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The Friendly Atheist

Open discussions about the ideas of atheism vs. religion

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Positive Atheism?

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A young lady discusses her journey from being a Christian to an atheist in this video, her sentiments list a common journey many brought into a faith have, and a similar road out.

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PITY PITY

she is very upfront and should be geting a damn award for this
there is nothing wrong with being an Atheism
and if more people would just shut the hell up and see if they can see it from our veiw then this world would be a better place
iam not saying that any one is wrong or right iam just saying that people need to stop judgeing other's souly on the relige
rilige is not evil but it is the mean reson fpr over 70% of all the war's in the world if people would sit down and find another way to get there openyen out then maybe we can lve in a wovld where we dont have to fear our next door naber

as i sayed no one is right or wrong
just not understanding

By speed, # 27. January 2008, 21:26:23

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Very true what you say ohmarrow, the lady in the video is direct and to the point, which is the reason I thought it was interesting, and I should post it. In my circle of friends, I am the only atheist, with many being "religious" (a belief in god(s)) and others being active in their respective churches. Though we are friends, and I am accepted for my beliefs, I often get that "I feel sorry for you because you don't believe in god(s)." Ironically, this is often how I feel for those who do believe in god(s), since I do not understand how anyone can truly believe in any creation story, that said that does not mean I don't feel you have the right to believe in god(s), it just means I don't understand your beliefs. I guess, since I've run the gamut from devout christain to non-believer, I would suppose all adults (like the girl in the video) would undergo the same transformation, kinda how a kind stops believing in santa as they grow older. Either way, this is an interesting subject, and I always find it interesting to find what people have to say, so thanks for the comment.

By beenpimped, # 27. January 2008, 22:36:05

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well if you think about people need hope and " god " gives this hope only when you find out that you dont need that hope do ever stop believeing in god ...
and i know how you feel about your friends all my friend but 1 are religes but they all know how i feel about religen i have nothing agants it but it not for me

iam an artis and all my friend ask my to paint the cross but there are two thing i dont paint religen and the govenrment

and i what to know how our government can say they keep riliegan out of the governmemt when we still say in god we trust and so much more if you ever get a chance look at all the diffearnt religes stuff in the goernment

sorry got to go for a few
ill be back in an hour

By speed, # 27. January 2008, 23:06:28

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that's i think is the crutch many people use when it comes to religion, which is odd to me, but growing up in a culture dominated in this "spirit" it is persuasive i guess...regarding religion and politics, i cannot believe that someone like Mike Huckabee is running for president...the dude doesn't believe in evolution and we expect him to run the u.s., makes me laugh when we see the decline in education in the u.s., seriously relgion and politics need to be as separate as a lit match and a gallon of gasoline. cheers, sorry i didn't see your response yesterday. cheers!

By beenpimped, # 29. January 2008, 01:28:57

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its ok

the way i see it it riligon does die out then were all screwed
riligon is the back bone of many country's and loseing it could kill then
now as for the bible
if you do some research youll see that the bible does have some truth to it
but i feel that a most of it was blone way out of praporshion and its that that has so may people sorry to say brine washed
think about it from a gameing view it takes a good mind to come up with the game plot and how the charicter will look and act it a lot like wrighting a book

and its not that hard the see a little kid acting and playing with his friend's
and at the time the bible was being wrote humans as a hole dident have a good cense of understanding when it thundered we just thoung zus was pisst off !!! so maybe the human mind was just trying to undwerstand what we only now understand
and yes we even now dont understand all the bible has to say

i feel the bible was a sort of story book or dayly life acount of some one and it just got so embalished we all started to believe it was to word of * god *

if you think the burning bush
hell maybe it was some stupid ass fucking around with then and they all thougt it was god becuase they dident have the understanding to disprove it or they where so damn scared they run for the hill's and layter sayed it was god how know !!!

By speed, # 29. January 2008, 03:00:43

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good points there ohmarow, i would agree with what you have said above. the use of the bible as an inspired word seems odd, especially considering those who take it as a literal translation. i do think the bible has some good points regarding how one should live their life, but to call it an inspired word is a far stretch for me - of course, this is just my opinion.

By beenpimped, # 8. February 2008, 22:11:48

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and how old are you again ???
you talk like you 35 !!!

By speed, # 8. February 2008, 22:25:43

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lol, damn i sure get that a lot, i'm not quite 30, but i've been told i'm any where from 35 to 70...guess, mentally i'm not, but physically i often feel like it.

By beenpimped, # 8. February 2008, 22:28:26

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ok then

o why one more thing the girl is right if so many religens are out there how can any one say theres is the right one to join or is the almightys soul choice and only those how join it will be saved

and if god does exist and only one religen is right and every one how dosent join it goes to hell no wounder the world is so FUCK UP these days
hell god * if you do exist * get your act together
were not all ass holes you know some of us are preaty nice people !!!
but more inmortantly how can we say that god ever sayed that only one
religen is right maybe there all right
iam shore if this almight one can see aall and knows all then shorly he can see were going to hell in a hamster ball !!!
the world as we know it is falling apart ...

but you know we do have to ask our self what about the big boom or what ever you call it how did we all come to be ???
we may naver know but i still look at every thing from a open view there things in these world we cant explane * ghost *
ok i know your thinging iam crazy but iev seen things you can explane
hell last week i saw some thing that was like a shadow moveing in my room ok its not much but when it goes on for years and years and you try everthing you know the to explane it away and nothing works you have to think is there more out there that we dont understand

all tho i was thinking what if a ghost is just energy it not all that hard to think that maybe energy can change to fit its needs

i mean the humen brain uses energy the think move the body and make the heart bet so way cant it change to sot its needs

i cant spell the word so il just sat thunder lol

the brain uses thunder to do every think you do the thunder in your brain keeps you alive and its that thunder that holds your thounght and memorys and if real thunder can more from on object to another then why not the thunder in the brain

well ill stop there for now if i go any forther i my never stop p:

By speed, # 8. February 2008, 23:19:49

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hi ohmarrow, i'll try to answer this as best as i can, but i thought this reply was an excellent starting point for a new entry, i'll post as soon as i finish writing it. great stuff, really neat too.

By beenpimped, # 9. February 2008, 23:24:28

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thankes i try to seem smart and not like a monkey with a banana in a lab

By speed, # 10. February 2008, 00:49:43

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yo iam back sorry but my old acout is crazy so i made a new one ok and yes its me ohmarow
i dont know what happend but all my stuff is now under the name of speed
so iam back sorry i toke so long to come back so do you have any thing to add or not ???

By darkHeartLord, # 26. February 2008, 15:34:54

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Great vid. Love it. I don't care how "loving" or "caring" or "forgiving" or "generous" a religion calls on a person to be, they all require that the believer look down on those who are not members.

By coldstatue, # 4. July 2008, 09:55:52

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yape

By darkHeartLord, # 4. July 2008, 18:02:22

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