Parksie...

So you changed your view when you lost faith (ie No longer believed WITHOUT evidence)

I find this interesting... It indicates that those who do believe via faith continue to do so for as long as they can maintain the ability to ignore things and belief because they "choose" to... and that when a point comes when they actually see and accept evidence they "lose faith" and stop believing.

In my opinion this is the crux of the problem with religion in that it survives purely on the act of "faith" and by making it a virtue to accept something without any possible or feasible reason to do so.


If I wanted to brainwash people into doing what I wanted then I would set it up exactly the same as a religion in making it bad to do anything other than what I wanted... make it a sin to question, to seek evidence, or to do anything but blindly believe. I would then make a nemesis that I can blame for everything that is wrong and place all true indications of validation beyond the reach of everyone so that I could never be proved wrong.


The fact that Christianity itself uses all of these principles is to me glaringly obvious as to its intentions... Of course those already "brainwashed" don't see it that way because they have been trained (or allowed themselves to be trained ala hypnotism) not to see it.

But that is just me clarifying why I have the opinions I do, and providing some background information on how I see things