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    Thread: "Thank God!"
Post: RE: "Thank God!"
Yep. Whenever there's a disaster that kills many, but one or two people are found alive, it's a miracle!!! and the focus is always on how god saved (or spared) the one or two, but not on how god allow...
 HappyHumanist Converts' Corner 18 7208 October 28, 2012 at 2:02 pm
    Thread: "Thank God!"
Post: RE: "Thank God!"
Me too. I've been trying to say "Thank goodness" instead, but it's still a weird phrase. Sometimes I'll go with "It's fortunate/lucky that..." When someone sneezes, I say "Gesundheit" instead of "Go...
 HappyHumanist Converts' Corner 18 7208 October 28, 2012 at 12:35 pm
    Thread: The Great Pumpkin!
Post: The Great Pumpkin!
Every Halloween, the newspaper comics rerun the "Peanuts" series about how poor, misguided Linus worships The Great Pumpkin. Remind you of anything?
 HappyHumanist Atheism 3 1330 October 28, 2012 at 12:04 pm
    Thread: I basically came out to my mom...
Post: RE: I basically came out to my mom...
Maybe your mom is an atheist at heart!
 HappyHumanist Atheism 13 5072 July 30, 2012 at 5:37 pm
    Thread: Finding Out [Whoever] Believes in God
Post: RE: Finding Out [Whoever] Believes in God
I didn't mean to imply that I think religious people are less intelligent. Or that all atheists are intelligent (my boss is an atheist and he's an idiot). I guess I'm not clear on what I meant, even ...
 HappyHumanist Atheism 43 14369 July 28, 2012 at 11:07 am
    Thread: Why I Won't "Come Out" to Dad
Post: RE: Why I Won't "Come Out" to Dad
(July 27, 2012 at 5:23 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Are you sure that the god he believes in would not allow you into the big family reunion? Not all theists, especially those that aren't fundamentalists, b...
 HappyHumanist Atheism 20 5056 July 27, 2012 at 5:37 pm
    Thread: Finding Out [Whoever] Believes in God
Post: Finding Out [Whoever] Believes in God
When you find out that someone you admire and respect -- someone who is very intelligent and otherwise full of common sense -- believes in god, does your opinion of him/her take a nosedive? I do unde...
 HappyHumanist Atheism 43 14369 July 27, 2012 at 4:52 pm
    Thread: Why I Won't "Come Out" to Dad
Post: RE: Why I Won't "Come Out" to Dad
Quote:...one life is long enough with the same people Depends on the life. My younger brother was the best of our family, and he died after a too-short life. An eternity with my older half-brothers...
 HappyHumanist Atheism 20 5056 July 27, 2012 at 4:16 pm
    Thread: Why I Won't "Come Out" to Dad
Post: Why I Won't "Come Out" to Dad
I will never tell my father I am an atheist. Here's why: He's not very religious and doesn't go to church, but he believes in god and that loved ones are reunited after death. He is comforted by th...
 HappyHumanist Atheism 20 5056 July 27, 2012 at 3:41 pm
    Thread: "Thank God!"
Post: "Thank God!"
Anyone remember when that airliner hit a bridge, crushed several vehicles, and then crashed into the frozen Potomac river in the early 80s? Because of the crash location, news crews were there as qui...
 HappyHumanist Converts' Corner 18 7208 July 13, 2012 at 6:14 pm