AddisonORiley
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I totally agree its a fear that when you die your energy and spirit will cease to exist and some people just can't handle it. I am terrified to die because I realize the reality of the situation.
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I totally agree its a fear that when you die your energy and spirit will cease to exist and some people just can't handle it. I am terrified to die because I realize the reality of the situation.
AddisonORiley
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I am a Belieber not a beliver... but I do think its ok to believe if it gives you some sort of hope that you need.
No offence but Atheism like any Religion is a stupid belief and waste of time. Anyone claiming to know the unknown cannot trash someone else for claiming to know the opposite. Although I do love people who challenge ideas and consider new ones like Agnostics ( "The Official Agnostic Discussion Thread"?). IMO most people in this world could use some humility on the subject.
If I'm wrong well then I'm wrong. I can at least say I was a good person and hope that just because I believed God didn't exist that wouldn't blacklist me as a bad person. If God didn't like my lifestyle then why couldn't he have told me and not these Christian Catholic, Baptist, etc. fanatics? What if Christians are wrong and Islam is the correct religion, what if it's one of those ancient religions that had it right? We'll never know, and until I have proof of which "God" is the right one, or if he even exists, I'll stick to being an agnostic. That's why I'm an agnostic, No religion is able to prove that their "God" is right.
1. Do you feel discriminated against because of being an atheist?
2. Do you feel that society finds it "okay" to discriminate against someone for being athiest? (whereas it is viewed as wrong if you discriminate against women, blacks, gay guys, etc.)
2. Do you feel that society finds it "okay" to discriminate against someone for being athiest? (whereas it is viewed as wrong if you discriminate against women, blacks, gay guys, etc.)
why does god **** us so much?
The cornerstone of most deity based religions that I'm aware of is the concept of faith. That is, trusting upon a belief in something in spite of the perceived odds of circumstance.
That said, what would be the point of the necessity of faith if the existence of God were unequivocally provable?
1. I don't feel discriminated per-se but I do find that people view me differently now, I had a few friends I made in my Confirmation classes (Sunday School classes) that don't talk to me anymore because I stopped going to church and openly said that I'm a non theist.
I think it's really hard to be discriminated for being a non theist just because you don't have this huge red x on your back that says atheist, or agnostic, people won't find out unless you just go up to them and tell them. I've been refused service in a Restaurant in Colorado and a Gas Station in North Texas, because I'm Hispanic, but never because I'm a non-theist.
2. Society probably would find it ok to discriminate against non theist, especially in conservative and religious environments. I know theists who say that non theists are "Immoral", or the funniest one is "Satan worshipers", Non Theist don't believe in Satan, mind you. But yeah, I guess discrimination would be viewed as ok because it's just a Philosophy, not a racial thing.
They don't believe in God, just a pine box.
no, i'm asking why god hates us, not if they think god hates us. :tongue:
Considering you're wrong about atheism being a religion, no offense taken. How is not believing in a god, a waste of time. That's like saying a non-belief in stamp collecting is a waste of time. Atheism is a position that just says you don't believe in any god(s) so there is no dotrine or dogma to make it a religion. You might wanna call anti-theism a religion but it would need a god or set of gods and obviously it doesn't. Agnostics are on the fence and if they find out there's a god, they'd worship it. I wouldn't so if there's a god, it makes no difference to me. You didn't but just to address this common mistake, I can't stand when people assume we shouldn't have an opinion about a religion because we don't believe in it. What an unfair copout and something that doesn't stop a theist from criticizing another theist's religion.
The difference between atheist vs. theist debates and theist vs. theist debates is that atheists are usually concerned with showing that religion in general is unsavory in some way, while theists are usually trying to convince each other who's specific unsavoriness is better. Personally, I think both are vacuous efforts. People believe what they believe and rarely change their minds.
I would venture to say that the atheists that spend their time trying to denounce religion, publicly or otherwise, are concerned that it is affecting society in a negative way. It's a concern that I actually share, and I think that religious beliefs and principles have taken far too strong a hold in arenas like politics and education.
