Atheism

I was reading a Korean web novel. It was comedy smut tower climbing thing. I picked it up because the pliy sounded ridiculous and I wanted something stupid to read.

There was a mission about resolving a religious war. The main character somehow tricked both sides into thinking they were the decended god.

Both sides worshipped the same god. Dialects and translations changed the name and nobody compared the books because one side was a bunch of fanatics that took the teachings extremely literally. Including something like 99 commandments.

At the very end she blew my mind with some BS they spat about they love all of humanity because everyone is flawed. The commandments are there so you know how flawed you are. They don't force faith because that's not freedom.

I think that's how it should be. I believe in freedom of religion. Anything that brings you peace and makes you a better person.

The issue is always when faith is used to sin. Enforcing your beliefs on others, infringing on thier freedom, taking money/assets. The list goes on.

I'm not an atheist. I'm agnostic.

Yes, when you grow up you worship Sol the sun god.

My journey was:

Wait, there's a ton of religions, most of which think that they're the ones with the one immutable truth?

Then none of them are right, or it would be obvious.

I still spent years with Christian apologia and god-in-the-gaps nonsense but at least my personal moral and religious development was rooted in doubt rather than faith.

Somehow both of my parents were disappointed in my atheism.

Wait... What was the worship of rocks called?

This is why I worship the Sun. It's actually there and is provably responsible for all life.

they left out people killing each other over disagreements about which people who claim to have come from the sky are the "real" people who came from the sky, and which of their descendants are "real" descendants of those people.

religion is so fucking stupid

I want to point out another stage: Sexy Post-Religion

I'm still on step 2. My magic animals demand I feed them.

And then "people in the sky but further away" followed by "people from another dimension"

Bottom left corner people are literally astronauts.

All these clankers still worship magic rocks.

Naw, now we’ve cut out the middleman and worship people directly. :(