FievelJ
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- May The Force Be With You, (Atheist)
I always tell people I only really became an atheist about 8 or so years ago, but that's actually more when I finally let things in really.
The honest to goodness truth is, that maybe when I finally became an atheist, it really was not the first time I questioned my faith.
If there's a topic it works in better already, please don't delete everything I type, and somehow move it there.
But it would have been back in the 80s sometime. Probably around 14-years-old, when I asked someone at my current church about Dinosaurs, believe you me the answer was actually even somewhat confusing, and as I look back the reason for that is, the answer they gave me was probably an excuse to still place their god into it. Later on I asked my father about why other countries have different religions, at the end of that too, it ended in excuses as to why to believe in Christianity, and not a real answer in many ways. That was sometime between 2000 and 2005, I did find the answer I was looking for, and atheism is what I found. It does not box you in to a world that's only as large as the size of the belief. timeline as well, as Christianity's world and universe is about 6,000 to maybe close to 10,000 years old.
In any case, the simple facts I found were the universe is 13.7 billion years old, after NASA corrected us that it isn't 13.8 billion years old.
Earth itself the place we live is about 4.5 billion years old, four and a half billion years old.
Things such as the timeline like the youngest thing on it unless I have not done my research well enough, is religion not just Christianity but all of them as a whole are the first youngest thing on the time line, followed with US, the human Race. Third is Evolution of our Race.
I don't know further back really, not much anyways, but do know Dinosaurs is on there someplace in many different older things out there.
I do know that closing my mind to a single religion and not grow beyond that that I am living in a little world, which I was boxing myself in. As long as you accept the outside of that box, then you are very closed to many things I accept. There's like 4200 - 10,000 of those boxes too, oddly enough there's more people which the boxed in world is called Christianity as I have looked, and have got a number of like 2.2 billion. Like WOW, there's that many people out there refusing the real reality to things?
But anyways, I stopped living in that box, and actually when I finally did go atheist wondered some why I did not try harder at another time in my life. I did have more than one time I questioned it, just wanted to list about it.
Again, if this fits someplace else, and better, please try to preserve what I toyed.
Thanks For Reading.
The honest to goodness truth is, that maybe when I finally became an atheist, it really was not the first time I questioned my faith.
If there's a topic it works in better already, please don't delete everything I type, and somehow move it there.
But it would have been back in the 80s sometime. Probably around 14-years-old, when I asked someone at my current church about Dinosaurs, believe you me the answer was actually even somewhat confusing, and as I look back the reason for that is, the answer they gave me was probably an excuse to still place their god into it. Later on I asked my father about why other countries have different religions, at the end of that too, it ended in excuses as to why to believe in Christianity, and not a real answer in many ways. That was sometime between 2000 and 2005, I did find the answer I was looking for, and atheism is what I found. It does not box you in to a world that's only as large as the size of the belief. timeline as well, as Christianity's world and universe is about 6,000 to maybe close to 10,000 years old.
In any case, the simple facts I found were the universe is 13.7 billion years old, after NASA corrected us that it isn't 13.8 billion years old.
Earth itself the place we live is about 4.5 billion years old, four and a half billion years old.
Things such as the timeline like the youngest thing on it unless I have not done my research well enough, is religion not just Christianity but all of them as a whole are the first youngest thing on the time line, followed with US, the human Race. Third is Evolution of our Race.
I don't know further back really, not much anyways, but do know Dinosaurs is on there someplace in many different older things out there.
I do know that closing my mind to a single religion and not grow beyond that that I am living in a little world, which I was boxing myself in. As long as you accept the outside of that box, then you are very closed to many things I accept. There's like 4200 - 10,000 of those boxes too, oddly enough there's more people which the boxed in world is called Christianity as I have looked, and have got a number of like 2.2 billion. Like WOW, there's that many people out there refusing the real reality to things?
But anyways, I stopped living in that box, and actually when I finally did go atheist wondered some why I did not try harder at another time in my life. I did have more than one time I questioned it, just wanted to list about it.
Again, if this fits someplace else, and better, please try to preserve what I toyed.
Thanks For Reading.
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