cartoonmayhem @ 08:47 pm: A Nugget
Those who would choose atheism over faith have to realise: Atheism IS a faith. A belief that there are no Gods. It is very much as dogmatic as fundamentalist religion and thus subject to the opinions of people trying to make sense of their world.
I have been an atheist and I choose faith over atheism because I believe there are Gods and we have souls that live on after our bodies have passed into history.
But this is my belief. What is yours?
I do believe that there are gods, more than just ours. Do I worship the others, no, but that doesn't deny their presence. I believe that we have souls or at least some "thing" that lives on when we are gone. Exactly what that "thing" is, I can't say but it's there. I think that a part of us can move on and become part of those that follow us. I don't think we pick up stray bits and pieces of folk other than our own line but that it stays in the blood line somewhere.
I was never an athiest, I've always believed that there was at least a nebulous something out there. Now that I'm heathen, I'm more sure of what that thing or things are.