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The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief
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RE: The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief
July 26, 2013 at 1:13 am
(July 25, 2013 at 8:20 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Except for communists, the atheists are people who rather dwell on the simple pleasures of life. They are not bothered with anything else, and they disregard any other notions around them.

How do you know ALL atheists (except for commies) are hedonists? A bit pretentious, aren't we?

You cannot make statements of this kind. Usually, different atheists will have different reasons and also different ways of living their atheism. One might abandon himself to earthly pleasure, but one might as well be opposed to such a way of life. There is no universality within atheism.
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RE: The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief
July 26, 2013 at 1:47 am
(July 25, 2013 at 8:20 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Well, do you see any other type of atheist around here? I really don't.
Same for the ones around here. Except for communists, the atheists are people who rather dwell on the simple pleasures of life. They are not bothered with anything else, and they disregard any other notions around them.

I've never understood this: why wouldn't one want to enjoy the pleasures of life, especially when one is of a mind that it's the life that we get? Where's the negative connotation? What's wrong with enjoying yourself?

Happily, to myself and a lot of other atheists, examining those "other notions" happen to be a part of those pleasures that we enjoy. Intellectual pleasure is still pleasure.
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RE: The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief
July 26, 2013 at 1:57 am
(July 26, 2013 at 1:47 am)Esquilax Wrote: why wouldn't one want to enjoy the pleasures of life, especially when one is of a mind that it's the life that we get? Where's the negative connotation?

Supposedly, enjoying the pleasures of life detracts from one's spiritual journey toward better understanding god.
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RE: The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief
July 26, 2013 at 2:28 am
(July 26, 2013 at 1:57 am)Maelstrom Wrote:
(July 26, 2013 at 1:47 am)Esquilax Wrote: why wouldn't one want to enjoy the pleasures of life, especially when one is of a mind that it's the life that we get? Where's the negative connotation?

Supposedly, enjoying the pleasures of life detracts from one's spiritual journey toward better understanding god.

Yeah, I didn't think there was a reason either. Tongue
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RE: The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief
July 26, 2013 at 11:32 am
(July 25, 2013 at 8:20 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Well, do you see any other type of atheist around here? I really don't.
Same for the ones around here. Except for communists, the atheists are people who rather dwell on the simple pleasures of life. They are not bothered with anything else, and they disregard any other notions around them.

That's an awful blank assertion.
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RE: The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief
July 26, 2013 at 11:42 am
(July 26, 2013 at 11:32 am)CleanShavenJesus Wrote:
(July 25, 2013 at 8:20 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Well, do you see any other type of atheist around here? I really don't.
Same for the ones around here. Except for communists, the atheists are people who rather dwell on the simple pleasures of life. They are not bothered with anything else, and they disregard any other notions around them.

That's an awful blank assertion.

Yup, he's always shooting blanks.
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