
Originally Posted by
butong101
questions
1.) is being an atheist a personal choice or a result of circumstantial process/events that lead you to it?
2.) Having a religion has disadvantages and advantages, one of its advantage is its effect that there is a rainbow after every storm, how do you deal life w/ out having this lay-way/ life escape route effect religion brings?
3.) do atheist like you are affected by the norms religion brings such as morality? how do you make terms to it?
1. sir i can say its a personal choice although my parents dont have religion they didnt try to stop us from going to church or believe in something.we were free to do what we want, they even said that now that we are older we know if religion is important to a person and if we have the need to have a religion,to go to church and believe in jesus christ or etc then we are free to do so. at least we are old enough to choose but since we were brought up this way (no religion since birth) then i guess having no religion is no longer a big deal to us (i dont see any difference of not having any religion, you dont get a vip treatment if you have a religion) just as long as were not gonna be treated in the society being less of a person then for that case we have nothing to worry about.
2. as an atheist we believe that instead of going to a church and praying and hoping that some luck will come he/she has to go out to make it happen instead of relying on god in some manner. he/she makes her own luck and takes their own risk.
3. as an atheist point of view, nthere is no better morals than what i ahve learnt from my own family. that means no lying or whatsoever and if you get caught lying you will never be believed again. now, my statement for the church is it allows the people to repent their sins wether theyre a murderer,thief or liar. they go and repent their sins and the next day they go out and commit the same sins again. they work in a cycle.
the norms religion and morality for an atheist i think they are just the same except that in an atheist point of view there is no repenting of sins you must live with it for the rest of your life if you are committing it which should be a deterrent from committing any sins or whatsoever while if you are lets say a catholic, you can repent your sins and probably be forgiven and next day you can go out and do the same thing again because they can just repent their sins and be forgiven. its like going around in circles. its an endless cycle.