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Do you have the right to be an atheist?

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Do you have the right to be an atheist?
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#491
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 6:05 am
Oh, this guy is full on retard.
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#492
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 6:18 am
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 6:26 am (This post was last modified: July 8, 2015 at 6:26 am by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
You've gotta tell me what font that is!

Also,i'm kind of confused - the person in that picture are you that person and you're like asking me Whassup dude? or are you implying that i'm the person in that picture and youre asking me Wassup dude?
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 7:00 am
You're not from around here, are you? I mean Earth.
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 7:18 am
(July 8, 2015 at 5:55 am)bennyboy Wrote:
(July 8, 2015 at 1:12 am)pool Wrote: All i'm saying is that a person born without the knowing of the concept of a god will not be a Atheist by default.
Because to be a Atheist it first takes to know the concepts of theism and then reject the claims proposed by Theism.
Your last statement is here referred to as "antitheism," not "atheism."

But I agree with your first point.  If lacking a belief in God makes you atheist, then my beagle is an atheist, as is my big toe.  But this is not how the word is normally used-- "-ist" implies a thinking agent that could potentially be atheist but happens not to be.  I'd say this is impossible-- you only have the potential to be theist if you are a person AND you have been presented with the God idea.  If you have not accepted this idea, then you have rejected this-- and are a "hard" atheist or an anti-theist.

I think people ACTUALLY are anti-theist.  They're annoyed by shitty arguments, by social manipulation, by bias in the workplace, etc.  It is only philosophically, where you can't prove a negative, that people take the softer position that they "lack a belief in God."

Kudos to you.

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#496
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 7:28 am
Just read from page 46. You guys are getting trolled hard.
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 10:23 am
(July 8, 2015 at 1:12 am)pool Wrote:
(July 7, 2015 at 4:26 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You know what? I fucking give up. You wolves can have him. Raw meat for the balcony.

I don't understand.
Is it because my logic is faulty?
or 
Is it because i'm stubborn? 

No, it's because you're being a fucking idiot.

If you believe in a god, you are a theist and can make claims about your belief. Anything else, including "I don't know", you are an atheist and are entitled to reject those claims.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 10:26 am (This post was last modified: July 8, 2015 at 10:29 am by Excited Penguin.)
Two times already I exhausted every single detail I could have to straighten out his misunderstandings. The first time he simply ignored me, despite explicitly asking me for it, and the second time he changed the conversation. Ain't that funny?

I give up. What the fuuck...

Why do we keep wasting time on this quasi-troll?
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 10:33 am
My cat is apparently an Atheist according to most of you.So is my dog.
Just saying..
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 8, 2015 at 10:34 am (This post was last modified: July 8, 2015 at 10:36 am by Longhorn.)
(July 8, 2015 at 10:33 am)pool Wrote: My cat is apparently an Atheist according to most of you.So is my dog.
Just saying..

they don't believe in god, that's most likely true.

but the definition of atheist has the word 'person' in it, so no.
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