I agree that yes, at times there are
those that "lose" their faith out of convenience rather than out of a true lack
of belief. Although you must not go so far as to define happiness for the
ceteri. Not all of us subscribe to one universal idea of a definition of
"happiness vs. pleasure." Or satisfaction, because satisfaction and comfort may
be one thing for one man and be hell to an other (I believe that Jim has already
touched on this, so I'm not going to go too deeply in to
it).
'Tis a very true observation that
many claiming to be atheist are actually quite religious, and as a matter of
course this works vice versa, but I hope that you're not subtly accusing me of
still having any religious "sympathies." I don't hate religion, but neither do I
like it, I just doubt it. I think that most atheists are like that - we don't
particularly care what religion (or lack thereof) that you are, just as long as
you don't try to convert us to it. But you spoke words of high truth when you
said that none are objective enough to judge themselves fairly. And that we
might be professing the loss of something that was never there, or the gain of
that which was already present within ourselves.
On a completely different note, it
really is not necessary to send these messages in "episodes." Texas forbid that
you should pull a George Lucas on us and make a "Lost Faith Episode 1: The
Atheist Menace"...lol! The only reason that you had to partition your first long
email was that you had left the message to which you were replying at the
bottom, which effectively doubled the length of your message. So in the future
when you write a long message you can just delete the original to which you are
responding. Your "Lost Faith Trilogy" could have easily fit in to one message,
which probably would have been more convenient on you anyway.
Well, do widzenia for
now.
Jackson Wade Crawford -
The Raven of Texas/ Corvvs Texanis/ Kruk Teksasu
International Director,
Corvist Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Free Will