How do I join this group? I no longer consider myself a theist. Sign me up. Religion is a cancer on society and I have no love for it any longer.
I have a feeling VP will see it in his heart to let me join. Seeing as how we have been ecf pals for.. (Damn has it really been 3 years?)if you go to your profile, find groups on the left, click that, search for this group, get to the group page and at the upper right there's a drop down box that says "group tools". you can select join group from there, but it looks like membership needs to be approved before it's official.
Because there cannot be a reason for life sucking this bad. I refuse to accept that there is some all powerful being who planned all of this and created us with such obvious and horrendous flaws. If life was even remotely fair, I'd buy it. But the pattern I have noticed is quite the opposite. If you are a selfish creepy douche you get ahead in life. If you live right and do right god will almost surely punish you. That does not compute for me. Like a week after we announced our wedding date my fiance was diagnosed with stage three skin cancer. Stage three means it's in her lymph nodes. They are giving her a 70% chance of survival. that and god if he had a hand in it. She is literally the kindest, most loving and giving person I know and does not deserve this. Yet mass murders and child rapists get to live til age 90 cancer free. I call shenannigans on that. If god is real he is impotent or a douche. Neither interest me. So I withdraw my previous stance that there is a point to all of this and that we are all connected. I no longer believe that. If god is real I will find him and stab him in the face with a soldering iron. So he had better hope he isn't.Just curious... what made you decide to no longer be a theist?
It's a bit more complicated than that. If we think things in terms of "good" and "bad", we tend to oversimplify matters. Things just are. I tend to suggest to others to refrain from black and white thinking.Like what I was saying in that philosophy thread... "the problem of evil" states: - God, by definition is all powerful and all good. He must want to prevent evil and is capable of doing so. - Bad, evil things happen all the time. - God must not exist.