practice the essence of the belief and principle it fosters.

However, in the barbaric origin of this uncivilized world, religion came to cement people's trust, respect, belief and love for each other. I can't emphasize enough that had my pagan ways of life would have succeeded in rising above Christianity, WE WOULD STILL BE BEHEADING OTHER PEOPLE WHO BELONG TO ANOTHER TRIBE. And I thank God and my ancestors for having submitted to the more civilized ways of life brought by the pilgrims.

In closing, religion or belief is not the problem. It is the very basic lack of respect and unity among people and go to the extreme and claim God as the source of anything for the killing and other brutal infliction of injury. All for power and greed.

Thanks.

Amen excellent blog, thank-you.

That is a question that I can't answer myself. My belief is a measure of not how much I know but a rather manifest of my faith which you can't truly equate to any definitive and or scientific process.

I do know that our world progressed tremendously on the account of religious principles. Yet it is the very tool that was used for so many fallible and questionable account of brutalities and wars.

Yet in the end, you and I and all of us, truly don't know what happens after we die. Very few has gone so deep like Dr. Brian Weiss on the encounter of documented lives through his patient. But you have to read and figure it out yourself. MANY LIVES MANY MASTERS, is the title of the book and will give you an enlightened take on life, and the dimensions available for our spirit and energy. But as you said, the truth of the matter is, not whether you are atheist and or a believer that causes the dynamics of life's account on being good or bad. Simply a choice of choosing to be respectful and open minded on other's way of life.

Unity and understanding is achieved with or without religion but plain common sense..

My friend, this is a very good blog as it allows us to explore the real root of the problem and I am happy to be one of your good friend..

Always...

Good for you easyboy. Hmmmnnn good luck on your desire to be there..and hope you will have fun. Maybe I will see you there?

Ian your new profile pic is just interesting..

As always, I love your response KC my friend. But even better for me is that I couldn't care less if I am proven to be wrong and or right. It is just there for me now. Now is the time for me to have it to my system..and yes, the non claim of such is the void of all that can be proven as such...

God gives us free will and the ability to create our tomorrows..."Be ye as gods" I am so surprised that you say this Freedom as I thought I knew you a little bit.....