| Poll: Atheists: Are the words "sin" ad "hell" trigger words to you? This poll is closed. |
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| Yes, although I never believed in such notions. | 1 | 4.55% | |
| Yes, I used to believe and now that I don't, the prospect of such things is upsetting | 3 | 13.64% | |
| No, I have never considered them to be trigger words | 9 | 40.91% | |
| No, I used to be a believer but now that I'm not I don't have any sensitivity to these words | 8 | 36.36% | |
| (This one's for Min) Fuck off | 1 | 4.55% | |
| Total | 22 vote(s) | 100% | |
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Are the words "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
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 RE: Are the words "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
January 2, 2017 at 3:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2017 at 3:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
"Sin" and "hell" aren't really trigger words for me in the sense of stimulating violent emotion. Instead I am bemused by the fact that they reflect the "fathers"' of the church's perceived need to add this - yet another dimension of farcical grossness - to the overall fraud of Christianity.
 (January 2, 2017 at 3:07 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: "Sin" and "hell" aren't really trigger words for me in the sense of stimulating violent emotion. Instead I am bemused by the fact that they reflect the "fathers"' of the church's perceived need to add this - yet another dimension of farcical grossness - to the overall fraud of Christianity. If I wasn't positive that there were children crying themselves to sleep at night because of being told about these things, I might find it funny too. But I just can't do that.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
--- There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views. 
No it's just extremely annoying
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
Inuit Proverb (January 2, 2017 at 2:55 pm)Loading Please Wait Wrote:(January 1, 2017 at 9:18 pm)Luckie Wrote: Explain how that's better than saying, "I understand how horrible and traumatic that was, so I'll avoid bringing up the subject as best I can unless you feel like talking about it." There's a reason there are specific types of counseling just for rape victims and specific types of counseling for those with severe phobias centered around the idea of hell they were taught.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
--- There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
Not in the slightest.
 RE: Are the words "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists?
January 3, 2017 at 12:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2017 at 12:07 pm by Mystical.)
(January 2, 2017 at 2:55 pm)Loading Please Wait Wrote:(January 1, 2017 at 9:18 pm)Luckie Wrote: Sorry cupcake, there's no proof of an afterlife, or a god of any manner (actually rather the opposite) and those are facts.You obviously choose to live in a dilution so I can't much help you. Quote:Just like those who are offended with the Trump presidency saying "Trump's not my President!" Well you know what they say about small hands, and small brains. Or was it small hands small dicks? I forget. Go giggity over his orangeness elsewhere, this is a grown up thread kkkkkkkkk.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite. Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment. Quote:Some people deserve hell. I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong. ![[Image: tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/5fb74c6d16622fb3dbb358509c9aec03/tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif)
Trump's not my president.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite. Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment. Quote:Some people deserve hell. I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
How about:
Guide Guidance Path Way Light (January 3, 2017 at 8:32 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: How about: Anagrams to "watch huge genitalia giddy-up".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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