I guess for my first post, I will try to explain my current position.
I'm recently left the military after 6 1/2 years, E-5, honorable discharge with 1 combat tour. Iraq changed my life forever, and I now have seen the potential for grave harm from religion first hand.
I'm an Atheist first, Deist second. Do I believe in god? No, but I admit the possibility of a god who does not write books, does not care about your sex life and does not interfere, because that's all I see evidence for.
I was raised Christian but it never really took. When I was a kid I liked scary movies and stories. So I defined very early what I thought was real and what wasn't. I had no fear of anything I considered not real, I was scared of real stuff, falling off my bike. I realized as an adult that it never even occurred to me to be scared of the attic, the door to which was in my own bedroom closet as a young child. I think god never took in my mind because I had no fear of his reprisal. I played at being Christian until about age 17. I finally decided that my unvoiced internal battle of "did I believe this" finally got to me, and I decided I really cared if my "religion" was true.
I began reading, studying voraciously. This has continued as life allows since. Sometime less, sometime more, sometimes not at all. I started keeping track of it all about a year or two ago.
But I did not find the bible to be reliable for many reasons we can discuss another time. I also mention I am going through the Qur'an now. I have read all of it, but have only started my notes for the text recently. One day, I might gather it all into a book.
I will say simply that my conclusion was, our human mark is on those texts, not a god's.
Politically I think in terms of secular society, small government and non-intervention. Fix this nation first, then we can see about helping our neighbors.
In science, I am currently perusing a dual major in electrical engineering and physics. I intend to study electromagnetic activity in space, a point where I believe the gravity model universe proponents including Mr. Einstein, has failed to properly account for. (not that I adhere to plasma cosmology.)
I look forward to sharing and learning.
Finally, I submit to you, that I can see donkeykong's wennie,
K: which has distracted me by waving back and forth on right side of my screen, the entire time I wrote this. Put that thing away man!
I'm recently left the military after 6 1/2 years, E-5, honorable discharge with 1 combat tour. Iraq changed my life forever, and I now have seen the potential for grave harm from religion first hand.
I'm an Atheist first, Deist second. Do I believe in god? No, but I admit the possibility of a god who does not write books, does not care about your sex life and does not interfere, because that's all I see evidence for.
I was raised Christian but it never really took. When I was a kid I liked scary movies and stories. So I defined very early what I thought was real and what wasn't. I had no fear of anything I considered not real, I was scared of real stuff, falling off my bike. I realized as an adult that it never even occurred to me to be scared of the attic, the door to which was in my own bedroom closet as a young child. I think god never took in my mind because I had no fear of his reprisal. I played at being Christian until about age 17. I finally decided that my unvoiced internal battle of "did I believe this" finally got to me, and I decided I really cared if my "religion" was true.
I began reading, studying voraciously. This has continued as life allows since. Sometime less, sometime more, sometimes not at all. I started keeping track of it all about a year or two ago.
But I did not find the bible to be reliable for many reasons we can discuss another time. I also mention I am going through the Qur'an now. I have read all of it, but have only started my notes for the text recently. One day, I might gather it all into a book.
I will say simply that my conclusion was, our human mark is on those texts, not a god's.
Politically I think in terms of secular society, small government and non-intervention. Fix this nation first, then we can see about helping our neighbors.
In science, I am currently perusing a dual major in electrical engineering and physics. I intend to study electromagnetic activity in space, a point where I believe the gravity model universe proponents including Mr. Einstein, has failed to properly account for. (not that I adhere to plasma cosmology.)
I look forward to sharing and learning.
Finally, I submit to you, that I can see donkeykong's wennie,
K: which has distracted me by waving back and forth on right side of my screen, the entire time I wrote this. Put that thing away man!
