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Anonymous #1
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 Atheists Unite! 
#15853131 - 02/23/12 05:43 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I recently saw this pic on my one friend's Facebook and couldn't resist.
I understand I'm unleashing the hounds with this one, so please keep this civil and without direct flaming toward another member. I'd like to see this thread keep going.
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Anonymous #2
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dick move...let them be happy with their false teachings
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Anonymous #1
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Typical theists: thinking that everyone else is angry at god.
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Anonymous #3
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"Faith" by George Michael was a hell of a song. That tune still holds up today and doesn't sound dated or old. I was tripping on mescaline a while back and that song came on. Its upbeat rhythm and tempo propelled me into depths of ecstasy. And I'm no queer.
But faith is powerful. It gives people an anchor in this fucked up world where terrible things happen to good people and evil motherfuckers thrive and enjoy tremendous pleasure at other people's expense. Its the only way the sheep can make sense out of a senseless existence. Me? I throw my hands up, thank my lucky stars for this handsome face and sharp mind, and indulge endlessly in hedonistic pursuits. I have faith in gas prices rising.
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Anonymous #4
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Anonymous #1 said:
I recently saw this pic on my one friend's Facebook and couldn't resist.
I understand I'm unleashing the hounds with this one, so please keep this civil and without direct flaming toward another member. I'd like to see this thread keep going.
Kinda dumb TBH...
Atheism is a lack of belief. How can you evangelize a lack of belief? Trust me, most people have considered the possibility of not believing in anything. You are not the only one who has thought of it, and most people already know what "faith" means.
Speaking of faith, I'm pretty sure you and I wouldn't have existed without it. You almost definitely have "faith" in something, whether it's something as abstract as God or something more materialistic like your family and friends, your daily routine, or your goals in life. If you don't have faith in anything at all then that might explain why you're flaming your religious friends on Facebook.
Edited by Anonymous (02/23/12 09:24 PM)
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Anonymous #2
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Atheism is not the lack of belief. It is the lack of a god or deity.
Monotheism-Having one god-Christianity
Polytheism-Having multiple gods-Hinduism
Atheism-having no gods-Buddhism
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Anonymous #4
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Atheism is not the lack of belief. It is the lack of a god or deity.
Monotheism-Having one god-Christianity
Polytheism-Having multiple gods-Hinduism
Atheism-having no gods-Buddhism
A lack of belief in a deity is not a belief in the lack of a deity.
This is why outspoken atheists look like douchebags unless they're making a good point. It's hypocritical. Responding to your friends' post mocking their beliefs from the position of "atheism" is no different from them coming on your wall demanding that you convert or go to hell.
EDIT: Funny story, Christianity was originally considered "atheism" as well. 
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Anonymous #2
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Life is a hypocrisy. Live with it. 
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Anonymous #4
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Life is a hypocrisy. Live with it.
I appreciate your honesty.  /
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Anonymous #2
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When was Christianity considered an atheistic religion? I would like to know. I never felt a need to back track false teachings. This is interesting.
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Anonymous #4
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In Roman times it was considered atheism because it rejected Roman polytheism. It also ignored Jewish law and its "God" was very abstract and had nothing in common with the God of the Hebrew Bible.
It was a brand-new religion with no god, started by Jews, that later came to be co-opted by Jewish orthodoxy and the Roman imperial cult. It was atheism for the time because it used "God" as a way to describe a vast impersonal force instead of a mythical creature or person.
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Anonymous #2
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So basically atheism was used as a term similar to our monotheism?
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Anonymous #4
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No, there were other monotheistic religions (such as Judaism). Christianity was considered atheist because its use of the concept of God was figurative and non-personified. It was legitimately atheistic, but since then its definition of "God" was manipulated by rabbis hawking the Old Testament and Romans hawking unquestioning obedience to a supreme authority figure.
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Anonymous #5
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I got tired of the whole debate with Christians and like minded people. You can show them evidence upon evidence of things
that disprove their beliefs but they dont care one bit. Thats an extinct volcano... no, god put that there. This is a dinosaur bone... no, god put that there 
It's like trying to explain something to a 2 years old their mind just can't comprehend it so or they just dont want to.
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Anonymous #4
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Most Christians don't even believe that kind of garbage.
The whole debate is stupid bullshit manufactured to divide us with quibbles of semantics.
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Anonymous #2
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Thanks for the info. 
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Anonymous #5
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Most Christians don't even believe that kind of garbage.
The whole debate is stupid bullshit manufactured to divide us with quibbles of semantics.
There's actually a lot that do, Americans love their bibles and believe whats in it. Thats the premise around all this
anti gay shit because their bible is against it. It's really hard to talk to someone who believes that a
man saved two of every animal and we came from two people... well one then he made a woman out of himself.
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Anonymous #2
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The bible is also against indulgence. Which is EXACTLY what EVERY human does. The Bible is so farfetched i find it hard to believe that anyone could believe in it.
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Anonymous #6
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Anonymous #4
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The bible is also against indulgence. Which is EXACTLY what EVERY human does. The Bible is so farfetched i find it hard to believe that anyone could believe in it.
Jesus Christ personally spoke out against public prayer, too.
Christians don't read the Bible.
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Anonymous #2
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This is true. The protestants broke off from the Catholics because they were accepting money. Now the protestants take money.
They ignore their religion yet they call themselves as such. When ice melts it turns to water. When a jew loses his beliefs how can he still call himself a jew?
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Anonymous #4
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Well, my strategy is to tell Christians who mouth off with ignorant shit to actually read the Bible, give them references, etc. They quote you Deuteronomy to prove that gay people are an abomination, you quote Galatians to prove that Deuteronomy's laws have been annulled by Jesus. And so on.
I find it much more effective for influencing people than quoting the dictionary on faith or putting down their life experiences, although a lot of the really thick ones still won't follow through on the reading. 
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Anonymous #5
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The bible is also against indulgence. Which is EXACTLY what EVERY human does. The Bible is so farfetched i find it hard to believe that anyone could believe in it.
And yet here we are in the 21st century where people not only believe but will quote it as absolute truth
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Anonymous #7
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Stupid post OP.
Don't you have faith in yourself, in your future? Faith is actually a very real thing, and lies beyond the question of God. Atheists can have faith, in science, in their kids...
Really, you're being a fucking idiot there.
Typical ignorant atheist. I'm an atheist myself but I constantly facepalm at the sight of people who attack religion in stupid ways (christianity is evil! Oh yeah, well sorry it's the root of 80% of our culture so you might as well say we're evil, and how can you say such things anyway when you have no clue about Mediterranean history?), science disproves religion (science deals with precise facts to which a scientific method can be applied, the existence of God as a concept is a mataphysical claim), christians are evil (oh so you've met 1/3 of the world population?), etc...
Really, either shut up or at least really get the education so you can stop pretending you actually know more than theists (which you're at least differenciating with deists, I hope).
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