It has been a while since I wrote a personal update on how I am doing. I am doing well with Moms passing, but, of course sometimes I cry which is perfectly normal. I have been having some interesting internal dialogues with myself over acceptance of the fact most people will ave views on the existence of God that I will disagree with. However, one should not mistake my broader understanding of others for myself no longer being an atheist.
I still consider it a delusion and that God is simply a way of dealing with issues we do not want to face like the true end that is our deaths. Yet, I understand that most people compartmentalize their delusion in a way that it is able to pass muster to their rational brain and they are able to live full lives due to secularization of everyday life. It is possible for people to be functional and delusional about the existence God/Supernatural in a way that is different from other delusions. Like thinking you are Napoleon, or God yourself.
Not all delusions are equally dysfunctional for individuals in society and The God Delusion is one of the least debilitating as long as we retain the lessons of the Enlightenment and never waiver on our secular. tolerant society. What needs to be fought is those whom wish to make the world theocratic regardless of which faith the theocrat belongs to.
Born Again Christian; Biblical Fundamentalist, King James Only, Dispensational
