aaronwill: I'm really sorry for you

aaronwill:

I’m really sorry for those of you who went to public school, its psychologically draining. How can you repetitively be told that you are “star stuff” that you are an accident, nothing more than a cosmic mishap of cloud collisions somehow forming a perfect living condition for life. If the moon was…

This is…incorrect. Evolution merely aims to explain how species develop and adapt, not seek the answer to how everything started. Homicide and violent crimes are overwhelmingly perpetrated by theists, not atheists. Prisons are predominantly occupied by theists, not atheists. Christians have, as of 2007, a higher divorce rate than atheists [http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm]. We are not accidents. We are the result of a beautiful, breathtaking series of events that ends with our own autonomy, giving you the ability to think what you think; to have internal dialogue (perhaps through a mutation somewhere along the line, one study suggested recently). 

Consider doing good for the sake of doing good versus doing good because God says we should and it is the best way to heaven. Which is more moral and which is more self-serving? I think I speak for most secular-humanists, agnostics, and atheists when I say please don’t feel sorry for us. We’re perfectly happy with what we believe.

  1. johnyadollahi reblogged this from aaronwill and added:
    Okay. So through God’s glory...infinite insight as...all...
  2. aaronwill reblogged this from emmahey and added:
    @johnyadollahi: Well first let me thank you...your gracious thoughts, but
  3. inbroaddaylight reblogged this from johnyadollahi and added:
    Belief shouldn’t be an addictive, I-have-no-other-options thing. Thus, you shouldn’t feel sorry for others grounded in...
  4. johnyadollahi reblogged this from aaronwill and added:
    This is…incorrect. Evolution merely aims...explain how species develop and adapt, not seek...
  5. aaronwill posted this