While this is clearly trolling, I think that it has the potential to make for an interesting discussion between the religious and the atheistic. I remember when my secular-minded peers used to ask me why I'm religious, and I'd often respond it's because while every fiber of my mind tells me to be an atheist, every fiber of my heart tells me to be religious. Is it weakness and fear? Maybe. But even if I shun the heart and adhere solely to the mind, I can't shake the hypocrisy of faith. Just as religions are the products of their times, so is atheism and the overall ideals of the Enlightenment. Unfortunately I know this all too well as an English major, and it can be depressing as it makes you skeptical of virtually all knowledge. You can't help but see everything as the inevitable product of its times. And just as the religious are arrogant enough to have faith that their religion is correct--that somehow all of the historical, literary, cultural, and other factors that led to the development of their religion happened to produce a *true* religion--you start to feel the same way about knowledge itself, even atheism and reason itself. We rely on the axiomatic principles that the universe is fathomable by the human mind, that what we perceive via the five senses is in fact reality and not just an optical illusion (filmmakers are the masters of this. With the proper camera angling, a diorama the size of a shoe box can resemble a full-sized city), and that the laws of logic which underlie all quests for knowledge are actually true and always will be. That said, I have trouble identifying with any worldview. I consider myself religious as Eastern Orthodox simply because I think it's much more logical than Western Christianity and my heart tells me to go for it. But I find myself very sympathetic toward atheism, to the extent that I would defend it religiously (pun not intended) against the Western Christianity which gave birth to it. Overall, I don't think I can ever adhere to any position with total certainty, be it religion or atheism. I think when it all comes down to it, everything is just a product of its times, built upon unsubstantiated axioms, and can be seen as the inevitable product of history. Even my own pessimistic viewpoint, as painful as it is to admit. I'm probably just as much a product of my times as the staunchly religious and fiercely atheistic. I imagine that the English majors of the future will look back and see how my times, history, and culture shaped and produced the views I hold today.

Im agnostic [spoiler][b]BIATCH !!!![/b][/spoiler]

Because why not. I don't need to believe in a god to know how much I love the arts, music, history, and so on. I'm not a religious person not because of the things they believe in. But because of all the death surrounded by each religion. Tell me if this sounds familiar. "We must conquer this land in the name of god!" It should sound familiar because that's what has been happening for thousands and thousands of year. Many wars has happened because of religion. Yes many has been because of other reasons. That still does not deny the fact that many more people died because of a stupid cause as believing in one god over the other. I'm not religious or even care for religion or the beliefs because of that. I don't care if the world happened naturally or just proofed into existence. All that matters to me. Is now. What we have today. The wonders of the recent past, and the promise of the near future. And I don't need a thing that only speculates on "how all things came into existance" to enjoy the world we have today.

This is so poorly done.

I lost brain cells reading this shitpost. Why do I still click them. I'm going to be a vegetable real soon.