I have respect for whatever people believe in life as long as they aren't hurting or killing people. Life is very hard to survive at all I have found, especially growing up in the 1950s. I found people fairly racist in a way that might shock people today who are so PC.
But, it wasn't at all the way people think. It wasn't just racism between the races, it was also racism nationally as well. So, if you were from another nation you had problems in the 1950s if you were of a different race often you had problems in the 1950s. If you were a women or gay you had problems in the 1950s. But, that didn't mean it was great to be a white male in the 1950s either. The pressures on everyone caused many many people to short circuit either psychologically or physically or both.
It might be hard for people to imagine what it was like growing up in the 1950s being a child and being told I was going to die in a nuclear war with nuclear weapons going off all around me and watching everyone blow up or melt. And then they had us watch gruesome stuff about World War II with piles of dead bodies 25 to 50 feet high all dead and things like this, especially at places like concentration camps or on battlefields. They showed us mangled dead bodies a lot in school from World war I and II and the Korean War as I was growing up so that was pretty traumatic too. Finding out that 20 million Russians died in World War II mostly from STarvation was pretty horrific too, especially because the U.S. only lose just over 400,000 of our own troops (even though that doesn't include American Civilians in foreign lands.
I guess the point of this article is that whatever people believe after the mess of the 1950s I had respect for. Seeing all the soldiers from World war II with various kinds of PTSD and suicidal or homicidal or both when they returned from the war was pretty horrific to witness. After about 1960 it wasn't as bad because most of the craziest ones had already either killed one or more of their families or they had killed themselves or the police had had to shoot them or something. But, PTSD from World War II was much much worse than anything you have seen from the Viet Nam war or anything since.
So, from my point of view, any way people can have enough peace in their lives not to kill themselves or others might be a good thing after what I have witnessed first hand so far in my life. It's not really about whether someone believes in God or not it's about whether they are going to kill themselves or others or not.
That's really the point I'm trying to make here. People have to find a peaceful way forward to not kill themselves or others and this is much harder than you might think at this point in your lives.
By God's Grace
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