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08 Aug 2008, 8:15 pm

Oh wait, call that all off, I just discovered this:

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what's wrong with you all? Why don't u belive in God and Jesus Christ. You will go to hell if you don't. I'm just saying to warn you


Damn! To think I never knew . . .



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08 Aug 2008, 11:51 pm

Krush8888 wrote:
what's wrong with you all? Why don't u belive in God and Jesus Christ. You will go to hell if you don't. I'm just saying to warn you


Maybe because we were raised in non-Christian households. Maybe because we see other religions as the path to truth. I recognize that the universe is complex and cannot be explained completely, but that this lack of knowledge is attributable to the short period of time science has had to explain the world, and the vastness of the rest of the universe; not by an invisible puppeteer pulling strings behind the scenes.

You claim to have all the answers. I don't, and I find your answers somewhat lacking.


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09 Aug 2008, 2:05 pm

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catholic. I think all this atheisim is stupid as a I have personally seen the Arch-Angel Micheal

Me too!
and here is the proof!

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09 Aug 2008, 4:46 pm

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I'm an Agnostic Atheist, in that I can't prove that God absolutely doesn't exist, but y'know, chances are as much that there's a kettle orbiting the earth to me. I am also uncomprimisingly anti-Theist but wish for a world where we're all plainly Apatheist. I could also lend myself to slight Buddhist and Sufi influences.

Given all the space junk up there, this might not be a good analogy...


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09 Aug 2008, 5:20 pm

Barracuda wrote:
Aalto wrote:
I'm an Agnostic Atheist, in that I can't prove that God absolutely doesn't exist, but y'know, chances are as much that there's a kettle orbiting the earth to me. I am also uncomprimisingly anti-Theist but wish for a world where we're all plainly Apatheist. I could also lend myself to slight Buddhist and Sufi influences.

Given all the space junk up there, this might not be a good analogy...

Replace it with "a Marcel Marceau record" then.



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09 Aug 2008, 5:39 pm

greenblue wrote:
nightbender wrote:
catholic. I think all this atheisim is stupid as a I have personally seen the Arch-Angel Micheal

Me too!
and here is the proof!

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not joking



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09 Aug 2008, 7:06 pm

There are other accounts of angel sightings, so don't feel too bad nightbender. Personally, I'd love to have a spiritual vision.



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12 Aug 2008, 1:45 pm

nightbender wrote:
greenblue wrote:
nightbender wrote:
catholic. I think all this atheisim is stupid as a I have personally seen the Arch-Angel Micheal

Me too!
and here is the proof!

Image


not joking

How much pot were you on?



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13 Aug 2008, 6:46 pm

Pagan

Not much really. I probably would if I were still in highschool. (Graduated in '04) Just the occasional "You're going to hell."



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13 Aug 2008, 8:41 pm

Christian.



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13 Aug 2008, 8:58 pm

atheist

nobody really gives me hell for my beliefs, although i generally avoid the topic because most people can't seem to have an intelligent conversation without getting overemotional and ruining the whole thing. my parents did bug me about it for a while when i "came out" as an atheist, but now the topic is generally avoided.



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14 Aug 2008, 12:08 am

nightbender wrote:
catholic. I think all this atheisim is stupid as a I have personally seen the Arch-Angel Micheal

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this is your god now



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14 Aug 2008, 4:31 am

To borrow from Richard Dawkins - I am agnostic about god in the same way I am agnostic about the tooth fairy. Show me a grain of evidence that points to the existence of a god.


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14 Aug 2008, 8:37 am

I'm Jewish. The only time people ever give me crap is when they make false assumptions by lumping Judaism in with Christianity.



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14 Aug 2008, 8:57 am

Judaism and Christianity certainly are related.



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14 Aug 2008, 4:23 pm

slowmutant wrote:
Judaism and Christianity certainly are related.


They are related but they don't have a whole lot in common. Christianity took a Jewish text that had been translated into another language and interpreted it in ways very different from the ways Judaism interprets it. Judaism has more in common with Hinduism than it does with Christianity.

The assertion of some sort of Judeo-Christian tradition is a modern myth. It's largely taking Christian values and beliefs and treating them as if they apply to both Judaism and Christianity. This after over 1000 years of the persecution of Judaism by Christians, often church-sponsored. It's politically correct foolishness. It also displaces other Abrahamic religions such as Islam and Bahai.