(August 20, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Zidneya Wrote:

1. Atheists have higher incomes. (10-15% higher, according to 1989 study)
   
2. Atheists are still married longer. (21% of atheists have been divorced vs 29% for Christians) Barna - Research Group 1999
   
3. Atheists are less likely to end up in jail. (Atheists comprise 15% of the population of America, however, only 1% of the prison population are non-believers.)
   
4. Atheists are more likely to climb to the top of the academy. (97% of the National Academy of Sciences members are atheists.'s 3,200 members, comprising more than 200 recipients Noble Laureate)
   
5. Atheists are less likely to succumb to the temptation of authoritarian regimes that promise miraculous and divine decrees sent. Do you think Hitler could have convinced a nation of secularists / atheists who slaughtered Jews was a good way to spend a Sunday? But much easier to do when working with the devotees of Martin Luther antisemitic.
   
6. Atheists live longer and happier, according to a 2009 survey conducted by the Erasmus University of Rotterdam
   
7. Atheists do not have to hate anyone. There is no doctrine that promotes violence against believers.
   
8. Atheists have higher growth in moral development. Famous American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg writes that at the highest levels of moral development - moral judgments must be justified by rational moral reasons rather than appeal to the order of nature or religious authority or revelation. While Freud suggests that religion serves to undermine the moral responsibility while promoting fanaticism, he said that people who behave morally only for fear of supernatural punishment is unlikely to respect and care for others from an altruistic perspective.
   
9. Atheists reach deeper levels of critical thinking and free thought.
   
10. Atheists are more open, aware and responsible when it comes to family planning with their partners. They don't fear or avoid discussing abortions nor contraceptives.
    

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May I ask were did you get your info.Either that or you and I have very different definitions of the word misery.

(August 20, 2014 at 10:16 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:

(August 20, 2014 at 5:35 pm)greekGod Wrote: The list can go on and on for days of the negatives of being an atheist.

If you'd like to go on for days proving your ignorance of reality, by all means, please do. I'm sure the entertainment value will be high as everyone here mocks you incessantly.

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(August 20, 2014 at 6:44 pm)Beccs Wrote: Yup.

I'm so miserable I'm having a party at my house this weekend and all my AF friends are invited.

Let's have an orgy!

I'm down!

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(August 20, 2014 at 6:48 pm)Beccs Wrote: Isn't monogamy a type of wood?

Only at first.

(August 20, 2014 at 10:50 pm)greekGod Wrote:

(August 20, 2014 at 10:31 pm)Zidneya Wrote: I think he is gonna get banned before he gets to reply any of my points. That is of course if he decides to reply them.

Want to know the hidden truth? I as a theist secretly want to become a god and reign over underlings one day.

Unfortunately, we were born centuries too early - but eons from now we the human race will reach enlightmennt equivelent of the gods.

Lucifer achieved that level of intelligence when he challenged Enki/Jehova/Zeus (pretty much the god that founded this forsaken planet). "The bringer of light" tried to give Eve the knowledge of the gods (our creators) and was cast away to hell (Earth) from paradise (Osirus constellation).

Unfortunately, only certain societies know this story - and over the time have been converted into various religions.

Am I an atheist wanting to believe in a god? Only to fantasies that one day we can achieve that level?...YES

But If there are no gods, then what's the point of achieving spiritual enlightment and advancing the human race?

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