Atheist, are you one??

[monogroover]

Originally Posted by Nobody1

ATHEISM - THE ANSWER THAT SAVES THE WORLD.

Well, sounds nice, but i think atheism is just another faith.

It's not a faith.

[Wendigo]

I certainly am. There is NO evidence of any divine presence anywhere.
What we get for proof is ..... if it's good - That's because of God
If it's bad.... it's man's fault
I have no problem with other people's beliefs, religions sprang up all over the world well before the Christian era. They survived as they suited the people and conditions of that time such as the Sumerians, Vikings, Greeks, Druids, Romans and Christianity thrived due to the fact the people were oppressed by the Romans.
The ONLY religion I cannot fathom is that peculiar Christian sect who think the world is only a few thousand years old, and there's lots of them. Read books by the likes of Ken Ham (don't buy them though ) and prepare to throw all semblance of reality away.

[palo5]

Originally Posted by billybunter

That is a utopia you're talking about comrade. I only have to look at my own country to see religious zealots poisoning peoples minds.

No one said it was simple, Comrade - obviously it isn't. Clearly it is a question of how long their brains require to think coherently

[billybunter]

Originally Posted by Wendigo

I certainly am. There is NO evidence of any divine presence anywhere.
What we get for proof is ..... if it's good - That's because of God
If it's bad.... it's man's fault
I have no problem with other people's beliefs, religions sprang up all over the world well before the Christian era. They survived as they suited the people and conditions of that time such as the Sumerians, Vikings, Greeks, Druids, Romans and Christianity thrived due to the fact the people were oppressed by the Romans.
The ONLY religion I cannot fathom is that peculiar Christian sect who think the world is only a few thousand years old, and there's lots of them. Read books by the likes of Ken Ham (don't buy them though ) and prepare to throw all semblance of reality away.

A mate of mine works with a girl who is in one of thoses weird sects. She is adamant that dinosaurs never existed when challenged about the skeletons found all over the world, including the T REX on display in the Ulster Museum, she dismissed them as fake. Now, people like that are loony.

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by billybunter

A mate of mine works with a girl who is in one of thoses weird sects. She is adamant that dinosaurs never existed when challenged about the skeletons found all over the world, including the T REX on display in the Ulster Museum, she dismissed them as fake. Now, people like that are loony.

If so it's been going on for hundreds of years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paleontology

[Jeff Vader]

Originally Posted by Wendigo

If so it's been going on for hundreds of years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paleontology

Read some of the articles on this and have a giggle.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

[Jeff Vader]

Originally Posted by billybunter

A mate of mine works with a girl who is in one of thoses weird sects. She is adamant that dinosaurs never existed when challenged about the skeletons found all over the world, including the T REX on display in the Ulster Museum, she dismissed them as fake. Now, people like that are loony.

I've had on propose that god put them there as a trick, to see if we would spot the obvious joke. I invoked the host of Bill Hicks as a rebuttal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jim_HBj7Bdk

[penfold007]

I am an atheist. What I am not is evangelical about it. Everyone has the right to their own opinions, provided that they do not try to impose them on others or discriminate based on them.

It is important to note that not having faith in a deity does not preclude an individual from living their life in a way that could be described as "moral" and acting ethically. A book telling you to act in a particular way is not needed to achieve this.

[onelucky1]

I,m an aithiest and proud of it,you only have look up at the stars and the absolutely mindblowing distances between them
For me to then believe that some being put them up there for us is total bloody stupidity
My mrs is a jehovahs witness,so you can imagine the fun and games I have ,mind you I will give her her due the conditioning is still holding up,no matter what I say I can,t get through to her
it,s good stuff ,that jehovah conditioning

[palo5]

Originally Posted by billybunter

..She is adamant that dinosaurs never existed when challenged about the skeletons found all over the world, including the T REX on display in the Ulster Museum, she dismissed them as fake. Now, people like that are loony.

I thought people like that were kept in America