Goodheart
Goodheart's JournalYour favorite sports star of all time? I'll start. Pistol Pete Maravich.
Pistol Pete Maravich - an amazing talent, so ahead of his time, and so very entertaining. He was one of those "did I really just witness that?" sort of performers, like my second favorite... the incomparable Secretariat.
Friend or Foe on Game Show Network.... how can anybody like to watch?
The show makes me cringe. I can't bear to watch greed get rewarded, and it often does.
My simple steps to atheism
- born into a Catholic family
- growing up saw all the evil in the world. So, at a young age I could reconcile the existence of human-perpetrated evil, believing that a loving and just god would ultimately punish the wicked, even when I didn't really consider why he would allow such acts in the first place.
- the step that REALLY started my turn away from a "loving god": all the cruelties in nature, where humans are not even involved. Why does it have to be that an alligator crushes the skull of a goose to eat? My young eyes could clearly see that the goose, the rabbit, the antelope... all the prey in the world... felt enormous pain, preceded by fear. I allowed myself the audacity to ask "if I created the world and every creature within it would I construct such a system? Is there an absolute need for it? ". And I then concluded that any rational person would answer NO to both.
- So, then, the next step at that point was to realize that there were only two possible states of god's existence: he either existed as a monster, or he didn't exist at all. And, inasmuch as I saw no benefit, whatsoever, to himself for an almighty entity to conduct a world full of cruelty and suffering my conclusion was that he didn't exist at all. (And, yes, I never ever considered that the almighty would be a "she". heh)
- Once I came to that belief (and, yes, I still admit that it's a belief rather than established fact), I am so certain of it that I can't imagine a more atheistic person in the entire world. And once here, the world's religions and all their rituals appeared silly, ridiculous, clownish, and their adherents uncritical and gullible. Call me arrogant, but I simply can not see how any objective person could conclude anything other than what I've concluded. Sir Isaac Newton? Undoubtedly a brilliant man... but objective on the matter? No.
Anybody else never particularly charmed with Mickey Mouse?
or Minnie? Or Pluto? Or Goofy?
There was never anything funny or clever about any of them. What was the attraction?
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