PrimezTime said
I think your upbringing had a lot to do with your opinion on religion. I never felt blinded to any aspect of the world. I was free to discover what I wanted and free to form whatever opinions I wanted. Now what is interesting is that I spent all my early schooling years at a religious schools but never found them to be demanding, I guess. Oh the schools would definitely push religion a lot, but I never felt obligated. I feel like I had a choice but I chose to believe in a faith, even if there was no concrete evidence.I think it is the right thing to do, but I also think that everybody is allowed to believe or not believe in whatever they want. As long as they find satisfaction and have good intentions in the way they go about it. I just still hope they are a good person so if my religion is true, they can have a good afterlife, too.
I never felt blinded either as long as I was religious.
But once I became an atheist and looked at everything without there being a God Element I was able to see far more of the world.
And most of the things I've found with religion wasn't from my own family but from other religious people.
My family was a whole "Ignore the entire Bible" kind, which I also had issues with.
Cause the Bible is their religion, what they are supposed to be following. It makes no sense to ignore the thing and still call yourself a follower of that religion.
ImANargleHunter said
There's no concrete evidence of anything. Widely accepted scientific theories are being disproven all the time, which is part of why science is so rad! We can't even prove we're real!
Some disproven, others updated.
But always on the basis of proof and evidence given.
It's open minded in that if it's proven wrong it will adapt and change to account for that new information.
Science admits we don't know everything, and goes out to find the truth.
Religion, makes a claim and sit's with it, not ever proving it.
If arguments are given otherwise, it just gets written off as blasphemy and/or the devils work.
