I've finally awakened!

[Strongbad]

Welcome.

You may not believe it, but we get a fair number of theists coming here claiming to be atheists. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but I will be slightly suspicious until I see a few more of your posts.

[liam]

good morning, atheism isn't just like waking up from a bad dream where a sexually-repressed tyrant is controlling you, its like waking up from aforementioned nightmare, except to bacon! (a superfluous analogy, indeed.)

[Minimalist]

Your friendly Air Traffic Control Atheist

When those dots on the screen don't come together that is you doing it...not some god.

Hi, Marc.

[AtcAtheist]

Thanks for the welcome everyone!

Please post more in the Conversion Corner of how this actually went down..

Will do!

And air traffic control? That's cool!

You may not believe it, but we get a fair number of theists coming here claiming to be atheists. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but I will be slightly suspicious until I see a few more of your posts.

Totally understood. I don't blame ya.

When those dots on the screen don't come together that is you doing it...not some god.

Now that you mention it - I have power like a god, moving tons of metal around, directing them where to go, with just my voice, hundreds or thousands of lives at my mercy... Maybe I'm the God of air travel..?? Makes sense..

[Erinome]

I became an atheist by reading the bible too. Welcome to AF!

[Minimalist]

Maybe I'm the God of air travel..??

Tell a plane full of jesus freaks that unless they pray to you you will direct them into a mountain.

See how fast they tell jesus to go fuck himself.

[AtcAtheist]

Tell a plane full of jesus freaks that unless they pray to you you will direct them into a mountain.

See how fast they tell jesus to go fuck himself.

LOL, maybe I'll try that on the last day before I retire!!

I actually had a pilot tell me "God Bless You" over the frequency the other day. I tried not to laugh, but I just said, "Ok, thanks, have a nice day."

[Cyberman]

I use (popular YouTuber) Desertphile's response to someone saying "bless you": "I did not sneeze."

[Reforged]

Well hi there, let me give you a heartwarming introduction to this little pocket of existence.
Now I know you came here thinking you'd find a hub of intellectual conversation but guess what? Nope. Not going to happen.
Instead you are going to find yourself being horrified, frustrated and baffled as nutcases who demonstrate all the personality of arse cancer express their utterly unbacked views and seem shocked you don't just take their quoted verses as proof that you are living in a universe controlled by whatever strange closet case of a deity they happen to be pitching. Sometimes they'll use metaphysics which by its very definition is unknowable and undetectable by us and so we cannot hope to entertain any idea of forming accurate concepts within it... and then claim their deity falls into that category apparently dead to the self-contradictory irony of their utterly ridiculous proposition. And yes, you will find people who believe we are the result of cavemen being fucked by aliens. Infact you'll find all sorts of strange little people who just trample in apparently not satisfied with whatever other forums and strange sexual fetishes they have available to them on the world wide web. Inevitably you will encounter stupidity on a scale that will make you want to gouge your eyes out and throw them at your screen.
Eventually you'll learn to accept this with wry bemusement and a slightly sado masochistic edge. You'll laugh at the absurdity of it but it will be a dead, hollow laugh that will reflect the utter hopelessness of the situation.
You'll slowly come to realize you are a sane member of an insane species purposely segmented into so many pieces it resembles the shreded remains of a masterpiece that vandals have taken a slightly watery shit on, you are Jack Nicholson in "One flew out of the cuckoos nest", you are utterly fucked.
Welcome. :-)

[jonb]

Well hi there, let me give you a heartwarming introduction to this little pocket of existence.
Now I know you came here thinking you'd find a hub of intellectual conversation but guess what? Nope. Not going to happen.
Instead you are going to find yourself being horrified, frustrated and baffled as nutcases who demonstrate all the personality of arse cancer express their utterly unbacked views and seem shocked you don't just take their quoted verses as proof that you are living in a universe controlled by whatever strange closet case of a deity they happen to be pitching. Sometimes they'll use metaphysics which by its very definition is unknowable and undetectable by us and so we cannot hope to entertain any idea of forming accurate concepts within it... and then claim their deity falls into that category apparently dead to the self-contradictory irony of their utterly ridiculous proposition. And yes, you will find people who believe we are the result of cavemen being fucked by aliens. Infact you'll find all sorts of strange little people who just trample in apparently not satisfied with whatever other forums and strange sexual fetishes they have available to them on the world wide web. You'll encounter stupidity on a scale that will make you want to gouge your eyes out and throw them at your screen.
Eventually you'll learn to accept this with wry bemusement and a slightly sado masochistic edge. You'll laugh at the absurdity of it but it will be a dead, hollow laugh that will reflect the utter hopelessness of the situation.
You'll slowly come to realize you are a sane member of an insane species purposely segmented into so many pieces it resembles the shreded remains of a masterpiece that vandals have taken a slightly watery shit on, you are Jack Nicholson in "One flew out of the cuckoos nest", you are utterly fucked.
Welcome. :-)

Raphiel; it usually takes new members a while to get to know me. Then after me there are christians here as well, I would get my coat now if I were you.