Tuesday, March 17, 2009

What I believe and what I don't.

Hello again.

It's been a while without a post, and I think this one serves as an interesting enough one to last another few months.

Today, at Uni, I was sitting talking to a Christian friend of mine (hello Isaac if you are reading this), and there came a man from the 'student life' group, a conglomeration of the many of the vast number of Christians who study at USQ (my uni). He walked up to us, sat down next to me, introduced himself, and after talking to Isaac for a period of time, turned his attention to me. After asking me what my beliefs were, and asking me what I thought a Christian was (both of which I answered rather tentatively as I didn't want to offend), he proceeded to list his beliefs. Then asked me if I wanted to join his group and/or attend the 'Christianity explained' course. I politely refused his offer, rather than telling him where to stick his illogical, superstitious beliefs, because I didn't want to be rude.

Unfortunately he caught me rather off guard, and I erred on the side of caution, so as to be not rude, and unfortunately didn't debate the point much at all. This evening, however, in my boredom, I created a list of my own beliefs (as well as some things I don't believe), so that if faced with a similar situation I may be able to recall some of these points (or alternatively link him/her to this post).

So here they are (I'm not sorry if you are offended, as these are not offensive and if you think they are you are probably a gimboid):

  • I believe in the Scientific Method.
  • I believe in evidence.
  • I believe in logic.
  • I believe in Occam's Razor.
  • I believe in evolution.
  • I believe in the Big Bang.
  • I believe that the Earth is a Giant sphere of rock, that orbits around an even larger ball of gas, which itself revolves around a large cluster of large balls of gas.
  • I believe that when I die, I will decompose.
  • I believe that there is "no hell below us, above us only sky".
  • I believe that I only have one life, and thus I don't want to waste it.
  • I believe in freedom of thought, speech, and beliefs.
  • I believe in gender equality.
  • I believe in sexual freedom.
  • I believe in choice, on multiple levels.
  • I believe in mathematics.
  • I believe in the separation of church and state.
  • I don't believe in a cruel, vindictive, violent, petty, arrogant, illogical deity.
  • I don't believe in any other deities, be they ultra-powerful men, ultra-powerful spaghetti, or teapots that are not where they are supposed to be.
  • I don't believe that the threat of such deities should be used to control (and/or to make money out of) the population.
  • I don't believe that such a disbelieve should lead me to be killed, attacked, pitied, or 'saved'.
  • I don't believe in slavery.
  • I don't believe that life is just something to be endured on the way to something better.
  • I don't believe in torture.
  • I don't believe in indoctrinating children into a potentially harmful set of beliefs.
This list is not exhaustive, I wrote it in a relatively short space of time. If you have any comments, or additions I may add them (if I agree with them). Once again, if you are offended, you are probably taking this to seriously.

Goodbye again.
Tim

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