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['Butterflies']

It's fun to watch, especially when their religion is a pile of bollocks.

Although I'm not religious I don't have a problem with people who are. As long as they don't ram it down my throat. I don't ram my athiesm down their throats either. I've seen religion play a big part in comforting peoplke with problems and I've seen people use their faith to achieve great things. I actually think a little bit of religion can help some people. It's just that I personally don't believe any of it.
I would never try and persuade somebody with faith that they were wrong.

[Frolic_Fun]

It's fun to watch, especially when their religion is a pile of bollocks.

Although I'm not religious I don't have a problem with people who are. As long as they don't ram it down my throat. I don't ram my athiesm down their throats either. I've seen religion play a big part in comforting peoplke with problems and I've seen people use their faith to achieve great things. I actually think a little bit of religion can help some people. It's just that I personally don't believe any of it.
I would never try and persuade somebody with faith that they were wrong.

Obviously that if a person isn't an arsehole about their religion, then I won't mind at all. I am in no position to control other people's lives once they don't try to control mine.

I am still allowed to think to myself that it is a load of nonsense though.

[RageBeoulve]

I feel shame for religious people.

[Frolic_Fun]

I feel shame for even some atheists. They can be just as retarded as your average extremist Muslim at times.

[RageBeoulve]

 

[Natalia Evans]

Are you registered on WP?

['Butterflies']

Are you registered on WP?

I don't use WP. Trying to be social on one site's more than enough for me.

[Natalia Evans]

I saw you mentioning in another thread you read Randy's old posts there.

['Butterflies']

I saw you mentioning in another thread you read Randy's old posts there.

I've lurked on this site and WP for a long time. I've always been more of a lurker

[Natalia Evans]

So using and lurking are two different things to you?

['Butterflies']

So using and lurking are two different things to you?

I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean.

[Alex179]

You have to be strong in the face of dangerous consequences to be brave.   Being an atheist is not brave in itself, but openly being an atheist in a world full of religious people is brave.   Standing up against the tyranny of the religious institutions of this world is dangerous, as many of the powers-that-be in this world are in league with said religions institutions.   Atheists are the enemy of all religion.   Committing deicide is dangerous not because of the supposed gods, but the delusional followers that hate you because you destroyed their god are dangerous.

I think Britain is much less religious than America. Some of my friends were religious but none of them were very serious about it. From my experience most of the younger generation in Scotland were either atiest or religious in name only. I don't think I've had any friends who regularly attended church.
N.Ireland is the complete opposite though. The place is full of churches of every denomination. They seem to be competing with one another for your soul.

Where I live is basically the "buckle" of the Bible belt as far as America is concerned.   Christians of all sorts are everywhere.

[Natalia Evans]

So using and lurking are two different things to you?

I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean.

You said you don't use WP but you said you lurked there. It sounds like you're saying two different things here. To me lurking on a forum is using the forum so I thought maybe you don't see lurking on a forum as using it.

[Mr Smith]

Its peoples attitudes towards religion that make them idiots. Sure, you can believe one thing more than the others, its those who try to force what they believe onto others and say others are stupid because they don't believe the same things.

Yeah, no-ne can prove there is a god.
But no-one can prove there isn't either.

(I'm not a Christian btw)

[Scrapheap]

Yeah, no-ne can prove there is a god.
But no-one can prove there isn't either.

You can't disprove any Fairy Tale.

Can you disprove that Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Elrond and the elves didn't really exist in another galaxy/dimention/time??

Can you disprove the Flying Spaghetti Monster??

When someone claims belief in something that can't be disproven, this should sent up red flags.

In order to tell if something is true, we have to be able to establish a criteria by which it isn't true. If you can't do that, then you should discard the belief as untrue by default.