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  • Seventh

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    I think it is the fact that the Christian believes in God and hopes that God will do something nice for the person the statement is being said to. The child believes in Santa and hopes that Santa will do something nice for the person the statement is being said to. Both are expressing their beliefs and hoping for the best for the object.
    Exactly!

    And Dujo: If that person meant it in an entirely nice way, and not as some form of curse, then I would be flattered. It all depends on the intent of the speaker. The speaker isn't to know that you don't believe, they're not psychic. They're just trying to be nice in a way that is very meaningful to them.
    April 29th, 2008 at 01:03pm
  • The Brightside

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    The Bible was written by people who were there. It is proven and it is Science
    Prove that it was proven. :mrgreen: How is it science? There is little fact to back it up... these are retellings of people hundreds and hundreds of years ago. What's to say they didn't put the Bible together as some kind of joke?
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    May GOD bless you and may you find faith in Him for without Him you have no true life.
    So you're saying that because I don't believe in God I have no true life? What does that even mean?
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    The race of man was started by Adam and Eve.
    How can only two people start an entire race? There's such little logic for it. Wouldn't that make their children's children inbreds?
    April 29th, 2008 at 01:23pm
  • castle.

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    I think it is the fact that the Christian believes in God and hopes that God will do something nice for the person the statement is being said to. The child believes in Santa and hopes that Santa will do something nice for the person the statement is being said to. Both are expressing their beliefs and hoping for the best for the object.
    Exactly!

    And Dujo: If that person meant it in an entirely nice way, and not as some form of curse, then I would be flattered. It all depends on the intent of the speaker. The speaker isn't to know that you don't believe, they're not psychic. They're just trying to be nice in a way that is very meaningful to them.
    But I posted before the girl and said I was an Atheist so she did know I didn't believe. It's an Atheist message board, too. I'm not trying to be difficult. :file:
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    What's to say they didn't put the Bible together as some kind of joke?
    I wrote the Bible. :shifty
    April 29th, 2008 at 10:19pm
  • Seventh

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    Sorry, I didn't know you were referring ONLY to when that poster blessed you. I read it to mean that it annoyed you when people in general blessed you.

    Obviously, that poster could have worked out that you're not a believer and, by your code of ettiquette, should have refrained from wishing you well.

    I was trying to say that a general person you may meet and speak to has no way of knowing if you're a believer or not.

    Perhaps we should all refrain from wishing one another well, for fear of offending someone who doesn't believe in happiness.
    April 29th, 2008 at 10:57pm
  • castle.

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    No it's completely fine. I don't mean it when someone says "Bless you" or anything else without a religous meaning. Even when someone sneezes I tend to say it out of instinct, without meaning. :arms:
    April 29th, 2008 at 11:06pm
  • Chelsea.Dagger

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    What lead me to become an athiest was having to go to boarding school and forced to go to church every Sunday for three years.

    Plus R.E classes in school revealed the truth about people and how cruel we can really be, within religion. I really do not agree with some of the the things each religion has.

    In my opinion, Religion is also the cause for several civil wars. That is only my opinion though.

    Also I don't believe in the extreme things people will do to prove that they are religious and believe highly in their God.

    I lost my belief in God and Religion a long time ago because other things I have seen too.
    May 3rd, 2008 at 05:33pm
  • wx12

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    You know I think people confuse the belief in god and the belief in religion often. They really aren't the same. I didn't practice any religion for awhile because I was opposed to them, but disliking religion alone doesn't make you an atheist because you can dislike organized religion but still have personal beliefs in a higher power. I didn't become an atheist unitl I was about 13 or 14 when I no longer identified with being agnostic.
    May 3rd, 2008 at 06:03pm
  • Chelsea.Dagger

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    Yeah I guess. I just can't see how there can be one person, spirit; Whatever God my be that watches over everyone, how there can be so many different Gods.

    I just don't seem to grasp the concept or want to.
    May 3rd, 2008 at 06:52pm
  • The Lovecraft

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    Gahhh... I don't know what I believe anymore. At times, I tend to feel closer to God, but I've realized that those times are just the times when I'm at peace with myself. I was baptized a Christian Orthodox when I was 6 weeks old, and it's very important to my family, though we're not awfully religious. I intend to formally be an Orthodox at least for as long as my parents are alive.
    May 6th, 2008 at 03:32pm
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    The Bible was written by people who were there. It is proven and it is Science
    Prove that it was proven. :mrgreen: How is it science? There is little fact to back it up... these are retellings of people hundreds and hundreds of years ago. What's to say they didn't put the Bible together as some kind of joke?
    The bible was written between 40-80 years (depending what gospel you are reading) after Jesus died. Most writters either had family their or were children...
    May 8th, 2008 at 12:16pm
  • The Brightside

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    The bible was written between 40-80 years (depending what gospel you are reading) after Jesus died. Most writters either had family their or were children...
    Well, apparently Jesus did exist, but what's still to say people weren't making that stuff about everything he did up? And him coming back to life?
    May 8th, 2008 at 01:42pm
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    The bible was written between 40-80 years (depending what gospel you are reading) after Jesus died. Most writters either had family their or were children...
    Well, apparently Jesus did exist, but what's still to say people weren't making that stuff about everything he did up? And him coming back to life?
    What I was saying was how could they remember what happned properly anyway.

