Belief shouldn’t be an addictive, I-have-no-other-options thing. Thus, you shouldn’t feel sorry for others grounded in their beliefs. As a person with belief in anything, that belief should make you empathetic enough to be happy for the existance of things that make people happy. A cosmology shouldn’t be a clung-to dependency, ever. You are the universe and the universe is you. If you believe Life/Love is in everything, aren’t you just like a pagan, just like a Gnostic, just like a scientist, just like a self-evident Buddha walking down the street smoking or cursing or wearing a scarf because its cold?

ps. This is still the only country where Christians DON’T accept evolution or scientific cosmology. America is an extreme freak! in the whole picture of the world

P.P.S. As always, John, props on the entry!

johnyadollahi:

aaronwill:

I’m really sorry for those of you who went to public school, its psychologically draining. How can you repetitively be told that you are “star stuff” that you are an accident, nothing more than a cosmic mishap of cloud collisions somehow forming a perfect living condition for life. If the moon was…

This is…incorrect. Evolution merely aims to explain how species develop and adapt, not seek the answer to how everything started. Homicide and violent crimes are overwhelmingly perpetrated by theists, not atheists. Prisons are predominantly occupied by theists, not atheists. Christians have, as of 2007, a higher divorce rate than atheists [http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm]. We are not accidents. We are the result of a beautiful, breathtaking series of events that ends with our own autonomy, giving you the ability to think what you think; to have internal dialogue (perhaps through a mutation somewhere along the line, one study suggested recently). 

Consider doing good for the sake of doing good versus doing good because God says we should and it is the best way to heaven. Which is more moral and which is more self-serving? I think I speak for most secular-humanists, agnostics, and atheists when I say please don’t feel sorry for us. We’re perfectly happy with what we believe.