I’m glad you enjoyed visiting my blog. I’d love to hear your thoughts if you’re interested, as I like getting as many different view points as possible.

I am a firm believer that people are best served by knowing as much as they can about the ideas, beliefs, and motivations of others as a way of coming to a mutual understanding (if not agreement).

cheers, Unattainability!

Obviously there have still been many more posts since then, the summary gives a fairly good overview of the discussions going on withing the post.

I do agree with you that nothing I can say will changing the mind of a true believer, but it can help push somebody who’s on the fence, and it can help give somebody reasons to doubt, and then perhaps they will look for more information at a later date.

However the original purpose of my post was not to de-convert anybody it was to allow people to see there are many views on the same subject and that perhaps people need to learn to understand each other, even if we don’t always agree.

Actually, the thing is, that I’ve sort of given up with arguing over these topics. I have been a believer and I know that actually there is no point of arguing with one. There wasn’t a point of arguing with me when I believed, as I was certain of my own truth and no one could convince me by just arguing with me.

What it took for me to de-convert was to read a lot, think a lot and make up my own mind.

If there is a way to make people think about these topics then it would be great. But I think people are afraid of freedom, afraid of unknown and maybe some people do need that directing guidance from… somebody. In this case the religion.

I am asking in all sincerity, because I do actually want to understand differing view points, and since you seem to have a different view on religion than many of the people currently in the discussion, I feel your input would be relevant.

Thank you in advance.