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4thTimeLucky I hear you loud and clear man. I too grew up in fairly religious family and I always wanted to believe in God. However, even since I was little, 6 maybe, I have always questioned everything. This has lead me to reject almost everything that I was brought up to believe was true. I sometimes long for the innocence of my youth and would be willing to do almost anything to return to that time. But the fact is that ultimatly I know that I wouldnt be happy. I could never give up my questioning and believe anything dogmatically enough to make it work.
Pascal's wager? I tried that once, even went so far as to become a theology student, but I still had to many questions and they eventually told me that unless I could just shut up and accept what they were saying on 'faith' then maybe I should find a different line of work. So now Im a student of philosophy. As John Stuart Mill said, given the choice between being the happy ignorant fool or the disatisfied Socrates, most men (and woman) wil chose the later.l
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