I am at peace with myself. I feel loved and I do love.
You can argue that the love I hold is different than that held by Christians. Fair enough, but the love I hold is genuine - and if anyone paints the love held by atheists to be meaningless, unhappy, unfulfilled, or unwarranted, know they are wrong.
Far too often, Christians preach that one can not love without first loving God. The create this image that love is impossible to obtain - in general. When atheists point out that they are loved and they do love, they often change their tone, "We're referring to a different kind of love". If that's true, then let's not make atheism look to be something in which one lives a miserable, unhappy, life.
Thank you for that answer, and so then you are well and I am elated over this. Love is this pure as I see it:
[h=3]1 Corinthians 13:4-13[/h]New International Version (NIV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [SUP]5 [/SUP]It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [SUP]6 [/SUP]Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [SUP]7 [/SUP]It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. [SUP]9 [/SUP]For we know in part and we prophesy in part, [SUP]10 [/SUP]but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. [SUP]11 [/SUP]When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. [SUP]12 [/SUP]For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
When one has this type of love, then one has the creator of all.
What I see you and others are against is the hypocrisy of many acclaimed Christian, that you see clearly out for themselves, I see it too and have been it in the past, no more I pray no more
How can anyone claim it if they do not live it as this verse here clearly shows it:
[h=3]Luke 6:32[/h]New International Version (NIV)
[SUP]32 [/SUP]“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
This includes all groups, that segregate as in all over in Christendom. So you know them by their fruits
I see as well