-Removed-You think you noticed. I've been busy for the last 5 hours. I just saw that thread. Maybe, if I find it interesting enough, I'll make a post.
"...you are just following what’s been drilled into to you."
Another misperception. I'm following what the scriptures teach.
Try it sometime. Maybe then you wouldn't be so full of fear of the reality of God's wrath, which is sure to come on a Christ rejecting world.
@fmf saidThis second part I did not think was so pertinent to the quote, but I guess I can kind of see it now that I think about it more.
Sorry, I am not really interested in what you are talking about.
I am interested in how the quote applies to things like ideology and religious belief.
Personally, when it comes to a belief in supernatural beings, supernatural phenomena and supernatural causality, I don't think people can use their mind to decide to believe in them if they do not find them credible, just as ...[text shortened]... ion/religiosity work. Edit: ...nor is how it works with a lack of religious belief, for that matter.
You are suggesting that we can 'free' ourselves from superstition by not allowing superstition to dominate our mind, correct? Something like that?
But at the same time you are almost sympathetic with the theistic side of the discussion because you imply that one cannot help but be X or Y on this issue, but it also seems to be a bit muddier because there seems to have been some kind of transition into atheism for you.
Perhaps you'd like to elaborate a bit more as I am not quite all the way there.