Introducing Largo
Offline Hello everyone! My username is Largo (a contraction of my first and last names: Larry Gott). On YouTube I'm Largo64 . I started questioning my Christian upbringing when I was about 14, but thought of myself for a long time as a Christian with questions. By the time I was 30, I finally was able to use the word "agnostic" applied to myself. I'm still not comfortable with the word "athiest" as applied to me, not because I think there is anything wrong with it, but because I really think it requires a certainty I don't feel. In my opinion the existance of an infinite being is unknowable to a finite mind. This is the approach that both Ingersoll and Russell took, and it seems to me adequate for myself. With Russell, though, I think the idea of a god is so unlikely that I am much more comfortable with atheists than I am with theists. Hence my coming to this site. I have written a few skeptical essays and just snippets of thought on religion, and I hope I might share them here and get responses from others as to whether or not I have made my points.
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Welcome. You might want to read up on some of the stuff here about atheist vs agnostic.
Welcome sir!!
Welcome!
Welcome Largo! I would like to read some of your essays - thanks in advance for sharing them.
Welcome Largo. We're really glad you're here and look forward to your contributions!
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Thanks for that link. I have vascillated for a long time, holding that lacking knowledge was actually closer than it was to lacking belief (or faith). I am completely without faith. And it seems right and rational to say not that I am without belief as well. So, henceforth I shall identify myself an atheist.
I think a lot of the confusion in my mind rose from my anger against the god described in the Bible. I realize now that that anger was misdirected. I have never had any difficulty dismissing all the other gods of history. I've really been angry at the perceived conseuences of the belief in the biblical god born of unreasoned and unreasoning faith. I have been angry at a god which no more exists in reality than Zeus or Horus when I should have directed my ire at the faith that sustains the idea of that god in the minds of so many others.