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Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?

Poll: Are you less happy now that you are an atheist because of just loosing the belief?
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No, I am just as happy or happier discovering reality, not withstanding any outside effects by the believers.
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Yes, I am less happy overall, ignorance is bliss.
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Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?
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RE: Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?
November 20, 2013 at 11:52 am
(November 20, 2013 at 10:55 am)Raven Wrote: For anyone who is a Recovering Catholic (no 12 step silliness needed), I don't see how you could NOT feel a whole lot better. Damn, just getting away from those sadistic nuns (primary school) and brothers (High School) made you feel a whole lot better.

Luckily as a Catholic kid I didn't go to Catholic school. My brothers and sisters did, though.

Quote: But you are still stuck feeling all that anxiety. That's one of the things all that programming and guilt-tripping did to me. I felt like crap all the time, because you got programmed to.

Yes, because in the religion classes I had they taught that just about everything you do is a sin. No wonder I was so neurotic in my young life.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist? - by Doubting Thomas - November 20, 2013 at 11:52 am

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