(May 3, 2016 at 11:07 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: GC believes that if you used to believe and don't now, then you were never a True Christian. It's his convenient way of dismissing/ignoring anyone who used to buy into the same nonsense he does but was smart enough to extricate their brains from it.
GC probably thinks atheists never call each other out when they say "no real atheist" or "no true atheist". I call other atheists out all the time who pull that. Not even atheists agree on all things all the time.
You will never find any type of perfectly unifying label. Even under shared ideas there are always people who differ in views and not even atheists escape this.
If anyone has been following the Trump thread, they'd know, while most the atheist here don't like him, a couple atheists do. Just like Sunnis and Shiites are both Muslims. Just like Catholics and Baptists have the same God of Jesus. Just like Japanese Buddhists don't agree with Chinese Buddhists who don't agree with Tibet's Buddhists.
All 7 billion of us are the same species. Our labels are not magic, no label has magic powers. All nations have prisons and hospitals. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our species, not our labels. Religion is nothing more than the artificial excuse humans invent to create social pecking orders.