Are you an atheist? Page 3

Started by GymLeaderMisty November 19th, 2009 4:41 PM
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Aparently if you say your christian a bunch of atheist's get mad at you and well Im bout to test that theory out.

Im christian~
Now lesse who will get angry :3
You Bible-thumping fascist!!!111 >_>

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Aparently if you say your christian a bunch of atheist's get mad at you and well Im bout to test that theory out.

Im christian~
Now lesse who will get angry :3
Apparently if you make sweeping generalizations about a group of people, a bunch of everybody will get mad at you. Including me. Don't generalize. :/
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Apparently if you make sweeping generalizations about a group of people, a bunch of everybody will get mad at you. Including me. Don't generalize. :/
I think he was actually talking about the ones who are openly hostile to religion here, and they do exist. In fact, I've experienced it myself. He wasn't speaking about all atheists, just a group of individuals with contempt for faith. He was more than likely referring to posts like this-
Oh, that silly Pascal, thinking that it is a 50/50 chance. That argument brings logic to its knees.
This is why debates start. Someone says something profoundly stupid and it just snowballs into a flame war.

For one, just because you don't know something doesn't mean that you should make an excuse. Another flawed thing your friend said(hopefully it isn't one of those stories where you are replacing yourself with the friend) is that it takes more faith to not believe in a religion, knowing the plethora of them. That boggles the mind on the level of stupidity. Scientific studies show a very probable way that the Earth may have been formed.

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I'm not an atheist but I know a vegetarian atheist. He always acts like a jerk when I eat meat or say anything about god or something.
Make sure you chew meat extra loud around him. That's what I do around vegetarians (and especially vegans) that try to get in my face about what I eat. If they keep talking, I start moaning and going "Oh man, it's so delicious, mmmm yeah." They usually stop around then.

What kind of jerk tries to impress their crappy moral system on someone else? Just seems like a load of rubbish to me. I hate those kind of people.
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I'm sort of an atheist. Main reason is because there hasn't been one drop of proof of a God by my standards (logical and actually meaning that its true, rather than the it could mean its true "evidence" people try to convince me with). I'm not saying its impossible, it just has nothing to back it up. That's why I'm sort of. The only real definite From what I can see is math, and even that requires variables.

Though I am pretty sure of modern religions being wrong should there be a god or god like entity, especially Christianity. The problem is not only the likeliness of it being true pointed out before, but for the Christians its all the contradictions in the Bible. I mean seriously, how can someone believe in something written many years after the actual event and have multiples stories, some of which don't match? (rhetorical)

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Nope; I believe in God. However, I do not read the Bible nor attend church. A majority of my community/peers have accepted me, as religion is not a big issue around here, although one elderly man was quite disappointed in my laziness. xD

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Nope, I'm a Christian.
Nope; I believe in God. However, I do not read the Bible or attend church. A majority of my community/peers have accepted me, as religion is not a big issue around here, although one elderly man was quite disappointed over my laziness. xD
lol same. Well except for the old man part.
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I think he was actually talking about the ones who are openly hostile to religion here, and they do exist. In fact, I've experienced it myself. He wasn't speaking about all atheists, just a group of individuals with contempt for faith. He was more than likely referring to posts like this
As much as I don't like religion, I don't care about it as long as it doesn't hurt anyone in the process. And of course, when it doesn't create fallacious statements.
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Yeah, I'm an atheist.

I used to be religious, up until I was capable of rational thought (about age 6). Then I y'know...just took a second to recall what it is that my "religion" actually believed in. The magical sky kingdom, the omnipotent cosmical-tyrant, and the 2,000 year old Jewish zombie whose flesh I was expected to symbolically eat each week..lolwut?

Not only the sheer ridiculousness of faith (which is, by definition, belief without evidence), but all the atrocious acts committed by religious groups are what made not only an atheist, but an anti-theist as well.
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Yeah, I'm an atheist.

I used to be religious, up until I was capable of rational thought (about age 6). Then I y'know...just took a second to recall what it is that my "religion" actually believed in. The magical sky kingdom, the omnipotent cosmical-tyrant, and the 2,000 year old Jewish zombie whose flesh I was expected to symbolically eat each week..lolwut?

