Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Richard Dawkins on scientific truth, outgrowing God and life beyond Earth" video.
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Richard Dawkins has done the world a favor and for people like myself who have struggled all my life to find out what I actually believe in, all I know is that from listening to Mr Dawkins and many of his illustrious colleagues, it has pushed me to find the tracks of my beliefs that were long ago vanished from the sands of my time in my mind. What I have always felt—or at least as long as I can remember—is that one reason I have never been able to put my life in another’s hands, or lead my life from another’s plan, or believe in someone other than myself is my extreme distrust in putting my fate in anyone or even in a spiritual master or master of the universe’s hands. It’s the most frightening thing I can think of and I have to say it’s because I’ve undoubtedly met so many people who turned out to be untrue, that it has made me into the person I am and—here’s my point on religion. I believe that the spiritual guides like Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha among others are there to help guide someone—and more power to you if you find that believing in Jesus for example, gives your life purpose. But I believe that religion’s spiritual guides were never meant to be holding one’s hand all the way through one’s entire existence. We all outgrow our teachers; otherwise, we’d never make anything of ourselves. And: when you have breathed your last breath and crossed over to the other side of life into death and the afterlife—whatever that turns out to be, you want to have made it on your own. I think we have to believe in ourselves to be whole and the goal of life is to stand on one’s two feet and face whatever comes at you. To go through your whole life reading dubious texts written by a thousand ghost-writers and having that be your roadmap to heaven is like letting a blind person take you by the hand to cross a busy intersection. It’s backwards. It’s an opinion, but I want to thank Mr Dawkins for provoking in my thoughts that have helped and are still helping me define what my purpose is in the world we live in. I firmly believe I’m right in relying only on myself and what I’ve constructed in my mind to define my life and what I’m here on Earth to do. But most of all, I wouldn’t want to make a judgement on somebody else’s belief system. Everyone should have the right to live their life and believe in the things they want to believe in; Richard Dawkins has helped humanity by undoing the knots and logjams that have accumulated throughout the centuries that have made our mindset rigid and locked in belief systems that have long since lived their day.
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