Thread: Any Atheists Here..?

Long ago I had a painful Facebook discussion with one of my little half-brothers who believes god exists. He's even in the way of becoming a minister (pastor, preacher?) in one of those international very known christian groups. Perhaps that was why when I was talking to him, I preferred to say 'God' trying to show some respect to his thoughts (or was I being sarcastic?). At the end I was pointed (by one of our older half brothers) as having sort of an agnostic-open-minded point of view and he as being a very obstinate person. Anyway, there was a moment when we were immerse in the discussion that I remembered him as he was 5 y.o. (almost one of my kid's age at the time of the discussion) when his mother got separated with our father and I didn't see my little brother but from time to very long time, that I realized I was arguing with him in stead to some unknown die hard christian, and it was him who was defending to death his weak but strong point of view (if you know what I mean). I couldn't feel nothing but regret for life and all I learned was that we must respect other peoples thoughts whatever they think and try when possible to teach them how things work already in the most simple way. I mean, I cannot pretend to teach partial differential equations to somebody who knows constants but doesn't understand variables.

I think imaginary things do exist in our brains as part of the complexity of nature and we are constantly reflecting those thoughts to the outside whenever something strange (bad or good) happens in an effort to explain it. Unfortunately for me, I always find a logic, scientific and not-controversial explanation for whatever strange happens to me. And if I don't, I simply consider that I don't have enough information. A lot of times I find people claiming, when similar things happen in their life, that it's a prove of the existence of deities. Sometimes it's hard to see somebody claiming truths from things we consider to be false, specially when it's a person who we love, but I think that as one of the first steps towards understanding of our fellow brothers and sisters. At the end, perhaps we are all related in terms of evolution!

It's curious to see people claiming to be tolerant and acting exactly the opposite, not allowing others to express their ideas and trying to change other people's mind by forcing them into thinking against their own convictions, scientific or not.

Hope it makes sense.