"Have I missed any do y'think?"


From Ooh-Aah2

'Anyone who still believes in God and all that superstition is:

(1) Too afraid of death, for self or for loved ones to look reality in the face - I find this human and understandable, if a bit gutless

I look 'death in the face' a few times a year on average. That I may or may not have another life after this one has got nothing to do with why I 'look death in the face' a few times a year. (I don't care for the personification, but hey, ya know?)

(2) Brought up to believe in God - and therefore to give up the belief is to destroy part of his or her emotional core

I have been a 'believer', 'non-believer', aethiest, agnostic, gnostic and often just a ne'er-do-well. God is not part of my emotional core. Never has been.

(3) A weak person (nothing neccessarily wrong with that) who finds religion an invaluable prop to make meaning from an otherwise meaningless life - lots of 'born agains' come into this category

I am not at all religious.

(4) someone too blind to see the sacred nature of our lovely planet and awe-inspiring universe, who thus has an unneccessary emotional thirst for a supernatural 'something else'

I have spent years of my life 'close to nature'. I'm as, maybe more, at 'home' in the bush as I am in towns or cities.

(5)Probably the most common category - God and religion are simply part of the lifestyle they have been brought up with - questioning the need for God would be like questioning the need for furniture

God is a reasoned decision I arrived at after about 45 years of thinking about it all.

(6) Those for whom 'God' is a convenient simile and shorthand for political views and a particular lifestyle, for example the US right.

That ain't me. God, politics--they should be oil, water. Too bad people get the two mixed up.