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15th February 2013

“Young people are growing up exposed to more cultures and religions. As our society becomes more and more cosmopolitan, it's more difficult for young people to say that I believe because my parents and clergy believe.”

August Brunsman

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One Response to “15th February 2013”

  1. Sinjin Smythe Says:
    February 15th, 2013 at 15:38

    “Young people are growing up exposed to more cultures and religions. As our society becomes more and more cosmopolitan, it’s more difficult for young people to say that I believe because my parents and clergy believe.”

    My Grandmothers were both devoutly religious: My maternal Grandmothers was Catholic, my paternal Grandmother was Protestant/Presbyterian.

    My Mother and Father were agnostic early on but both now think there is no god, that religion is just junk.

    I have never suspected that there was someone standing behind the door. It never made any sense to me that someone would be. Perhaps Stephen Hawkings point about god not being necessary summarizes how I’ve always felt about the matter of existence.

    The logic batted about in these discussions regarding proof, where because I can’t prove a negative doesn’t automatically validate it “you can’t prove god doesn’t exist” isn’t proof that he does, but if you could prove he does exist the matter would be settled.

    For me even if you proved god existed I wouldn’t need him. I relish the loneliness of life without god. Think about it, if you really do die at the end of this life, if in the fleeting moment of death you are fading alone in your thoughts, you don’t have anything to fear. You will never know death, but you will have known people and in that moment you can remember them.

    If you are good about being social you will have known many good people, you will have had a lot of fun, and you will learn that in this great grand loneliness all these lonely people that you have shared this existence with were the icing on the cake of life. If you have covered the cake of your lonely life with the icing of good people you will see nothing but good people and good times in your fleeting moments.

    You don’t have to even believe this, there is no faith test in this logic, it will be there waiting for you anyway.

    Next time someone gives you the Pascal’s wager argument think about this.