Atheist, Was it your liberal education, your parents, or just your own?
inner desire to do what ever you please with no consequences or repercussion (spiritually) that led you to turn your back on the God of your ancestors.? Just asking.
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I'd say I learned that I have the ability to think for myself. Also, I decided it was important to stand up for the rights of all people, not just the ones who don't do things that disgust certain close-minded people.
First of all, dear heart, ever since becoming an atheist I don't do whatever I please - no raping boys, cheating on my income tax, or stealing ketchup packets out of fast food restaurants, no sirree! I'm a chump who obeys the laws and respects others.
Second, I've experienced no spiritual consequences or repercussions of any kind. Part of my becoming an atheist involved realizing that there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever for "spirituality" as part of being human; we're natural creatures living in a natural universe whose consciousness has evolved naturally. Being spiritual just means having religious/supernatural beliefs, as far as I can tell.
As for the "God of my ancestors" - which ancestors? The first hominids to walk upright in Africa? Didn't believe in gods. The Celts, Goths, and Vikings on both my parents' sides? Believed in many gods. No evidence for any of them anyway, past or present.
What an idiot.
Well lets see, my parents helped by teaching me to think for myself, my education helped by teaching me how the world really works, but mostly it was just my own logic and reason that lead me to conclude that religion is bullshit.
It was education, period. It was being smart and reasonable enough to read the wildly contradictory and preposterous stuff you swallow whole and say, "Wait, what?"
My stance has always been, like, if your god doesn't dig someone who is morally responsible, civil, ethical, etc. -- on his own two feet -- then flip him a fish and continue the search beyond.
It's no more of a fantasy than any other in this particular comedy, but it's only rational to be able to choose your afterlife.
This "Forever" thing is ridiculously counterproductive, if you stop and think. Stasis is the equivalent of entropy in certain respects.
I can't pronounce the names of any number of gods of my African ancestors, but I'm Agnostic because I feel as if I cannot make a statement for or against the existence of a god or gods, therefore, I believe that my guess is as good as anyone else's.
Atheist, Was it your liberal education, your parents, or just your own?
My own what... lawn mower? Shotgun? 401k?
Hey fstdt board, I'm back!
No, I read the fucking Bible!
I'm not an atheist. I'm a recent convert to Penguinism, which, by the way, isn't a religion. It's a personal relationship with The Great Emperor.
When I was little, I was taught that there were two wise old men who lived far above me, with long white beards, who watched over me and rewarded me for the good things I did, and punished me for the bad things I did. When I turned thirteen, I was supposed to stop believing in one, but keep believing in the other. Trouble was, I couldn't figure out which was which.
Fundie, was it your pastors brainwashing, your parents mental illness or just your own inner retardedness that led you to turn your back on the atheism that brought you the highest standard of living in the world?
My country (Finland) has the majority of the population of Christians. However, more than ten thousand years ago, my ancestors were pagans who worshipped bears as gods. This has been our native religion for much longer in the past than Christianity has, so according to your reasoning, my religion should be that of the wood-dwelling pagans.
I actually find the said religion more appealing than Christianity.
I do not desire to do as I please... oh, wait that would be doing as I please...
Can't turn my back on something that is make believe. And I'd like to thank my teachers, my parents, my community, and everyone else who helped me be the person I am today.
PS My ancestors were Native American
Atheist, Was it your liberal education, your parents, or just your own?...inner desire to do what ever you please with no consequences or repercussion (spiritually) that led you to turn your back on the God of your ancestors.? Just asking.
I didn't have a "liberal education". I attended Christian schools my entire scholastic career--even college. In fact, it was the immersion in theist teachings that brought me around to atheism.
Odin, Thor, Zeus, Moloch - sorry that's the christian one, Isis, Manitou?
"Atheist, Was it your liberal education, your parents, or just your own?"
Nah, reading the bible is usually enough to make a person an atheist.
Christian, was it your indoctrination, your parents, or just your own inner conviction you were born sinful that led you to claim to 'be saved' by the God of a tribe of nomadic bronze age goat-herds from halfway around the world? Just fixing.
And have you stopped sexually violating children with 7Up bottles filled with hydrochloric acid and LSD?
Just asking.
(Complex questions suck, don't they? Ass.)
More like realizing that even though there is a God of some sort, he/she/it (that drives you crazy doesn't it... :P) doesn't give much of a shit about what we do. And that Judaism is just one of many many ways to feel a connection to that God-like whatever. And that my religion is really more about community than God anyway.
And I believe that, and you can call me an atheist or a pagan if you want. But it's not true.
The gods of my ancestors were Odin, Tor, Freja, Loke and all the other viking gods, but I never really thought they were real, you know, myths just like all the other gods.
Considering my ancestors were Irish/Scottish, then using your argument, by following Christ, I have turned my back on Woden, Danu, Morrigan, Taranis, Dagda etc...
None of the above. I arrived at it pretty much myself, although I admit that Dawkins' "The God Delusion" was the last tiny little shove that I needed to get off the fence of agnosticism.
I call it progress. My ancestors may have believed in God or gods, but they also had no electricity, no indoor plumbing, and a life expectancy of about 35 if they were lucky.
You go on living in the past if you want. Me, I'm happy where I am.
Nope, I had a socialist education.
If I do something wrong which harms someone else, I feel bad (spiritually) because I have harmed someone. Not because some god or other might be mad at me.
The gods of my ancestors are the Aesir gods. The turning of backs on them was done in the 1100 century. I wasn't even born then, so I think I'm fairly innocent of that. Just saying.
I heard of God when I was 6, at school, because we had the choice between a lesson of religion and of secular moral. I was in moral, and I asked the others what the God thing was all about. They told me, and I found it stupid. I have always been able to think by myself, I tried thinking about God, and praying, but it didn't seem right to me, it was like speaking to yourself or to an imaginary friend.
Definitely I am sure there is no God.
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