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Glad I found this forum!
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Welcome!

I, too, was raised as a Southern Baptist.

I hope you get to play a lot of great music in the church where you work. I remember going to a church service once because I knew the soprano (also an atheist) they hired for their special music that day. The music was glorious. It was good enough to make sitting through the sermon worthwhile.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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#12
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Welcome to the forum. There is an unwritten rule here that all lesbians must post a pic of themselves kissing their girlfriend.
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#13
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Thanks everybody for the warm welcome!  I appreciate it. Sorry Kusa - I don't have a gf.  I'm single. Can't supply any pics.             --drfuzzy
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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#14
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Welcome

Join in and have fun!
"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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Welcome to AF, I'm glad you can soon escape. As for musical talent...I'm pretty shit-hot on the triangle. Or at least I was when I used it once 12 years ago at a school play.
*Cough* anyway...Welcome
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#16
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Welcome fuzzy heathen!
show us ya tatts! (if you want) Wink
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#17
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Welcome

I grew up in and around churches. It's funny about music. Our choir always had a grad student for a director because it was a university town and there were an endless supply of young people getting their masters or PHD who needed a choir for their final project. It improved the quality of sound during service enormously. There may be more than one young undeclared atheist in you church who appreciates the sound of your organ just for the quality.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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#18
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(July 4, 2015 at 1:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Oh, hello hello everyone!
I'm a middle-aged, female, tattooed lesbian atheist.   And I'm also the organist for a Catholic Church.

I need intelligent conversation!!!      Big Grin
I was raised Southern Baptist.  (Yeah, I know, YIKES!)  AND I was stupid enough to get music degrees in college.  (Double yikes!)
It's very hard for a self-employed musician to survive without a church job.  But you know what they say: if you want to become
an atheist, just work for a church.  It's not very long before you think "does he even know what he just said?" having to listen to
sermons and bible readings every weekend. Not to mention that church workers are usually JUST AWFUL to each other.

I might quote that old button "my karma ran over my dogma"!  It did.

I'm happy to announce that I have recently acquired full-time gainful employment, and will be financially able to escape from 
the loony bin soon.  

I'm a huge fan of Sagan, Hitchens, deGrasse Tyson, Hawking, Dawkins, Kelly . . . if you can suggest any good books or great
groups to join, I would appreciate it!   Good to "meet" you!                   drfuzzy

Middle age? Then you should be old enough to recognize my avatar of a band I am a huge fan of.
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#19
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That's a doozie of a first three sentences. Welcome, and thanks for an intro! Too many are forgetting this courtesy these day.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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#20
RE: Glad I found this forum!
(July 4, 2015 at 1:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Oh, hello hello everyone!
I'm a middle-aged, female, tattooed lesbian atheist.   And I'm also the organist for a Catholic Church.

I need intelligent conversation!!!      Big Grin
I was raised Southern Baptist.  (Yeah, I know, YIKES!)  AND I was stupid enough to get music degrees in college.  (Double yikes!)
It's very hard for a self-employed musician to survive without a church job.  But you know what they say: if you want to become
an atheist, just work for a church.  It's not very long before you think "does he even know what he just said?" having to listen to
sermons and bible readings every weekend. Not to mention that church workers are usually JUST AWFUL to each other.

I might quote that old button "my karma ran over my dogma"!  It did.

I'm happy to announce that I have recently acquired full-time gainful employment, and will be financially able to escape from 
the loony bin soon.  

I'm a huge fan of Sagan, Hitchens, deGrasse Tyson, Hawking, Dawkins, Kelly . . . if you can suggest any good books or great
groups to join, I would appreciate it!   Good to "meet" you!                   drfuzzy

I too am a middle aged atheist who likes the ladies.
No tats though.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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