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Originally posted by VampiricClown
And that's the way you should be. Be able to listen, and converse back without overdoing it.
Atheists are the way we are because when you don't really believe in anything, there is less conflict with other people. You don't really have to force something on someone else, you have yourself to believe in, and you can live without having to worry every second that if you do something minor wrong that you're going to hell. Just explaining my view of things.
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To me it sounds like you may be giving other people a lot more power over your life than they should have. You don't believe in anything, partly because you don't want to get into a conflict with others? Fuck other people and believe in whatever you want.
I understand about the hell thing though. But my personal belief is that God knows me better than I do, he made me, so he knows why I do the things I do and I think he understands me and loves me anyway. That's another reason why I don't go to church, I think my beliefs are more open minded than most in the Christian churches, but that's none of their business and I don't want to hear them try to 'advise' me on things I've already thought about and come to terms with. I guess you could call me an off-beat Christian. My beliefs are based in Christianity, but I'm open to other things too. I'm too curious and fascinated by the universe to not be interested in what it has to offer.
Agnostics, I do understand. They tend to believe there is something out there greater than ourselves, but don't know exactly what it is. The dictionary defines it like this:
An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist.
OK, I guess that's now my 4 cents worth. :)