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Re: Smiles.... lyringlas Send a noteboard - 29/01/2010 09:03:48 PM
I suppose if you were christian and became atheist, you'd be "losing" God, but an atheist wouldn't see it that way. How can you remove something that does not exist? Furthermore, how is it your business if someone decides to remove something they see as false and fictional from their own life?


Just because you don't believe in God, doesn't mean that God doesn't exist. What you are loosing is hope in something greater than our world. What you are loosing is a moral foundation for making decisions in your life. What you are loosing is heaven.

Whether or not you want to acknowledge these things is totally up to you, but atheism is nothing more than a negative or anti belief...not a positive or pro belief. Look at its very basis...it gives nothing, but takes everything. Even by the very way that its spelled out in english. Theism is the belief (rather abstractly) in God. Putting that "a" in front of the word negates the "theism". Its a negative....hence it takes away.

~Jeordam



Uh....? Since when is not believing in something that cannot be seen, felt, or heard taking away everything and denying yourself eternal existence? A lot of us "atheists" as you loving religious folk deem to call us (frankly, I have no label, because labeling myself an atheist signifies I know there is a god and I deny it...which is definitely NOT what I do whatsoever). I believe in humanism. There is no higher power that is going to come back and save you once you die and your thoughts cease for eternity; there is no special VIP pad for people like you that subject the rest of the world to discrimination, lack of tolerance and understanding, and everything else that comes in the "benefits package" of religion. This is my main problem with religious people: if you need to believe that your life means something, and that all of your burning bridges and setting up yourselves as superior to us "unlearned" ones, then do so...but don't ruin existence in the NOW for the rest of us. Please, stop destroying the environment, inspiring fear to those not like you, and destroying the happiness of anyone that is slightly different in the name of some mythological entity. God did not put you here to put animals in factory farms, to burn down the rain forests, to exterminate thousands of species every year, to pollute the air, and eventually kill this world. If you look at history, which I hope you do at some point, you will see how the rubbish you believe to be true is the same useless rubbish that has been recycled from time on end, ad nosium, from culture to culture like some torch being passed from hand to hand in a never ending race where nobody has a chance of winning, but everyone is able to lose.
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You make baby Allah cry. *NM* - 27/01/2010 07:58:01 PM 522 Views
was it the dog comparison? - 27/01/2010 07:59:22 PM 903 Views
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parasites! parasites i say!!! - 27/01/2010 08:37:53 PM 879 Views
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some scholars say yes, some say no - 29/01/2010 05:51:18 AM 988 Views
Shall we be technical.... - 27/01/2010 09:28:20 PM 866 Views
And since when are you a trained eye? - 27/01/2010 09:52:05 PM 974 Views
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Then we are in accord. - 27/01/2010 10:00:32 PM 894 Views
That works.... - 27/01/2010 10:10:22 PM 892 Views
And I think that is wonderful. - 27/01/2010 10:33:05 PM 986 Views
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Re: I want to see an atheism Superbowl ad - 27/01/2010 06:35:30 PM 910 Views
Go ahead and pay for one.... - 27/01/2010 06:37:18 PM 1007 Views
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at your - 27/01/2010 07:03:39 PM 879 Views
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Exactly - 27/01/2010 07:29:49 PM 893 Views
Smiles.... - 27/01/2010 09:38:25 PM 877 Views
just because you believe in god - 27/01/2010 09:57:39 PM 758 Views
losing, not loosing *NM* - 27/01/2010 10:22:51 PM 533 Views
Re: Smiles.... - 29/01/2010 09:03:48 PM 843 Views
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Who says? - 27/01/2010 09:42:07 PM 875 Views
You're not "open" to anything. - 27/01/2010 10:02:03 PM 1014 Views
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Personally speaking - 27/01/2010 10:36:45 PM 939 Views
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But notice your perspective Brian... - 27/01/2010 11:08:52 PM 1006 Views
Your argument assumes in the existance of the Christian God. - 27/01/2010 11:28:16 PM 861 Views
Because we're His children - 28/01/2010 01:08:20 AM 900 Views
My perspective as someone who is for the most part an Atheist? - 28/01/2010 01:13:02 AM 811 Views
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Tolerance much? - 27/01/2010 08:11:12 PM 935 Views
I took care of that. - 27/01/2010 08:33:18 PM 916 Views
Don't read an emotion into that I didn't put into it. - 27/01/2010 09:44:37 PM 725 Views
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all athesim means is not believing in deities 9_9 - 27/01/2010 11:30:37 PM 734 Views
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Says the Protestant. - 27/01/2010 11:22:05 PM 882 Views
What is the UCC? *NM* - 29/01/2010 02:59:07 AM 545 Views
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that I can agree with - 27/01/2010 08:27:30 PM 829 Views
Re: I think that its a fantastic idea... - 28/01/2010 03:36:11 AM 841 Views
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Hahahaha... I couldn't care less, but this line cracked me up - 27/01/2010 06:19:37 PM 923 Views
wow...I didn't even think of that... - 27/01/2010 06:39:04 PM 866 Views
Heh. *NM* - 28/01/2010 10:43:43 PM 535 Views
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agreed *NM* - 27/01/2010 07:15:48 PM 529 Views
this. *NM* - 28/01/2010 01:33:01 AM 473 Views
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Bingo. - 27/01/2010 07:58:01 PM 742 Views
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Yeah, I'm sure that's it. - 27/01/2010 08:44:26 PM 728 Views
"the buggery agenda" - 27/01/2010 08:47:28 PM 867 Views
I know, I loved it! I might start using that instead of Fagenda. *NM* - 27/01/2010 09:03:53 PM 544 Views
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But how would you folks argue on the internet then? I'd still have Stalin... *NM* - 27/01/2010 08:49:17 PM 506 Views
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LMAO! that would be awesome *NM* - 28/01/2010 12:02:25 AM 542 Views
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Oh no you di'in't! - 27/01/2010 08:54:47 PM 652 Views
I had a similar thought... - 27/01/2010 10:17:15 PM 849 Views
*NM* - 28/01/2010 01:12:46 AM 484 Views
*brain explodes* - 27/01/2010 08:30:51 PM 759 Views
are your sinuses clear now? *NM* - 27/01/2010 08:54:18 PM 491 Views
Oddly enough, they aren't. - 27/01/2010 08:59:27 PM 904 Views
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Ah, - 29/01/2010 02:51:22 PM 842 Views
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