Not only the sheer ridiculousness of faith (which is, by definition, belief without evidence), but all the atrocious acts committed by religious groups are what made not only an atheist, but an anti-theist as well.
Were you a Catholic? Did your parents force you to go to confirmation?

BTW, that is NOT what Catholics believe. Transubstantiation states that the bread and wine turn into the substance of Jesus' body and blood, while their appearences are merely "accidental." (I am not going to say what I think about that.)

When someone asks for my religion: I just say that I have the same religion as Ash Ketchum and Misty. I do not like to say that I am an atheist.
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When someone asks for my religion: I just say that I have the same religion as Ash Ketchum and Misty. I do not like to say that I am an atheist.
Ash and Misty are atheists? I did not know this.

But yeah, I'm a Roman Catholic. I prefer not to take the Bible at face value, but rather see the common themes that it has with other religions. I find all religions fascinating, and aside from semantics, they preach more or less many of the same things. Multiple stories are re-told in different forms across the world. I see the metaphysical and physical as independent, so you can say that I'm mildly Deist, but I believe in the Holy Trinity and all that jazz. I accept the concepts of evolution and don't believe the Earth is 6,000 years old or anything like that.
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Were you a Catholic? Did your parents force you to go to confirmation?
No, I was never "catholic." When you're that young, you're incapable of belonging to any religious group, really. There's no such thing as a religious child; when you're that young and impressionable, you'll believe whatever your parents/adults tell you to be true, without ever second-guessing it. I was raised catholic, yeah, but I never considered myself to be catholic. If I had jewish parents, I would have been raised jewish; nowhere did I myself make the conscious choice to join a religion.

BTW, that is NOT what Catholics believe. Transubstantiation states that the bread and wine turn in the substance of Jesus' body and blood, while they appearences are merely "accidental." (I am not going to say what I think about that.)
...Wut? So when I used to attend mass when i was younger, and they would make me eat that stale-ass bread, telling me "this is the body of jesus," there was actually some deeper meaning to that? I know (or at least, I'd like to think) that no one goes to church and actually thinks they're consuming the body of a 2,000 year old deity in the form of a cracker, but...again, that's why I threw in the word "symbolically."
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I'm an Aetheist, I usually ignore religion, and sometimes I will show some respect towards it, but if any religion steps outta line I immediately hate that religion, which has led me to hate most religions, except Shinto, I have absolutely nothing against Shinto.

I don't hate people in religions who don't step outta line though, aka, people who know if other people in their religion are taking the religion in the wrong way.

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I believe that there's a greater power at work in the universe. But I do not believe that it especially interested in Mankind, and I do not believe that we should attempt to put a definition on it and say that it tells us to do this-or-that or that this-or-that is wrong.

Too much bloodshed and hatred comes with any organised religion: if "God" wanted us to love one another, we're sure going about it the wrong way.

So yeah, I'm not an Atheist. I count myself as an Agnostic.

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I'm a christian, specifically a Roman Catholic, but my family rarely, if ever, go to church.

Actually, the last time I went to one was back in 2006 when they built a new Catholic church, but we only attended it for a few weeks. :/ I'm thinking of going back to it.

I used to consider myself to be agnostic before going to church, and even early this year I questioned the existence of a deity, but I consider myself to be a Catholic nowadays.
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[/totally not religious]

I believe in God and Jesus, and I believe in a non-bigoted god.
Not the one people make him out to be, saying he will hate you if you're gay or masturbate.

I don't make what's written in the bible my life, I have my own justifacations of what's good or bad.

So yes, God exists to me.

The problem I have with people and religion as a group, are the people who make it thier life and preach night and day about it (I'm not talking priests or rabbis, I mean extremists.) and try to say things are wrong all the time,

"OMG BILLY, WHAT ARE YOU EATING?!"
"A banana?"
"God hates you forever noaw. kk bye."
":C"

I mean, I have athiest friends, and thier religion doesn't bother me one bit, and they don't preach to me about how God doesn't exist. So, it's all good unless your an extremist with me.
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