Hello world!

[Deckard]

Hey all,

Joined here to basically have a safe place to vent my frustrations without upsetting religious folk.

I'm a member of a quit smoking forum and the amount of prayers and work of god that seems to be going on in there is remarkable, obviously not the right place to start questioning their beliefs.

Equally at work, we have 2 creationist Christians and 2 Muslims... As you might expect, not the right place to talk about these things.

So here I am! From the UK. Never believed in the beardy gentleman upstairs and simply do not understand why anyone would.

I'm a regular viewer of the atheist experience on YouTube and watch a lot of Dawkins, Hitchins etc. Love science, physics in particular.

Any questions just ask!

Cheers

[ITChick]

Hello and welcome!

Yeah - the last thing you want to do is to question the faith of someone who is quitting smoking.

How are you doing with that? (The quit smoking thing)

Edit: You will still upset our local theists, but most of them can handle it.

[Darwinian]

Hi and welcome. What part of the U.K. are you from because here in sunny Gosport there are hardly any people like that.

[Deckard]

I live in Norwich. Currently at 197 days smoke free.

The work thing largely due to home countries of the employees. 1 American, 2 Nigerians, 1 Pakistan... All the British guys are atheist... One might be a Deist though!

[Darwinian]

You should flaunt your atheism, free thinking and rational approach to life. Maybe it would rub off. The time to keep quiet about your lack of belief for fear of upsetting the deeply religious has long since passed.

Unless of course you would be in fear of your life, in which case, keep quiet

[ITChick]

I live in Norwich. Currently at 197 days smoke free.

Wow, that is impressive. Praise God! (Sorry, I had to )

Gratz!

[Deckard]

Well its more down to upsetting people who are supporting you. Not really beneficial.

And I certainly do have the lord to thank for my quit!

[pineapplebunnybounce]

Hi, welcome! 197 days is great, congrats!

hope you have fun here. I don't discuss religious things with people in real life either, unless they bring it up or attack my lack of belief, just not worth it.

[Kayenneh]

Hello Deck and welcome to AF! ^_^

Joined here to basically have a safe place to vent my frustrations without upsetting religious folk.

Oh dear, we have a lot of theists aforum, but they are pretty used to what we're up to here

I live in Norwich. Currently at 197 days smoke free.

Good job! Scruffy, my bf, is trying to quit atm, but it isn't going so well. He constantly sneaks out on the balcony to take drags on the butts left in the ashtray. I found a pile of empty boxes that he had gone through in hope of finding a fag, so I pointed to the pile and said if this is what nicotine does to him, I wish that he's never try any hard drugs. So I lift my hat off to anyone who manage to quit.

[pocaracas]

Welcome Deckard!

More than half a year smoke free?... you're cured!
Now get working on doing other things with those lungs to get them in top condition!