Michael Behe\'s son is an atheist (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, August 29, 2011, 04:27 (4836 days ago) @ dhw

My path to atheism was of course... quite shorter. I talked before about my encounter with George Carlin. -This 9 minute segment was the one that in a flash of gnosis turned me against religion, and God... The rest of the comedy special did the rest of the work. -My religious education until this point was a lifetime accumulation of about 100 or so Sundays, and what little my mom would teach me. (Which would include such things as the Sun is a planet...)-My own path to agnosticism...-I have to say that while my thoughts are much more refined than they were when i was 15. However, outside of a philosophical (and therefore theoretical) issue of epistemology, I would still consider myself an atheist. What keeps me from that last step? Only that I truly recognize a desire within myself for something more. And this was the desire that I couldn't discuss while I carried the label of Atheist. Because if you're an atheist in today's culture: that's it. You're done. You're silly (if not an idiot) to wish that there was more to this life than this crude matter. So much of my link of religion in the latter years of my life, has been to try and find ways to justify it. And without completely rewriting the history of all religions, this has proven nearly impossible. -My other problem has been in how to justify faith. A common defensive wall for religious people, has been that faith (and hope) are necessary for humanity. -I don't argue with hope, but I don't agree that faith is something that can get us there... in what context, faith?-How is faith helpful, and in this day and age, how is it NOT anything but evil?-I still await answers for this... and yes dhw... I've resumed writing my novel...

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"