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Originally Posted by Livia
Religion IS a very personal thing to many people. Yet you're still trying to lump in people all together, and that's what people with no belief try to do always. You look on people with faith like they're missing something in the big picture that only you can see and you go to great pains to press home your point.
I consider myself to be an intelligent person. I do not feel coerced, nor have I, nor will I ever try to press my religion on other people. My religion doesn't recruit. I am told what not to eat and in the main I follow it but admit I am not a slave to it. I am very amused by your assumption that I am eventually going to become some kind of automaton, blindly following a set of rules I don't understand.
You don't have to be religious to be a monster... that's been covered many times in this thread but it's worth repeating because you still seem to labour under the misapprehension that religion and violence is intrinsically linked.
You yourself seem quite bitter about people who are religious. I have no thoughts on your atheism (or whatever you want to call it)... if that's what you believe, knock yourself out. I don't know why you would feel justified in being so hyper-critical of people who do have faith.
I want to lead a happy and positive life, and I feel I am doing just that. I don't need the permission of someone who believes in nothing to validate me, nor do I accept their criticism.
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Good Post Livia, yes I guess I do come across as having a bit of an axe to grind with religion. I appreciate the majority of people can live happily with their religion but for me it is a deeply personal issue and because at its heart it involves faith which overrides logic, organised religions can and do impose certain levels of control and regulation over people's lives.
That is the core of my argument, I'm not bitter about people having religion I myself was brought up Catholic and am now a mixture of Christian and humanist but as I've stated it is a personal issue for me and how I live my life, not being a pawn in someone else's crusade to convert everyone I meet from one belief system to the other..!!