(June 24, 2011 at 1:43 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: You said in your introduction, you were a christian from birth. That means you didn't choose. If you were born in Palestine you would be a Muslim, tel aviv, a Jew etc.
Free thinker applies to me and other atheists because we are not locked by religious dogma. We don't do what the churches say, we do what we know to be right.
We believe in evolution (generally) and we definitely do not believe the Jewish Zombie who is his own father born to a virginal mother, who died, came back to life 3 days later, walking on water nonsense.
A freethinker who uses simple reason understands that this is not possible.
To put mildly, a freethinker is someone who is a thinking person. Anyone who genuinely believes desert goat herder nonsense, is not a thinking person.
Please don't resort to belittling my beliefs and calling Jesus a 'zombie'. Yes, but I could have changed my beliefs later in life, but I didn't. I believe in evolution too, and I don't believe all of what the Bible says to be true, only some of it. I made a choice not to believe in the ridiculous things in the Bible. Doesn't that make me a freethinker by that logic? I still hold true to my belief that Agnostics are the only freethinkers, though. In any case, I have to leave now, I look forward to talking about this later with you all.
