Dixie - In Memoriam
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Based on my own personal experience Atheist can't be judge by their appearance on an anonymous board. The ones I have met in life are very well adjusted, but maybe I just attract those kinds of people. You mirror your friends, like attracts like.
If god is God then she will not care what I believe, God is above all our trivialities in my belief. Why would such a being or force care what a mere human thinks of God? I don't care what a gnat feels about me, whether it likes me or not...and if you look at God as the parental type, then she will forgive me because I am her child and she must not have done a good enough job of teaching me...she didn't give me the information I needed to form a valid conclusion of her being. Why the mystery, why doesn't she just tell us, why do we need faith? It is all human invention.
I'm only judging responses from people who claim to be Atheist, I am not judging them personally, I don't know them. I also didn't mean to imply that Atheists are generally not fun people to hang out with or be around, I am sorry if you took it that way. In fact, Atheists are some of the most fun, because they have no parameters for decadence and self-indulgence. When I said "unhappy, unfulfilled, searching" I wasn't talking about their outward persona, but their innermost feelings and thoughts.
I can't answer about why people need faith, I don't understand it myself. My personal relationship with what I refer to as God, is not dictated by faith, I am acutely aware of the presence in my everyday life, so there is no 'faith' required by me, it is a forthright knowledge and understanding. As I compared before, to your knowledge and understanding of your mother. Do you need faith to understand your mother is/was real?