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Originally Posted by craig1120
Fella, didn’t you admit that you used to be religious? So you were fooled also then? Are you a hypocrite?
Yes I was fooled. It's called thinking and changing ... individuating ... and not remaining in blind delusion. How could candidly saying I was once in the church and now am not possibly be hypocritical? Hypocritical is staying in it and giving it lip service. What I'm doing is the opposite of hypocrisy. Religion teaches people to deviously and facilely circumvent reality and honesty as a way of life, including this latest post of yours, and call themselves moral.
Look at what you said ... that I was "fooled also." So you know that you are fooled and you stay in?? One time a religious guy in an atheism class, raised his hand and objected, saying: "Look how brutal the world was before they made this god up." When he realized it had slipped out what most of his brain thought - all but the compartmentalized religious part - that is that the god was "made up," he backtracked like 45 on his disinfectant rant.
Everybody knows that drinking blood doesn't give you eternal streets of gold. However, you can simultaneously hold that position in faith until you put the reality test to it. But in pre-medieval dogmatism, reality is often the enemy. Dogmatism and addiction are both fear based; in fact, dogmatism is an addiction. You shouldn't have inspired me.