Religion
In reply to the discussion: Question for atheists. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)It wasn't really any sort of 'come to Jesus' moment. More of a gradual thing, as I was exposed to religion and realized how sacred texts were chock full of contradictions and logical inconsistencies, as well as things that made sense for a low-tech, unscientific culture, but didn't really have any meaning when shifted forward in time. (I was the high school quiz team's religion guy for a while, which led to me reading through the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon and so on.)
The Bible DOES have a lot of great ideas in it, a lot of universal truths scattered around. But it also has a lot of barbaric and hateful ideas. So I can't really believe that it is 'the word of God', and, as such, is really just the words of men who lived a long time ago. Some good words, some bad ones. Some that were good or useful then, but not so much now. If you want to be a good person, you can certainly find a lot of good in it. But a bad person can equally find support for evil ideas in it.
It's what's inside you that makes the world a better or worse place, not what comes from outside.