This rings so true. For years I’ve celebrated passover, without really considering what happened, or even if it was true. I’m glad my family is liberal enough, and I didn’t ONLY rehearse the strong points, but it was interesting for me at the time how the creation myth uncannily fit in with the Big Bang theory.
That said, I was permitted to not only doubt, but not even have to defend. I just didn’t follow my thoughts through. “Considering all this, is there any reason to actually worship a God, if that exists, which is unlikely? Moreso- oooh, youtube video giving a simple enough explanation to quantum physics that even I can understand it! I’ll think things through later.” and never actually arriving at the conclusion.
Judaism has, to me, still seemed most open and accepting of questioning. The philosophies are certainly interesting, and continue to affect me now—the core of “question everything” that I strive to follow originated from Judaism. Well, for me anyway. The lesswrong community has helped me even further, though. I still consider, if you are to believe in something before you become atheist—as in, a logical threshold you need to cross to become logical, Judaism has the lowest.
I’m not quite sure what there is to add to this, though. There is nothing more to add, in my opinion. Insightful.
This rings so true. For years I’ve celebrated passover, without really considering what happened, or even if it was true. I’m glad my family is liberal enough, and I didn’t ONLY rehearse the strong points, but it was interesting for me at the time how the creation myth uncannily fit in with the Big Bang theory.
That said, I was permitted to not only doubt, but not even have to defend. I just didn’t follow my thoughts through. “Considering all this, is there any reason to actually worship a God, if that exists, which is unlikely? Moreso- oooh, youtube video giving a simple enough explanation to quantum physics that even I can understand it! I’ll think things through later.” and never actually arriving at the conclusion.
Judaism has, to me, still seemed most open and accepting of questioning. The philosophies are certainly interesting, and continue to affect me now—the core of “question everything” that I strive to follow originated from Judaism. Well, for me anyway. The lesswrong community has helped me even further, though. I still consider, if you are to believe in something before you become atheist—as in, a logical threshold you need to cross to become logical, Judaism has the lowest.
I’m not quite sure what there is to add to this, though. There is nothing more to add, in my opinion. Insightful.