tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356277961656468139.post2485219718643231402..comments2023-07-05T00:47:47.466-05:00Comments on The Freedom of Nonbelief: How I discovered I was an AtheistTimothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356277961656468139.post-22742048661663751772012-03-22T22:36:19.103-05:002012-03-22T22:36:19.103-05:00Thanks to your commenting on Greta Christina, I fo...Thanks to your commenting on Greta Christina, I found your blog and I like it. It's now included on my favorites list.<br /><br />I have a blog also (http://theageofreason--21stcentury.blogspot.com/) and would like it if you would put up a link to it along with the others. I refer to other blogs and encourage people to go to them but I have a bit to learn yet about linking. Eventually, I'll get there.Allen C. Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06615706118359802452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356277961656468139.post-24795780312591751112012-03-20T09:41:42.224-05:002012-03-20T09:41:42.224-05:00I discovered what I have called god even earlier t...I discovered what I have called god even earlier than you did, Tim. At about age six, I started going to church (no, I know god and church are not the same) and in a somewhat similar fashion--it sort of came to me.Sans logic. Somehow I've been able to separate in my own gut those things that are based in what we humans call logic with those things we call emotions. It's very personal and I make no attempt to defend it or attack those who believe differently.<br /><br />I need to believe there is some force beyond me,called by whatever name, in order to help me to transcend my ego. I like zen for this reason. And, in western world the quakers.<br /><br />I think the traditional Chinese have it right: one "religion" for the young, another transformative "religion" as one grows older that refutes the one you had as a youngster.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18221726639921622594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356277961656468139.post-63927090809951630782012-03-19T17:16:24.373-05:002012-03-19T17:16:24.373-05:00My road to Atheism was a lot more complicated and ...My road to Atheism was a lot more complicated and happened much later in life. If only it had happened at a much younger age like yourself, then I wouldn't have spent all those years beseeching an empty sky and trying to be someone I wasn't, all because of the dictates of a book of mythology and Chinese Whispers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com