re accepting jeesus in your heart in apr athos rutgers edu jayne mmalt guild org writes gsu uxa ecn bgu edu eric molas writes firstly i am an atheist i am not posting here as an immature flame start but rather to express an opinion to my intended audience deleted we are just animals we need sleep food and we reproduce and we die i am glad that i am not an atheist it seems tragic that some people choose a meaningless existence how terrible to go on living only because one fears death more than life huh okay so i m not eric molas but even if that is how he feels about life i disagree with it life to me is definitely not meaningless it has precisely the purpose and meaning i choose to give it i go on living because i like living if i needed any further reason i d be free completely free to pick any reason that suited me that freedom can be almost intoxicating it s probably the closest i ve ever been to a religious experience i m very glad i am an atheist i wouldn t be anything else i feel so sorry for eric and yet any attempts to share my joy in life with him would be considered as further evidence of the infectious nature of christianity not unless in explaining your own subjective experience you also try to convert him or proselytize merely explaining the effects you personally experience religion as having on you is not infectious not unless eric is paranoid that is as a christian i am free to be a human person i think love choose and create i will live forever with god whatever floats your goat you sound happy enough that s fairly much all that matters right christ is not a kind of drug drugs are a replacement for christ erh pardon but it strikes me that sentence sounds reversible those who have an empty spot in the god shaped hole in their hearts must do something to ease the pain empty spot god shaped hole i hear such things a lot from theists never quite did understand what they were talking about i have no such emptiness or hole maybe some others do i wouldn t know but i don t and if i did i d seek help about it doesn t sound like a mentally healthy situation at all walking around with a hole in oneself thank you eric for your post it has helped me to appreciate how much god has blessed me i hope that you will someday have a more joy filled and abundant life well not having written that original post i don t know if it was intended to be interpreted in such a way but having reread it carefully i somewhat doubt it at least that s not how he gets across to me your mileage may vary disclaimer it s great to be young and insane
