"Darn it God I was really sure you were non-existent"
Hello K:
As I read the Atheist Handbook, you're allowed 2 goddamn's a day, 2 god bless you's, and one OMG. If you go over, you ARE obligated to go to church..
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What about "son-of-a- bee?"
Ya it's like that with Santa Clause too. When I was about 45 I stopped believing in him. Then a few years after that I thought I would write him a letter for old times sake. That Christmas there was a new chain saw under the Christmas tree and it was exactly like the one I asked for in the letter. Cheers and happy weekend!
You do believe in God. It is so obvious. You cannot stop talking about Him.
Do you know anything that is right? How do you know? What we call "right" is determined by a list of things that we carry in our head, invisible. Quite often you meet someone who has a very different list from yours and the two of you consider each other to be deluded. That is the meeting of a believer and an unbeliever. An atheist insists there is no such list.
"it's the man made scriptures that screw my thinking"
1- If all or most of what it said made sense to you would it really matter that it was man made?
2- Perhaps it's the proportion of statements that don't make sense, or the degree by which they don't make sense, that screws up your thinking. If so why not check up other scriptures. They might have none or they might have levels that are low enough to be acceptable to you.
I'm a bit puzzled.
You sound like the atheist who on hearing horrible things about believers said, "Thank God I'm an atheist."
Did you temporarily become a believer so that you could pray and then reverted back to atheism afterwards? Or were you giving God a chance to show up, like the Australian guy in this video who grew up atheist asking God for a sign in the middle of the night saying something like, "I know you must be busy. There's probably a lot happening on the other side of the world.... but if you could just make this candle ruse up in the air, like in the movies... that must be nothing for you, after all you made the whole universe...."
"different scriptures"? or scriptures of different religions?
so what is this "power"? Is it a natural power?