As a non-Christian and lifelong atheist, I am unfamiliar with the rules of lent. As I understand it, it is giving up something of which you are very fond for a period of time. I would like to suggest to devout Christians that they give up their belief in god for lent, including church, the bible, prayer, etc. Try free-thinking, reason, logic, and scientific discovery on for size for a month and see if you are able to put aside your dogmas, if for only a short period.
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Newbie  Religious Views: I call myself an agnostic because I don't know how life began here, but I find the possibility of a sentient god which can be petitioned with prayer to be at best, HIGHLY unlikely.  RE: Lent
March 6, 2014 at 10:21 pm
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your religious views say that you are agnostic , and your post says you're a lifelong atheist . make up your mind
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 (March 6, 2014 at 10:18 pm)dr_jpeg Wrote: As a non-Christian and lifelong atheist, I am unfamiliar with the rules of lent. As I understand it, it is giving up something of which you are very fond for a period of time. I would like to suggest to devout Christians that they give up their belief in god for lent, including church, the bible, prayer, etc. Try free-thinking, reason, logic, and scientific discovery on for size for a month and see if you are able to put aside your dogmas, if for only a short period. Lent is predominantly a Catholic practice, it definitely is only practiced by denominational Churches.  Quote: As I understand it, it is giving up something of which you are very fond for a period of time. I wonder if the priests give up screwing the altar boys.........  Welcome.  (March 6, 2014 at 10:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: As I understand it, it is giving up something of which you are very fond for a period of time. No. THat would be taking it too far!  hock:
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Newbie Religious Views: I call myself an agnostic because I don't know how life began here, but I find the possibility of a sentient god which can be petitioned with prayer to be at best, HIGHLY unlikely. (March 6, 2014 at 10:21 pm)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: your religious views say that you are agnostic , and your post says you're a lifelong atheist . make up your mind :D I am an atheist in that I don't believe in a deity. I am agnostic in that I believe that we got here somehow; life did not spontaneously sprout on this planet from nothing. "God" may be a comet which deposited some single-celled life form along with the water which makes up our oceans. That single-celled life form no doubt evolved into life as we know it. (March 6, 2014 at 11:40 pm)dr_jpeg Wrote: I am an atheist in that I don't believe in a deity. I am agnostic in that I believe that we got here somehow; life did not spontaneously sprout on this planet from nothing. "God" may be a comet which deposited some single-celled life form along with the water which makes up our oceans. That single-celled life form no doubt evolved into life as we know it. If god is a comet, then fuck'm. Why care about a huge piece of rock that has a scientific reason for existence and caused life on earth using scientific reasons and some sequence of events over a huge period of time ??????
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a catholic thing where you give up something. Is it temporary, or permanent? Of course I'm sure that temporarily giving up your religious practices to try non religious ones or other religions goes against what the bible says about only worshiping one deity. He even puts it in the first two commandments that people love to talk about in America. Despite that half of them are unconstitutional, only two are actually illegal, and the murder one apparently only counts for non Yahwists or something.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  (March 6, 2014 at 10:40 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Lent is predominantly a Catholic practice, it definitely is only practiced by denominational Churches. Patently untrue. I grew up in a Non-denominational church. That practiced lent.
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