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RE: Homeless because iam a atheist
September 7, 2014 at 6:33 pm
That's what happens when you glorify the next life over this one. Even if you can't prove that another one exists.
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RE: Homeless because iam a atheist
September 7, 2014 at 6:36 pm
I've been taken back to Highlander: the series nostalgia. I wish there were generally awesome priests like Darius that helped others without having a secret motive, but sadly spiritual leaders aren't even half the person they pretend to be.
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RE: Homeless because iam a atheist
September 7, 2014 at 7:11 pm
'Property is the guardian of principle.' Puddn'head Wilson
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RE: Homeless because iam a atheist
September 7, 2014 at 7:31 pm
Wow, even homeless people in the states have internet access?
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RE: Homeless because iam a atheist
September 7, 2014 at 7:40 pm
Public libraries in the UK have free web access too
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RE: Homeless because iam a atheist
September 7, 2014 at 9:04 pm
If you think about it, by accepting the shelter you're really getting one up on them; you can just lie about being a Christian and secretly (if that is a condition of the shelter) laugh at them for being deluded.
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RE: Homeless because iam a atheist
September 7, 2014 at 9:57 pm
The great thing about being a freethinker is that you get to use your brain. If this shelter requires you to take an oath of belief, get baptized, swear allegiance to the holy babble, I agree---too far. But if they require you to sit in a nice warm (or cool) church, learn about their beliefs a couple times a week in exchange for food and shelter, consider that a transaction. I don't enjoy paying money for things, but I make that exchange for the things I want or need. You are not giving up your beliefs, you are not being a hypocrite, and neither are they. Maybe you can learn some new things about the religion. These people are offering to do something nice for you. And you need it. They aren't to be vilified. Their 'ulterior' motive is not something they are being duplicitous about or trying to hide, they are super clear about it---they are trying to win converts.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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