Kader
Member (Idle past 3757 days) Posts: 156 Joined: 12-20-2006
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Message 1 of 3 (400107)
05-10-2007 1:00 PM
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At what moment did you believe (and why) ?
Since then did you ever doubted that you might be wrong ? For me it was inevitable. My parents being from different religions (muslim and catholic) they've never imposed any belief on me. When I was a kid though I believed in God because my parent did, they never gave me the bible to read or the Qu'ran, but they talked about God. I never really was part of a group of people sharing the same belief (no such thing as agnostic group..and even if there was, I didn't even know I was agnostic until not too long ago) As I grew up, I met many people, most of them religious (either christian or muslim) and they tried at some point to epxlain there view of God to me(with a confidence I admired). But everytimes they applied a flawed logic. The Qu'ran says its true, and so it is. If I had the audacity to point it out They gave me the "you don't understand yet" look. So I stopped, and I kept nodding until they finished. I couldn't understand the faith they had in a book. They didn't question it. I know that there is a lot of different interpretation, but each time, there is always a leap of faith, hence you don't know, but you choose to believe (and act as if you know). What made me agnostic is simply that unfounded stubborn faith and mostly the lack of integrity. I've seen muslim drink and gamble, I've seen christian preaching war etc etc. I said it was inevitable for me because I think that in most cases, if you don't mold the belief of a child early on, he will most likely be agnostic or atheist. This is from personal experience (hence, unfounded). *unfounded : For believer its founded on many things, like the number of people believeing and the validity of the message. Edited by Kader, : No reason given.
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