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New To Here
#11
RE: New To Here
Welcome to the forums! I think your forum signature pretty much sums up every year Big Grin
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#12
RE: New To Here
(May 17, 2009 at 9:04 am)Reinette Renee Wrote: I feel there is so much we do not know, so i claim i know nothing.

Wise position, I suppose in this sense I'm agnostic, but to paraphrase Dawkins, I'm as agnostic about god as I am about faeries.
And claiming absolute knowledge can make you a close-minded person.

I also liked your point about Zeus, you're right, he's just as valid as the christian god.

(May 17, 2009 at 9:04 am)Reinette Renee Wrote: I feel that if there was a god then he would be more pleased with me that i lead a good life as in i did good things then i believed blindly and did evil things.

That's of course if the god happens to be a loving, caring one, like some theists claim.

But because there's no evidence of a god, you can't really say anything about what his/her/it's attributes would be if it existed.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
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#13
RE: New To Here
Welcome to the forums!
Personally, it's not God I dislike, it's his fan club I can't stand.
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#14
RE: New To Here
A warm welcome Renee! Smile

So did you have a sudden realisation of your disbelief or was it a slow process?
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#15
RE: New To Here
Welcome Renee!

I was raised christian too... but now... thank god I'm an atheist Wink

I hope you enjoy it here! I do Smile
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful with out having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it to?" -Douglas Adams.Heart
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#16
RE: New To Here
Quote:So did you have a sudden realisation of your disbelief or was it a slow process?

well i would say it was a slow process but then i never really fully [/quote]ever believed it was just something i was told to believe. i guess you could say i was one of those week Christians.
Confusedhock: Its the Year 2009 And the Entire World is still at war Argue over who has the most Powerful Invisible Friend.:bow::angel2:
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#17
RE: New To Here
Was it perhaps that you WANTED to believe do you think? Or HOPED there was a God? Or did you just not know of an alternative or something like that and/so as you said; you just believed it because it was just something that you were told to believe?

Or...other?

EvF
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