tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13170910.post7139301231087144233..comments2024-03-28T03:20:56.262-04:00Comments on The Writer's Life eMagazine: The Story Behind You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can't Make Him ThinkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13170910.post-89040536403864357552009-02-28T11:35:00.000-05:002009-02-28T11:35:00.000-05:00I enjoyed this column. Though I wouldn't call mys...I enjoyed this column. Though I wouldn't call myself an atheist; I'm more of a free thinking agnostic, with religious ties, believing that no one possesses definitive answers regardless of what they may claim.<BR/><BR/>Mankind has manipulated the idea of a God to suit his personal beliefs. We hope for a heaven because we feel that life is not enough. If there is anything to label as sin, that may be it. We fail to develop our potential by wasting the time we have in hope that more lies beyond. We create hell to manipulate by fear. <BR/><BR/>Over time, the books we hold to be 'holy' are written and re-written to conform to our then current wishes and beliefs. There may or may not be a God. If so, he/she/it bears no resemblance to the clay image we have bestowed. Mankind has been on earth for eons. In that time there have been many interpretation of what God is. How audacious for us to claim that we know who or what God may be. <BR/><BR/>I look upon religion as a heritage along with an interpretation of what a given group of people have chosen or have been indoctrinated to believe. It is by experience neither necessarily good nor bad. It is an experience. <BR/><BR/>We should all have the personal power to believe or not to believe in what we choose and should not attempt to enforce our personal interpretation upon others...especially those who do not share those views.<BR/><BR/>Mike Levy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com