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Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 2:04 am
I'm curious to know out of the membership here is there a link between having done drugs and your religious views.
While i has been suggested many times (by me) that many religious works were the result of drugs (ie: the Book of Revelations), i presume that very few followers of gods such as Yahweh would do drugs, whereas atheists may be more open to using them.
So, here is a poll to see if we can spot any sort of correlation.... and if no correlation exists then I will just create some absurd conclusion. 
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 2:08 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2010 at 2:15 am by theblindferrengi.)
My guess is you are either not an atheist, or you are trying to justify your own drug use to yourself.
Given that this is an atheist forum, the majority of the poll results will be either atheist + no drugs or atheist + drugs, so to compare drug use in atheism vs. theism would be inaccurate given such a biased polling sample.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 2:13 am
Loki Wrote:So, here is a poll to see if we can spot any sort of correlation.... and if no correlation exists then I will just create some absurd conclusion.
Slooooooooow down there 
Drugs do you no 'good' if you're dead :S
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 2:19 am
Who said anything about getting dead?
Unless that is a threat on your part there sae 
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 2:29 am
(April 15, 2010 at 2:19 am)theblindferrengi Wrote: Who said anything about getting dead?
Unless that is a threat on your part there sae
I was suggesting that since his reasoning facilities were subject to the possibility of forming an absurd conclusion, that he would be wise to slow down on the intake of said drug, lest his lowered reasoning capacity fail to see the threat of potential death
Yes, both posts were entirely satirical > _ >
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 2:37 am
When recreational drugs are used responsibly the threat of death is no greater than any menial activity.
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 3:01 am
Does Caffeine and Nicotine count??
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 3:43 am
(April 15, 2010 at 3:01 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Does Caffeine and Nicotine count??
Do they get you high in one form or another?
@ theblindferrengi - LOL... definitely an Atheist. I'm one of those Atheists who is at the far end of Dawkin's 7 point scale. I'm not a wishly washy agnostic saying it may be possible there is a god. I won't say there couldn't be some being or beings that were responsible for creation of our universe, only that they do not have to be supernatural in nature. Maybe one day humanity will be able to create new universes... would this make us gods? No, only godlike. We would still be natural beings.
Going off topic... so back to topic....
No, i really don't need to justify my own drug taking. I'm pretty well read on the subject of the many different types of drugs and aware of their effects on my body and mind (which is more than can be said of many who oppose drugs in all their incarnations). I was always fully aware of what i was doing.
Don't do many these days (apart from cigs and alcohol). I occasionally smoke a joint with friends, but its a rare event. Back in my student days and for quite a few years afterwards I tried just about everything except heroin and smoked week like most smokers smoke cigarettes. These days with a family I have to be a little more responsible about my life.
Actually more directly on topic, I don't recall ever meeting a truly religious person who even smoked weed. And a lot of people I know who are openly atheist do smoke weed or more (and this includes work people, so its not self-selection based on friends).
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 5:15 am
(April 15, 2010 at 3:43 am)Loki_999 Wrote: @theblindferrengi - LOL... definitely an Atheist. I'm one of those Atheists who is at the far end of Dawkin's 7 point scale. I'm not a wishly washy agnostic saying it may be possible there is a god. I won't say there couldn't be some being or beings that were responsible for creation of our universe, only that they do not have to be supernatural in nature. Maybe one day humanity will be able to create new universes... would this make us gods? No, only godlike. We would still be natural beings.
Going off topic... so back to topic....
No, i really don't need to justify my own drug taking. I'm pretty well read on the subject of the many different types of drugs and aware of their effects on my body and mind (which is more than can be said of many who oppose drugs in all their incarnations). I was always fully aware of what i was doing.
Don't do many these days (apart from cigs and alcohol). I occasionally smoke a joint with friends, but its a rare event. Back in my student days and for quite a few years afterwards I tried just about everything except heroin and smoked week like most smokers smoke cigarettes. These days with a family I have to be a little more responsible about my life.
Actually more directly on topic, I don't recall ever meeting a truly religious person who even smoked weed. And a lot of people I know who are openly atheist do smoke weed or more (and this includes work people, so its not self-selection based on friends).
Hmm, interesting.
How do you feel about drug controlled soldiers?
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RE: Athiesm, religion, and drugs...
April 15, 2010 at 8:53 am
Do you mean have done drugs on a regular basis or just once in a blue monday when there was no R in the month?
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