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Born A Heathen
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Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
Half Baked "Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon 
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
Professional Watcher of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report! 
LastPoet
 Leader of the gang of jerkoffs(tm)  Religious Views: L'Uomo verrà portato dalla sua creazione Enjoy the forums.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK "That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke 
Hello and welcome to AF! ^_^
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
 I was about opening a thread about your case.  Welcome again
* Illusion is a big world ... and the world is a bigger illusion.
* Try to live happy ... try to make others live happy. 
From one born Heathen to another, Welcome
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies: Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain  (May 8, 2013 at 4:42 pm)aerengarth Wrote: I was born a nonbeliever, and I stayed that way because my parents never tried to cram religion down my throat. It only reinforces my understanding of how humans adopt religion. Religion is not freely chosen by most. For most, they are fed religion as absolute fact when we don't know any better, and when we grow older, since religion is the foundation we built our lives on, we dare not remove it for fear of our entire lives becoming broken. It is easy to accept answers for everything. It is difficult to search for the real ones. Couldn't have put it better myself. Welcome to the forums.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  (May 8, 2013 at 6:05 pm)goodnews Wrote: May I ask, why you are an (Anti)-theist/against the belief in creation by one God, opposed to an atheist who believes their is no God, you see you can not be against something if you dont believe it exists, based on what you have written, I "think" you are Anti-religious and wrightly so, as all religions especially "christiandom" are completely corrupted and defiled and spread nothing but lies and deceit, the irony is this portrayal of religion I write you is scriptual, go figure ! As best as I can tell, Anti-Theists means against theism, a belief system. Yes, you could use anti-religious, but Anti-theist is the more familiar term to most.
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." ~ Albert Einstein
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