Hey, guess what! Some people don't believe in ***!

[Outlaw2747]

I am an atheist. Proud to be one. Just like Muslims are proud of Islam. Christians are proud of their ***. I just choose not to go with religion because it is not my thing. I have somewhat harsh views about religion I will admit but I try to keep an open mind. Sometimes religion is all a person has. It gives them strength and hope. Sometimes a prayer is what gets some people though hard times. Sometimes that is how someone was brought up. As long as it is not used to start wars, or to convert unwilling people, religion is acceptable. A few verses such as "One nation under ***." is not offensive. It isn't exactly shoved in anyone's face and it isn't threatening anyone. At the same time, some people just don't want to deal with *** and that is understandable. Some people want NOTHING to do with any religious figure. The thing that most atheists fail to realize is that there are alot more theists than atheists and thus we will be exposed to them whether we like it or not.

We just have to learn that we may not follow a religion, but at least show respect to those people who follow it. We are all still people. As for the religious, they need to learn that not everyone is going to follow their views and beliefs. As long as we all know what line to not cross, we can all coexist without any type of religious animosity between ourselves.

 

[papabryant]

I have got news for you. Everyone believes in *** (or gods) ... see the following definition:
[n] a material effigy that is worshipped as a ***; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his ***"


[n] any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force


[n] the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions


[n] a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people; "he was a *** among men"

Unless you are completely void of any beliefs at all, you believe in something that is a ***.

A better way to put it is "everyone has something that functions in a ***-like role for them". For most atheists it is a belief in the perfectability of man through reason. For others it is money, for still others it is a ideal of freedom from imagined religious oppression.

In this way, their "***" is something bigger than themselves to which ultimate allegiance is owed. And it becomes a religion because of the formation of criteria of belief (no supernatural ***, man's perfectability by reason, society should be ordered by reason only, etc.) - which by definition is "dogma".

 

[8 mecos]

I am shocked at how many people really have no idea that there are people out there that can actually believe there is no ***. I was talking to a group of people today and one woman actually said "Well, everyone believes in SOME kind of ***..." She had apparently never even heard of the term atheist or agnostic. When I brought up the terms, apparently I was the only one in the group that knew what agnostic meant.
I am starting to get really ****** off at how much things are oriented to those who do have some sort of religious affiliation, Christianity inparticular.

Just because a large portion of the world has deluded themselves into believing in one of of the thousands of different types of gods out there does not mean that everyone does. The more I study this stuff the more frustrated I get. Now I understand why some of the atheists I know online are so angry all the time. lol

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hey it's like being Gay or a Liberal democrat, or that you like classical music " you can't handle the truth ' that's why they voted for King George>>> dumb people can't bare to tell the King that he's naked. Kind like yer MOM she so good at lying to herself < just don't tell them > " oh my you're not like us ?"

 


yeah that 's right honey get over it>> shut and pour another glass of merlot . Just another case of suburban robots monitering reality, but not living it !!