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Hello
July 13, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I've been an atheist officially for a couple years now. Unofficially I've always been uncomfortable at church and thought i was a bad person for not believing,I wanted to believe so much i was almost baptized, but my, non practicing christian, family talked me out of it. I didnt want to be labeled atheist because in my mind it was a word for ignorant people who just argued because they could. Over time(im only 16 so by time i mean through middle school) i started questioning why i was the evil one and that led me to be comfortable with my non-beliefs. I hope to have fun and learn some things while i get to know some fellow "evil"-doers
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Welcome to AF! It's really too bad that the word 'atheist' has such a negative connotation, but it isn't really surprising considering...
The Devil Worship ceremonies are on Saturdays. Roasted Baby is served daily. Enjoy.
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2010 at 6:02 pm
It's better for you that, at 16, you have the common sense to reject dogma.
Welcome to the forums, hope you find what you're looking for.
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RE: Hello
July 14, 2010 at 4:29 am
Welcome to the forums. Good to hear about your final official loss of faith. Nothing "Evil" about atheism it's just an absence of belief in gods.
We don't worship Satan because - at least normally - we don't believe in Satan either. Satan is like another deity, or god, really isn't it? Like God's supposedly "Evil" twin. Although Yahweh in fact appears to be much more Evil than Satan if you go by the actions of both in the Bible and do a comparison.
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RE: Hello
July 14, 2010 at 4:48 am
welcome
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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i know its not evil, but it was my first impression of atheism.
