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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I have just *never* found religion useful. I have read the bible and I have gone to church. I have studied the new and old testament in University and spent time looking into other religions (from Mormons to Buddhist and back again). Some of them have some interesting ideas about how to live life but I could never get over their basic tenets of higher powers, afterlife, etc.
I might as well believe in fairies down in the garden...
I just cannot live my life based on a fiction. This may seem counterproductive to you but to me it's all I've got.
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That's cool. I'm just curious.
Once upon a time in America though, circa the late 60s, rumor has it that it was the progressive liberals who were dropping all the acid and smoking all the Maui Wauwi - tuning out conservatism and the war, and tuning into the "cosmic consciousness" and transcendental grooviness of the universe, Hari Krishnas dancing in the streets and passing out religious literature - it was a veritable hippy revolution of religion and spirituality! And what about spirituality in the arts nowadays? Do we realize that great art can no longer be taken seriously because of you atheists? That there is no longer a spiritual component to a great Matisse or Chagall due to excessive religious overtone?
Perhaps this isn't our father's America (or Canadastan) anymore.
