re: #266 CuriousLurker

We live in America where everyone is free to live as he or she pleases as long as no laws are being broken, so I really don’t understand why we have to keep rehashing the subject when neither one of us is going to change the other’s mind.

I don’t think you really mean to say nothing should be discussed except if one believes in advance that the other’s mind can be changed, do you?

I’m not interested in changing you mind or even particularly curious about why you’re an atheist. I prefer to just live and let live.

I’m disappointed that you are not even curious as to why others have a different perspective than you do. Honestly, that doesn’t sound like what I have read from you.

I have never said I can’t just let you live as you wish, but I am curious to understand, step by step, what it is that motivates someone as intelligent and literate as you to adopt (as opposed to inherit) a very ritually dogmatic system of belief. There are plenty of none Islamic examples of that, so don’t take this as a targeted point, and it really has nothing to do with the general belief of a deity.

I really don’t mean to broaden this to a general issue of religion, only the aspect discussed was my issue. Plenty of “believers” get dressed every morning without thinking about whether the clothes are acceptable to god. Only some do, and those who do seem to see it as a statement that can only be relevant according to how others see them. I thought religion was a matter of the heart and the soul, not fashion.

I’ll subscribe to this if you peek later :)