An Artificial Segregation
Today, I felt compelled to register an experience that had me learn about myself and my beliefs.
For the past month, I dated a girl who I came to care about. An unfortunate circumstance dictated that an eventual impasse blocked our way to truly becoming a couple:
She's a Christian, strongly dedicated to her religion and firm in her beliefs, and I a firm atheist, a man of science, of common sense and of logic.
Through this month, I set out in a personal spiritual trek within my mind in search of a compromise and I suspect she did the same.
Ironically, my analytical self expedition made me an even stronger believer in Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection and of how one can truly be happier by opening one's eyes to science as a tool of individual inference and free thinking rather than laying in the blissful ignorance of an established religion. I've experienced both.
I was a God believer from my childhood to a point in my teenage years where I learned the truth through personal conclusions. From that defining moment to this one, I was – for lack of a better word – indifferent. As of this event, I've become a de facto Atheist, proud to let it be known and happy to explain to those willing how I've found in me the power to release myself from the obfuscation and fear of Catholicism.
There was something about this my personal casualty of religion and about our failure as a couple due to what I perceive as a silly artificial segregation of two humans, that sealed the deal for me.
In this personal case, her and I lost what otherwise could have flourished to become something very special.
Her religion eventually won over her desire to be with me and we both concluded that our relationship was not possible.
It's a tragedy that didn't have to occur.
For the past month, I dated a girl who I came to care about. An unfortunate circumstance dictated that an eventual impasse blocked our way to truly becoming a couple:
She's a Christian, strongly dedicated to her religion and firm in her beliefs, and I a firm atheist, a man of science, of common sense and of logic.
Through this month, I set out in a personal spiritual trek within my mind in search of a compromise and I suspect she did the same.
Ironically, my analytical self expedition made me an even stronger believer in Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection and of how one can truly be happier by opening one's eyes to science as a tool of individual inference and free thinking rather than laying in the blissful ignorance of an established religion. I've experienced both.
I was a God believer from my childhood to a point in my teenage years where I learned the truth through personal conclusions. From that defining moment to this one, I was – for lack of a better word – indifferent. As of this event, I've become a de facto Atheist, proud to let it be known and happy to explain to those willing how I've found in me the power to release myself from the obfuscation and fear of Catholicism.
There was something about this my personal casualty of religion and about our failure as a couple due to what I perceive as a silly artificial segregation of two humans, that sealed the deal for me.
In this personal case, her and I lost what otherwise could have flourished to become something very special.
Her religion eventually won over her desire to be with me and we both concluded that our relationship was not possible.
It's a tragedy that didn't have to occur.
posted by iPedro at 7:42 PM
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