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Poll: Atheists: Are the words "sin" ad "hell" trigger words to you?
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Yes, although I never believed in such notions.
4.55%
1 4.55%
Yes, I used to believe and now that I don't, the prospect of such things is upsetting
13.64%
3 13.64%
No, I have never considered them to be trigger words
40.91%
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
36.36%
8 36.36%
(This one's for Min) Fuck off
4.55%
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)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?

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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.
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RE: Are the words "Sin" and "Hell" a trigger to you Atheists? - by Astonished - January 2, 2017 at 3:29 pm

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