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Edited by Choopie:
9/5/2013 2:50:44 AM
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A Serious Question To Atheists
This coming from a used to be Atheist...What is the reason you don't believe in God, did something happen? Is there a specific reason? Things just never added up? Im not trying to be rude or a troll like the rest but my question is just why don't you believe? :)
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The only answer I want from atheist is where they want to be deported to. The USA is a Christian nation and the atheist scum don't belong here.
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9 RepliesThe average iq for people who are atheist is 119 being the highest for any 'religious' group. But really i think its a waiste of time, you only live once ( yes i said that ) and you shouldnt waiste the time that you have.
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I'm fascinated by our universe, I don't want to take the Deus Ex Machina route to explaining it.
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Edited by Steveokiller: 9/7/2013 6:37:18 PMI never did believe. Ever since I was little and able to understand what religion was I thought it was foolish. Belief in an omnipresent being existing, that actually cares about humanity. And if one such being existed they would not have allowed all the atrocities that have happened throughout human history, both in the name of god and not in the name of god. And honestly there is no proof that one even exists.
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I'm agnostic. I was raised Catholic and I realized that, if I wasn't, I probably wouldn't be a religious person. I felt that I needed a more compelling reason to believe than having been raised in a religious family.
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SCIENCE Nuff said.
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7 RepliesLogic > Superstition.
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They stories in religion don't make sense to me and seem really, really farfetched. Current religion will eventually become the ancient religion people study to day. Like Zeus and all those stories related to the ancient Greek mythology. I believe at some point in the future [i]most[/i] people will study Christianity and Islam as we study ancient mythology today.
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I read the Bible, realized it a bunch of disgusting bullsh*t, and stopped believing it.
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Oh, and you said you used to be an Atheist, what happened?
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1 ReplyNothing happened to me that made me turn atheist. No teen angst, no resentment of God, nothing. I was born into a theist family and overtime I just thought that the stories in the bible sounded more and more make believe. Even at a young age, I knew that science proved that the Earth has been around a lot longer than the bible said. That was probably the beginning. I thought the story of Noah's Ark was extremely illogical. I was also doubtful of God's "love" whenever the bible spoke about his wrath. I always thought it was weird that so many people would think of God as some all loving being when his anger killed so many. As I grew up, these ideas grew up until the point where I was agnostic. I was agnostic for a short time just because I was slightly afraid of letting go of my belief completely. Within a month I let go and I guess I've been atheist ever since. I have no hatred to anyone who believes, I just don't believe. Simple as that.
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Dunno really, just never clicked in for me, and it's not like I was raised religious, I was a Muslim which can get fairly serious in terms of religious practice. When I became 16 I just started questioning things and then became the typical "I hate religion" atheist till about 18 when I started to settle down a bit, became agnostic and since then just have no cared at all about religion. Just not my thing.
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6 RepliesI remember asking this here before I became an atheist. You're almost there buddy!
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Two words: No evidence. It doesn't get more simple.
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Edited by Masque of Night: 9/4/2013 4:29:52 AMWhat reason have I [i]to[/i] believe?
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My parents don't believe in in so they never brainwashed me into it
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I don't believe he exists. Simple as that.
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Let's just say I went through a rough patch as a kid. Other people have had it worse, but it's something you would never wish on a ten year old. I couldn't cope and being the Catholic that I was, I prayed to God and asked for help. I asked why I would have to deal with that, what exactly had I done wrong? Of course there was no answer, neither symbolic or literal. Other things happened too, like once in scripture class (when we were learning to get our first communion or reconcilliation), I brought up the Egyptian Gods and the teacher said they were silly. So I thought, well maybe God isn't real? Who is to say that the Egyptian gods aren't real and we're the silly ones? What if I was being punished for not believing in the Greek gods? And then I realized that maybe none of them exist, or maybe they all exist. We have no way of knowing and the only 'evidence' are some stories thousands of years old. I guess that was it. I didn't look for God anymore, and eventually everything got better. [spoiler]I am now a Shrekolic. Shrek is love. Shrek is life.[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyNo, nothing "happened" where I was like "Oh, how could a gracious and loving God bestow unto me such a horrid tragedy!" I just kind of thought about why people, and myself, believed in God in the first place and, over time, found those reasons to be largely invalid. It boils down largely to a lack of evidence suggesting deities are real.
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2 RepliesSome things are just self evident ... same way you know not to jump off a building. There are no wonders which need to be answered by some mythical "god". There is no test of faith which would allow a priest (this "gods" representative) to defile an innocent child. Time to turn the question around ... what caused you to need an imaginary friend to act as a backup in your life?
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2 RepliesWell, I just thought that religion is used so much as justification for homophobia, sexism, racism, etc., why bother with it? Why not just focus on people, helping them and treating them well, instead of all the useless tradition and worship of something(s) that may not (read: probably not, hell, doesn't) even exist?
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Edited by DocSmurf: 9/5/2013 6:46:22 AMWell to be honest i don't think, even with a Christian family, that I ever really did. According to my teachers from the catholic school i went to i was poking holes in faith since I was in the 3rd grade. But to put it simply and eloquently. [quote] [quote] That which can be asserted with no evidence can be dismissed with no evidence. [/quote] [/quote] Once i got older the Appeal to authority, Appeal to emotion, begging the question, and other fallacies in religion became far to obvious to ignore. Not to mention that the only way a theist can defeat an atheist is to assert that they are Gnostic in their disbelief which most arn't and the only way for them to argue against science is to attempt and straw man it. I have seen it for years and i continue to see it in debates to this day.
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I've been very philosophically open during my life. I wasn't raised as anything. My parents didn't raise me as a christian or an atheist - they just didn't tell me anything about the matter. I always considered myself an atheist in my childhood, and felt alienated a lot by authority in school. About half way through attending a Church of England school, I took to spiritual satanist - almost as a form of personal protest. Upon high school, I switched back to atheism and after having many in-depth conversations with my philosophy tutor, I almost became a Christian (I had also read parts of the Bible). Since, I have read and watched the words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet etc. and I couldn't agree with them more. My hatred for religious authority burns deeply.
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1 ReplyWell, my parents made me go to church, which made me mad. So I started listening to Hollywood Undead and dressing in black to rebel against The Lord. These days, I just wear a fedora.
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A few reasons why I never believed... -Which religion is right? -why is Origins so wrong? -why do people use religion for corruption and power? -0 Evidence -genocide -christians never have the right answers A few more reasons