    I mean do you remember what happened even two years agi at a school assembly?
    May 8th, 2008 at 01:47pm
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    I mean do you remember what happened even two years ago at a school assembly?
    I remember one when I was in second grade... they had endangered birds there and a bald eagle landed on a boy's neck. He didn't get hurt thou.
    May 9th, 2008 at 01:22am
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    I mean do you remember what happened even two years ago at a school assembly?
    I remember one when I was in second grade... they had endangered birds there and a bald eagle landed on a boy's neck. He didn't get hurt thou.
    Do you remember enough to write a whole book about it?
    May 9th, 2008 at 04:21am
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    Why would I write a whole book about something that lasted maybe two hours at tops?
    May 9th, 2008 at 01:27pm
  • Syck

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    I was raised as a Southern Baptist, but my mother found religion the same time I did. I took the information which was preached to me with acceptance, because that was all I knew - I never knew about Catholics, Buddhists, or atheists. Being a Baptist just... was.

    Then I hit high school, where there were a variety of religions. Most of my friends I learned to make were atheists. They explained what they believed and why they believed it. I mulled over it. I compared and contrasted my religion compared to atheism. Did I really believe that there was a god? Where was the proof? Did it really matter?

    Well, after a few months of wrestling with my religion, I gradually got out of the Christian practice, and that's when I started losing my religion.

    And I haven't regretted it once.
    May 9th, 2008 at 10:59pm
  • castle.

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    ^ Do you simply not know if God exists, or truly believe there's no higher power? I'm a bit confused...:shifty.
    May 14th, 2008 at 10:12pm
  • Megan Christ.

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    Before you read my post, I'm not trying to offend anyone, this is just how I feel.

    I honestly don't believe that there is...some guy up in the sky.
    That just sounds like something a stoner would say. :/
    I mean, I completely respect everyones religion and opinions on these things, but it's just not for me.

    I remember back when I was younger and my mom made us go to church.
    None of the things they talked about made sense. I didn't believe any of it.
    It's just, couldn't someone have wrote it because they were bored?
    Even my mom finds it all hard to believe too, but when she explained to me what she 'believed', she sounded more like she was agnostic than atheist.

    And the whole Adam and Eve thing.
    How could they populate the world...or wherever they were?
    Wouldn't that mean that their kids would be incest?
    Nothing makes sense to me.

    And one more thing.
    I've heard that Jesus was God's son.
    Then I heard the story about Mary and Joseph, with Jesus being their son.
    BUT, Mary was a virgin, or so it says, and...how is that possible?
    So yeah.
    :/
    May 15th, 2008 at 12:53am
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    Well in Seventh's terms, I'd be a non-believer, I presume. But as far as I have been concerned up to this point, I myself am an athiest.

    I've always been one, before I knew there was a word for it. Even as a child, the idea of some almighty being watching over us. Various different ideas that people have presented to me have made me less and less believing in the possibility. Someone told me he controls what we do, someone else told me that he has our life planned out, etc. That all sounds like complete and total nonsense to me. Now, being a Jewish child in a total Christian neighborhood for the majority of my adolescence, I had always felt out of place; I never celebrated any holidays that the other kiddies would squeal about, I would always be "kindly" given a different assignment for the holidays (such as instead of writing about what I want from Santa, just what I want for Chanukkah instead). I always found that to probably be another reason. I never fully understood others' beliefs in Christmas or Easter, honestly I never understood Chanukkah or Passover either. All of it is complete irrationality and myth that could not happen. As I'm typing, I'm finding that I'm also stating indirectly that I don't believe in religion either, which is true (I think religion is idiotic and used generally as a scapegoat). But I digress, I don't find the idea of God, or Jesus, or Allah or Yahweh, whatever, to make any sense at all. As the person previous to me said, the whole Adam and Eve, Jesus being God's son, etc. is all impossibility. Pretty much all I can say for my beliefs is that I think everything happens for a reason.

    andpsSeventh,you'reoneofmymostfavoritewritersonthesite:]
    May 15th, 2008 at 03:37am
  • Scars.

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    Everybody, or most of them, once in there life will wonder if their truly is someone out there.
    I don't.
    I don't beleive there is.
    I just don't.
    I don't even believe in religion.
    But if someone came to me, and they had another religion, I'd actually really be interested in learning it; but not being of it.
    I was never easy to influence, and my parents did have trouble with me in that certain touchy subject; but I didn't change my thoughts for somebody else's.

    :shock: I'm ready to be eaten now, and I don't want to offend anyone in any way... if I did...
    May 15th, 2008 at 08:16am