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He now calls Christianity a nice myth

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Robert Todd Carroll is the author of The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions and Dangerous Delusions:

Carroll says his journey of discovery and self-realization took him from Catholicism to Eastern religions with stops in between.

"The more I studied, the more in-depth I thought about religious ideas, the more false and absurd they seemed to me until I got to the position where I actually started to agree with some of the philosophers I'd read like (the existentialist Soren) Kirkegaard," he says.

"Kirkegaard made a point of saying these beliefs in things like gods becoming men or virgins giving birth -- which of course now can happen but at one time was thought to be miraculous -- these defy logic, defy rationality and you have to make a leap of faith to accept them, you can't possibly prove them by any rational means.

"It became apparent to me that he (Kirkegaard) was right, but if you are going to take a leap of faith you can go in any direction you want and you really have no more justification for going one way (believing) than the other way (not believing) so it came to a point where I just found no reasons for belief ... just nothing that could be put forth to attract me," Carroll says.

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I am a gay Christian that is absolutely disgusted with the homophobia in the church. I view the Bible as a book based on ancient beliefs. Much of which has no baring on modern society. These fundies use their "book of evil" as a tool to degrade anyone who represents a threat to what they feel is the way God intended people to be. They feel their views are also God's views, therefore they justify their hate with the bible. I refuse to allow these evil individuals to turn me into an atheist because I feel the "There is no God theory" is also just as illogical as fundamentalist Christianity. The message of Jesus Christ was nothing like the fundies claim was Christ's message. Christ preached tolerance and equality and was very much against the religions of the time "calling it irrational nonsense" and legalistic evil. Over the centuries the original biblical texts have been changed and tampered with by historical figures for the sole purpose of controlling the masses through evil doctrines which had nothing whatsoever to do with Christ's message. All the Hell and Damnation of Christianity is pure Myth. Hell exists only for the fools who believe in it.

Posted by: USboy | March 3, 2004 7:50 PM

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