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The Uber driver decided I needed an endoctrination into Islam on the way home from dropping off the child.
I didn't believe creation stories when they came down from the on high of my school's teachers. I'm certainly not interested in adopting a worldview based upon bad things whispered into my ear by a creation of fire that thought it was better than a hollow clay model of man. A very 25 minute divergent look at genesis wasn't on my Saturday agenda either!
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Day Garwood

I'd much rather have faith in an infinitely powerful designer who designed creatures as complicated as ourselves from the earth, and loves us enough to give us hope for a better future, as opposed to the alternative where there is no hope for man or the planet at all, because we just happened to exist by accident evolving from lower order animals.
And if I'm wrong and it turns out there's no afterlife? Well then I'm dead, and I haven't lost anything, and I'll never know any different.
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Sean Randall

@daygar I am quite peaceful without God, thank you.
I agree the planet's going to kill us all off with or without god eventually, unless we do it to ourselves of course. But I also have hope that if we survive to a time when the sun goes nova it'll be Human intelligence that gets us off the planet in time to keep surviving. I don't feel the need for an imaginary being to make that a reality in my life.
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Andre Louis

@daygar If god exists, then god made man, and god allowed them to kill more of god's creations... But but god is merciful. How does that track?
Anyway, way too much of a rabbit hole to go down. Suffice to say war, famine, disease, hatred, trump and musk all exist and if god made all that, well...... I don't even want to know why. Amusement? Boredom? Sadism?
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Sean Randall

@TwoThousandStu @FreakyFwoof @daygar as far as I'm concerned, if there is some sort of existance beyond the physical for which I of course have no proof one way or the other, I'll deal with it when I'm done with my earthly life.
I don't need God to bring peace to my heart, to be a happy person, to do good deeds and help my fellow Humans where I can. I personally find the idea that people need commandments from some sort of spiritual uber-being so they are able to do good and avoid temptation to be difficult to swallow, but then we are all very different and I'd never discriminate against people for their beliefs.

But as I said earlier, it's the proselytizing I struggle with.

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Jane

Wow, that is so inappropriate for drivers to do. Very fortunate that the only thing I've had to deal wwith from drivers is their choice of music. When we chat, I keep it light. Now, don't get me wrong, the gospel music *is* pretty, but ... if I ever get a driver that tries to indoctrinate, no tip, and if possible I'll figure out how to thumbs-down. If that can be one in LYFT, that is.
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