This is what I believed in high school and early college, too: God and religion are just coping mechanisms to make people feel good, safe, moral. Fools! And then you realize it takes all the critical thinking, self-reflection, and maturity to admit you don’t know everything.
This is what I believed in high school and early college, too: God and religion are just coping mechanisms to make people feel good, safe, moral. Fools! And then you realize it takes all the critical thinking, self-reflection, and maturity to admit you don’t know everything.
@EudaimoniaEsq You went to Notre Dame an Atheist? Wild
@EudaimoniaEsq Question: Does not knowing everything and being mature enough to say so have to = believing in a god?
@EudaimoniaEsq Okay, but God isn’t a way of admitting you don’t know everything. Admitting you don’t know everything is, “There are gaps in my knowledge, and that’s okay. I didn’t fill them in.”
@EudaimoniaEsq God is the best coping mechanism! I've no shame to admit the the Lord is my crutch.
@EudaimoniaEsq Truly striving to live the Christian life is choosing to play the game of life on hard mode. That person just self-reported they understand nothing about Christianity.
@EudaimoniaEsq So you acknowledge you don’t know if God exists?
@EudaimoniaEsq Atheism is usually a coping mechanism for people who use over-stimulation to feel good. Because they are acting sinfully, they don't get the sustainable happy juice that is virtue. They are insecure and fearful that without their addiction they will never feel good again.
@EudaimoniaEsq The way I always spin this around: "What evolutionary purpose does the relentless desire for God serve?" This is especially effective if they argued that religion only causes grave amounts of wars and meaningless death.
@EudaimoniaEsq i mean you can admit to not knowing everything whilst still being an atheist.