Atheists & Agnostics

and the saying that "Love is blind." Never quite made it to the atheist/agnostic phase of belief, but if God is love and/or "If God so loved the world..." as Christians learned -- I came to a conclusion there's a vast difference between parental Duty and supportive godly Love. Love in human terms is truly a mixed message that was designed to interfere with good human behaviors because of that limbic system of ours, that "free will" part of our humanity--our emotional perceptions and expectations, our daydreams and our fantasies--leading to some of our behaviors, both for better and/or for worse.

There are many dysfunctional families due to religious beliefs leading, I believe, to mental illnesses of disturbed process and personality in which parents don't guide and support but certainly play out their god-like "duties" without love and with much judgement(s). I think their own childhood traumas and failures often foster continuous fear(s), fight or flight, projection(s), etc, as failures of their perceptions and expectations...Balancing what we did do in "that moment" and/or going forward after that type of upbringing with or without the forgiveness of love is damn hard work! In the end, all we can do is to live with ourselves in faith in our beliefs and love or give them up, so be careful what you, a human not a god, believe or don't, ask for/receive, and/or promise.