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Atheists: Come out, come out, wherever you are
Shuggy:
I've added some goods I'm rather proud of to my anti-theist collection, with this image. They're at http://www.cafepress.com/wero/1649800
stevenedel:
Shuggy, that's marvellous and just about nails it! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Let's mail it out to every fundamentalist in the world!
Actually, I was a VERY devout little catholic up until ages 16 or 17 (served as an acolyte in the convent down my parent's street for many years), and believed in just about everything spooky and paranormal for a few years after that. Then, one day, a professor at my college organized a debate between skeptics and several mediums and faith healers, where the scientists all but wiped the floor with the paranormal people, and I was instantly cured. I have become increasingly convinced that organized religion is one of the most consistent sources of hatred, intolerance and war throughout human history, and that peace will probably be impossible as long as it exists. Well, just take a glance at the Middle East today...
And now that Mr. Bush, against the will of a democratic majority, has vetoed federal funding for stem cell research, theocratic dictatorship shows its undisguised face in the US, too. VERY worrying.
Impish:
Stevenedel:
I'm with you 100%! I was raised Episcopalian and was a choir boy for many years, and so I also "woke up" from a religious background.
If you enjoy listening to podcasts, there's a wonderful one called "Point of Inquiry" that how science views both religion and the paranormal. You can find it at the iTunes Music Store. Highly recommended. ;D
Impish
Impish:
--- Quote from: Shuggy on July 23, 2006, 06:16:06 am ---I've added some goods I'm rather proud of to my anti-theist collection, with this image. They're at http://www.cafepress.com/wero/1649800
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That's a great shirt Shuggy! Although I must say it's tempting to worship Priapus! ::)
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Impish on July 23, 2006, 09:54:58 am ---That's a great shirt Shuggy! Although I must say it's tempting to worship Priapus! ::)
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Guys! ::)
--- Quote ---Even today, fundamentalists attempt to use facts of reality to demonstrate the existence of God, so not all not all religious people base their belief purely on "spiritual" phenomena or faith alone.
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Texrob is correct. The main drive behind Christianity - why believers think it is better than any other religion - is that they believe it is a factual religion. That Jesus was actually the son of god, that he came to earth as a real man, is a historical figure, etc., etc., so that makes Christianity a 'real' religion as opposed to - as a Born Again friend one time told me - all those 'made up' religions.
However, sadly for them, if they do do an objective study of the Christian religion, they will find it no more based in 'fact' than any other religion.
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