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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
Ok, here is something about me, and it somehow feels embarrassing to say, but I think the conversation is returning to earnestness again, so here goes. I grew up attending a United Church every Sunday, where the dogma is relatively chill, and things like questioning the age of the earth were acceptable. But still, the Bible stories were the cornerstone of it. My family said grace before dinner each night, but the wrath of God wasn’t used a cudgel. More New Testament than old. Sometime in high school I became an atheist, and that felt freeing. But at some point something flipped. Eventually I came to feel like something was taken from me. I can’t go back now. There’s no point pretending that Santa Claus is real. But that doesn’t mean the belief itself is without value.
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Gonna
@gonna
Similar here now I praise Geometry as ruler of the universe.
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yost
@yost
baptist private school k->8 one shouldn’t need the promise of heaven/hell to see the merit in good deeds. stole the quote from somewhere and paraphrased but that one has always hit me. similar path for me as you, I think, but I learned how to learn in that place and I will forever be grateful for that.
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
@deanpierce.eth
I was raised atheist (my dad grew up in one of those bad churches in Texas) but I've come to understand that there's a lot of value in community ritual. Religious literalists are kind of doomed in the information age, but apparently Christian literalism only emerged in the Roman era when religion was outlawed, and only the most die hard followers who believed bible stories are literally true persisted. What's important is a shared cannon within the community. Books that everyone has read and can discuss the implications of once a week, and figure out how the lessons of yesterday can inform our actions tomorrow. I think that was well understood in the pre-Roman era. It was a book of morality tales, just like any other book of fairy tales, and that was fine, because every kid learned them and could use them to ground their shared philosophy within the community. I feel like that's what religion should be.
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skantan 🎩
@skantyy.eth
my family says grace morning and night too so i think i can relate to your background a bit, at times i do question the purpose of our existence but i’ve come to realise without religion there’ll be a lot more havoc
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Rafaello.base.eth
@rafaello12
There is nothing embarrassing about this, everyone has the privilege do believe in God or not. Really glad you shared this and I would want to know more about you
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