A reason why people remain religious

[ignoramus]

One reason is because many don't want to associate with the type of atheists that get the most attention, so they state they are a theist when in fact they don't believe.....basically you get a few atheists who don't live by the own standards they praise, so you get other atheists who don't want to be looked down upon for associating themselves with those vocal atheists.

If the most prominent atheists cared to actually live by secular values instead of their own illogical emotional rants, you would have less and less atheists label themselves as theists.

Agree.
Whatever it takes to minimise the religious attendances is a good thing ultimately.

[Anomalocaris]

To start off, you might be thinking that people who no longer believe in a God and an afterlife and complain about it are the people to be regarded as weak, immature, etc. when it is actually the exact opposite. The reason many people are whiny is that they are too much of a human being (someone great) to possibly accept that there is no God and afterlife and no longer complain about it or to no longer believe that there is a God and afterlife. They add their own personification as a human being and as someone great to reality itself and this is why they either whine that there is no God or afterlife or still believe that there is a God and an afterlife. In short, people who whine that there is no God or afterlife or who actually believe there is a God and an afterlife are the better people who have a sense of higher purpose/self to possibly stoop so low as to either, again, accept that there is no God and afterlife and not complain, or to no longer believe that there is a God and an afterlife. This sense of higher life and higher self that these people have (that they are special and that this life is special and intended for them or that, at least, they complain that it isn't and that it should be that way anyway), this is what makes these people special and "higher" (great).

Although atheists can still achieve a sense of greatness and being someone special, the fact of the matter is that they are restricted from true greatness as I've just explained since they have stooped so low into a world where, in reality, they are not that great or special as to deserve a God and an afterlife and that this life is not something special in the sense that it was not intended for them and such. It doesn't matter how great and special you think you are if you are an atheist, to realize that, in reality, you are not great and special in this universe is demeaning of yourself because just by giving yourself the message that you are not that great and special, this is demeaning of you as a human being and that is what makes you a lesser person. Therefore, this is why people who have a sense of higher self and such who either complain that there is no God and afterlife or who still arrogantly believe there is a God and afterlife anyway despite much scientific evidence are the better people.

Shut the fuck up.

[ShaMan]

One reason is because many don't want to associate with the type of atheists that get the most attention...

Let me guess... You're a Westborough Baptist supporter, aren't you? I knew it. Isn't generalizing productive?

[Polaris]

One reason is because many don't want to associate with the type of atheists that get the most attention...

Let me guess... You're a Westborough Baptist supporter, aren't you? I knew it. Isn't generalizing productive?

The vocal atheists do just that to fellow atheists...they say something retarded and then make it out like all atheists are with them when they get backed into a corner. Basically it's the actions of a few atheists that allow the generalizations of other atheists to happen much more easily.

It's easy to generalize the vocal atheists because they have generalized themselves with their own actions. Most atheists I have met act nothing like those who post here.

[Zidneya]

Ironically. An atheist that claims that without religion you can't achieve a greater sense of happiness.

[Minimalist]

The vocal atheists do just that to fellow atheists.

Polecat, you know little of anything. Stick to your bible-bullshit and leave the smart people alone.

[Polaris]

The vocal atheists do just that to fellow atheists.

Polecat, you know little of anything. Stick to your bible-bullshit and leave the smart people alone.

I hope you're not counting yourself as among those who are smart (actually, borderline retarded is even too much for you).

[Mudhammam]

Why is it that every thread I come across involving Polaris seems to have degenerated into a flame war?

[Polaris]

Why is it that every thread I come across involving Polaris seems to have degenerated into a flame war?

Because I speak what others are too chicken to tell harmful atheists. People like min flame others all the time, but tend to do so to an audience of none so they can always look like they win.

[Bad Wolf]

The vocal atheists do just that to fellow atheists...they say something retarded and then make it out like all atheists are with them when they get backed into a corner.

No they don't.