Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "UsefulCharts" channel.

@bingounna You might find the following to be of interest … From the book … The Atheist Muslim ... author ... Ali A. Rizvi. I was about twelve when I met my first real-life atheist. He was the new kid in school and sat next to me in class, so we quickly became friends. His family had moved to Riyadh from Sweden for his father's work. One day, as we were learning about the different religions of the world in class, I asked him what religion he was. "I don't know," he said. "You don't know?" I asked. "How could you not know what religion you are?" "I don't think I have a religion." "What about your parents? What do they believe?" "I don't know. We've never talked about it." "Are you guys Christian?" He laughed. "Oh no, definitely not." "Do your mom and dad believe in God?" "No, No God, no religion." I remember being shocked. Not just because he didn't what religion he was, or if he even had a religion, but because he was responding like he'd never even thought about it. I could tell that no one had ever asked him these questions before. It was as if they were irrelevant. If we'd been a little older, I might have asked him where he thought we all came from, or whether he'd ever wondered who created the universe. But at that point, there was one thing I was more curious about than anything else. "So does that mean you can do anything?" I asked. "What do you mean?" "Like steal, kill people, bad stuff like that?" "No." "Why? You don't believe in God." I remember him being confused by my line of questioning. And I was just as confused that he didn't understand what he was getting at. "Well, we don't do bad things because it's illegal. And you shouldn't do bad things." "What do your parents tell you so you wouldn't do bad things?" I asked. "They say, 'How would like it if someone did it to you? "I thought about our conversation a lot , for many years afterward. I started noticing my own actions very consciously, as if I'd stepped out of my body and was watching myself.
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LOL
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@1959Berre lol
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All religious stories were based on myth. So the question should be ... "Do myths exist?"
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@bingounna If we were born Muslims, we would think that Allah gave us absolute truth in the Quran. We were and are, indoctrinated by the standards of the cultures that convinced us that they knew the one and only spiritual truth. It's all bunkology.
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@jamessimpson422 Do you think I would twist meanings in the bible, if I were to say that your soul will be saved for eternal bliss, while my soul will suffer eternal damnation? You "know" that devotees always cherry pick words in the bible to suit their own egos. Cults ... one and all.
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@jamessimpson422 I suggest that it is best for one’s ego, to realize that self is not the first one to be filled with pride in the idea that the self and “God” have the same way of “thinking.” From the book … 40 YEARS OF COUNTRY: LIFE OF A RURAL DOCTOR IN NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN … author … Dr Mervin L Johnson During this time, Blanche and I found out from the Alliance Church Board that they did not want Blanche to teach in church any longer. She was an excellent teacher and really was being led by God, but they were afraid of what they’re hearing. I wrote in my diary, why is the Board destroying the work in this church? God do something I pleaded. Not for our sake but for Yours.
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@shadrachemmanuel1720 I'm an Atheist.
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@shadrachemmanuel1720 There are now hundreds of ex members of clergy that have joined The Clergy Project, to find employment elsewhere. From Apostle to Apostate: The Story of the Clergy Project … authors … Catherine Dunphy, Richard Dawkins The word that leaps off the page in this quote is Mary Daly’s use of the word “myth.” Reading her book in conjunction with exegetical analysis of the Old and New Testaments cemented the reality that I had ignored: this “holy book” was a fabrication, a cultural narrative that only truly reflected the mores and values of the people who wrote it. As such, it is a wholly inadequate resource for humanity in the twenty-first century. Once that realization sunk in, I acknowledged that I was architect of this thing or idea that I called God.
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As a person of religion ... you can believe that humans have souls that fly away to be rewarded with eternal bliss ... or fly away to be punished by a judge-mental creator ... or you can believe that just as there isn't any afterlife for other animals, there also isn't any afterlife for human animals. Having once believed in the existence of a god, I now believe that the universe always existed, and that consciousness always existed … no creator involved … and that suffering of all forms of life … is natural.
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All religious stories were based on myth. So the question should be ... "Do myths exist?"
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@Lazymotion I agree! You can also imagine that Moses was a real man ... or ... was nothing other than a character in a book, as was Mother Goose ... or ... Santa Claus ... or ... Goldilocks ... or ... Cinderella.
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Men wrote all books that they then labeled as being holy information from the gods. Simple-minded nonsense. “We are all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.” Anil Seth … neuroscientist.
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