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Atheists: Come out, come out, wherever you are
dmmb_Mandy:
--- Quote ---"I Think, Therefore I'm Atheist."
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Whoa! LOL!
Sheyne:
I lost my ability to have "faith" at a very early age. I couldn't believe that good things are possible if you "pray".. To me, you make your own luck. You create your own opportunities.
And the pragmatist in me cannot believe in something unreal or irrational.
I totally believe in Jesus Christ - I believe he walked the earth. I believe he was a great man who had much to teach people. And I also believe that in his death, the story got fucked up by opportunists. ie - i believe Dan Brown's take on this story from "the Da Vinci Code". But all that walking on water shit.. I just can't buy that. I don't and can't believe in it. Its irrational.
And I don't like the idea of signing myself over to a higher power. The whole concept of "faith" has never washed with me.
ednbarby:
Same here, Sheyne. I think I've always been an atheist who was just desperately trying to be a believer so as to fit in. Faith has never washed with me, either. I've never felt that God was really listening when I prayed, and I've never felt anything in any church except foolish. I finally accepted my own atheism in the past year. It took a hurricane (and my countrymen's apathy about it) to do that. The catalyst was a woman from my old neighborhood saying to me in a store a week after Katrina hit and at the height of all those poor people's misery: "I just praise God it was them and not us." I don't think I've ever been so angry in all my life. There it was - clear as day. I kept coming back to the word 'praise' and shaking all the more.
My husband has been an atheist all his life, too. But he's still having trouble being open about it. When it comes right down to it, he still is afraid to rock the boat. I'm not. When churchies ask me where I go to church now, I don't just politely say "I'm not currently attending any church." I say, "I don't go to church. I haven't in a long time." If they pursue it, I tell them why. I used to worry about being insulting. But as Ennis would say, fuck it. Who's being more insulting? Me by being honest, or they by being so arrogant as to assume I believe what they believe and to imply that I should if I don't?
Sign me up for one of them there shirts. Actually, I think I'd like mine to say "Militant Atheist." If that's a tad much, how about "Proud Atheist Since 2005. Atheist Since 1965."
Impish:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 27, 2006, 07:44:10 am ---
Sign me up for one of them there shirts. Actually, I think I'd like mine to say "Militant Atheist." If that's a tad much, how about "Proud Atheist Since 2005. Atheist Since 1965."
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I bought my T-shirts at CafePress.com. Do a search using "atheist" and you'll find scores and scores of 'em.
(I also saw a T there for gay men that made me laugh: "That's 'Mr. Fag' to you")
Impish:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on May 26, 2006, 10:30:21 pm ---Hiya Imp,
Do you hang out on the Infidels forum? http://www.infidels.org/
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Yep! I know of it and agree it's fantastic. Thanks!
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