My stepping away from My religion occurred I think about 5 years ago. So my middle-ish thirties. Right about the time that they tried to make it illegal for women to be able to have access to medical services. And I argued that if the government has the ability to force a person to bring another person to term then the government has the level of authority it needs to take away your guns or do any other thing that would impose its rule over you via force. And when the church people who finally pulled the mask off and said yeah but at least this version of tyranny is okay according to the Bible was when I stepped away. Prior to that I had struggled with the concept of if there is a being that could have created all of existence, us as human beings would be like a flea trying to comprehend the lunar landing. And if a being of that caliber exist I cannot fathom that it would care whether or not you touched yourself at night. Or who you were in the bed with.
Prior to that I had struggled with the concept of if there is a being that could have created all of existence, us as human beings would be like a flea trying to comprehend the lunar landing. And if a being of that caliber exist I cannot fathom that it would care whether or not you touched yourself at night. Or who you were in the bed with.
The more we learn about both the universe at large, and the history of our own species and planet, the more that seems true.
Human civilization as we conceive it has only existed for like 10k years.
Human beings as we conceive them have existed for like 300k- 400k years before that ☝️.
The first human-like creatures (Habilis), existed for 1600k years before that ☝️.
There was 66000k years of creatures just existing and adapting and competing and evolving from the point of the dinosaurs being extinct until the point of Habilis ☝️.
And to get to the point of the dinosaurs being extinct, it took 3700000k of life evolving on earth ☝️.
Those numbers are truly mind numbingly, staggeringly huge. Human civilization has existed for 10k, and we’re talking about a process that took 3,700,000k of random chance to get to that. The idea that God cares about what you jerk off to is wild.
‘Three words that made me an atheist: Paediatric Oncology Ward’.
I can’t remember who said that, but it’s spot on.
My stepping away from My religion occurred I think about 5 years ago. So my middle-ish thirties. Right about the time that they tried to make it illegal for women to be able to have access to medical services. And I argued that if the government has the ability to force a person to bring another person to term then the government has the level of authority it needs to take away your guns or do any other thing that would impose its rule over you via force. And when the church people who finally pulled the mask off and said yeah but at least this version of tyranny is okay according to the Bible was when I stepped away. Prior to that I had struggled with the concept of if there is a being that could have created all of existence, us as human beings would be like a flea trying to comprehend the lunar landing. And if a being of that caliber exist I cannot fathom that it would care whether or not you touched yourself at night. Or who you were in the bed with.
The more we learn about both the universe at large, and the history of our own species and planet, the more that seems true.
Human civilization as we conceive it has only existed for like 10k years.
Human beings as we conceive them have existed for like 300k- 400k years before that ☝️.
The first human-like creatures (Habilis), existed for 1600k years before that ☝️.
There was 66000k years of creatures just existing and adapting and competing and evolving from the point of the dinosaurs being extinct until the point of Habilis ☝️.
And to get to the point of the dinosaurs being extinct, it took 3700000k of life evolving on earth ☝️.
Those numbers are truly mind numbingly, staggeringly huge. Human civilization has existed for 10k, and we’re talking about a process that took 3,700,000k of random chance to get to that. The idea that God cares about what you jerk off to is wild.