(April 1, 2014 at 7:28 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: So! I told a few of my offline friends who are atheists this same joke, and they didn't laugh. Lol
Aw man!

But you guys are the fun ones.

I am noooo longer ur boytoy....rrrrrrrrr

(April 1, 2014 at 10:48 am)Kitanetos Wrote: . One is not born a theist. Theism is taught. Therefore, the only correct terminology is that one converts to theism.

Well strictly speaking, yeah, .. but we are born dumb and gullible, and we learn to be smart and skeptical. You could call the "falling for the cons of religion" to be an artifact of people's uneducated gullibility.

(April 1, 2014 at 7:38 pm)Beccs Wrote:

(April 1, 2014 at 7:28 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: So! I told a few of my offline friends who are atheists this same joke, and they didn't laugh. Lol
Aw man!

But you guys are the fun ones.

Anonymous people on the internet are more fun than your friends . . .


Hmmmm . . . .

Lol hmmmm

Well, one of them has seen me through the tough transitional time I had leaving religion. So, he was mad. Lol

While it was just a joke, it made me wonder if clinging to religion looks like an addiction to outliers. And if they are there for you during your breaking away from it, the thought of you returning to it might anger them as if you're returning to drugs or something. Idk if that makes sense but crossed my mind today with his reaction.

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(April 1, 2014 at 7:55 pm)Brakeman Wrote:

(April 1, 2014 at 10:48 am)Kitanetos Wrote: . One is not born a theist. Theism is taught. Therefore, the only correct terminology is that one converts to theism.

Well strictly speaking, yeah, .. but we are born dumb and gullible, and we learn to be smart and skeptical. You could call the "falling for the cons of religion" to be an artifact of people's uneducated gullibility.

True in some senses, but there's some highly educated Catholic clergy out there. So, what do you make of them?

Maybe faith is a choice, like anything else. See to me, it's not a choice to be an atheist, that seems like a natural state of being.

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(April 1, 2014 at 7:53 pm)truthBtold Wrote:

(April 1, 2014 at 7:28 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: So! I told a few of my offline friends who are atheists this same joke, and they didn't laugh. Lol
Aw man!

But you guys are the fun ones.

I am noooo longer ur boytoy....rrrrrrrrr

April fool's? Yes? No?

Doh.

(April 1, 2014 at 7:57 pm)Deidre32 Wrote:

(April 1, 2014 at 7:55 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Well strictly speaking, yeah, .. but we are born dumb and gullible, and we learn to be smart and skeptical. You could call the "falling for the cons of religion" to be an artifact of people's uneducated gullibility.

True in some senses, but there's some highly educated Catholic clergy out there. So, what do you make of them?

Lying bastards ... Con men in it for the game.