Over on AR15.com, someone asked a series of questions of those of us who are non-believers (and if you have to ask "Non-believers of what?" where have you been the last couple of decades?). Sort of an eight-question quiz of the type that have been so, um, popular around the blogosphere of late.
Here are his questions (in bold) and my responses (in grey):
Our initial kickoff to the USA was the Declaration which says;Your thoughts?
"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"
*If you do not believe in such a Creator, how can you lay claim to any such unalienable rights as listed in the BOR.I disagree with the source, not the rights.If you do not believe in a Creator, how can you sing America the beautiful, Or the National Anthem? How do you pledge "one Nation under God"?I sing them off-key, and I pledge "to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The "under God" part was added after the fact, and I ignore it.Do you think all this was an accident?I think it just is, and very well could be the confluence of multiple unlikely conditions, but given the vastness of the universe I don't find the odds all that daunting.Do you think that miracles are impossible and things are a coincidence?I think that "miracles" are what you call high-improbability events, not "acts of God."Do you not think there is any higher power?Higher than what, exactly? Ever seen a quasar? Now THAT's power.What do you believe in?I believe that human beings can accomplish whatever they set out to do.Who/what do you turn to when things seem out of control?Me, first. Family if necessary. But mostly I'm quite aware that I'm not in "control" - I'm along for the ride, and I can somewhat guide the path, but caca pasa and I deal with it when it does.What do you think happens after death?I honestly don't know. Soon enough I'll find out. I like to think that whatever it is that makes me "me" will continue on, or come back and be recycled, but there's no evidence of this that I accept as factual. As far as I can tell, when I'm gone all that will remain of me is the memories I leave in the minds of others, and the things that I have accomplished in my time here. (I have no offspring, nor do I plan to have any.) I'm quite OK with that.
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