Everyone has their own ways of thinking and believing. Once you start to get rid of the labels — agnostic, atheist and believer — you can really listen to other

Everyone has their own ways of thinking and believing. Once you start to get rid of the labels — agnostic, atheist and believer — you can really listen to others. I’ve met far too many people who called themselves one way and later understood how unfitting was such label to their assumptions. Unfortunately, the quest for the true nature of the universe has been reduced to Scriptures and the yes/no question "Do you believe in God?". The human mind is biased toward dualism, so it feels natural to talk about something as a competition of two mutually exclusive arguments. Another issue I have with belief == religion is merging morality and the Truth. Religion delivers both in one convenient package. However, they are not necessarily bundled together. I love Jesus Christ's teachings but I'm not Christian. Truth is, many of our predecessors treated religion with much more self-inquiry than strict believers do today. Biblical literalism was not a given. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism