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ShrinkingPinecone Offline
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Hello
July 13, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I've been an atheist officially for a couple years now. Unofficially I've always been uncomfortable at church and thought i was a bad person for not believing,I wanted to believe so much i was almost baptized, but my, non practicing christian, family talked me out of it. I didnt want to be labeled atheist because in my mind it was a word for ignorant people who just argued because they could. Over time(im only 16 so by time i mean through middle school) i started questioning why i was the evil one and that led me to be comfortable with my non-beliefs. I hope to have fun and learn some things while i get to know some fellow "evil"-doers

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July 13, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Welcome to AF! It's really too bad that the word 'atheist' has such a negative connotation, but it isn't really surprising considering...

The Devil Worship ceremonies are on Saturdays. Roasted Baby is served daily. Enjoy.
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2010 at 6:02 pm
It's better for you that, at 16, you have the common sense to reject dogma.

Welcome to the forums, hope you find what you're looking for.
Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. - George Orwell
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2010 at 6:05 pm (This post was last modified: July 13, 2010 at 6:07 pm by ShrinkingPinecone.)
(July 13, 2010 at 5:58 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: The Devil Worship ceremonies are on Saturdays. Roasted Baby is served daily. Enjoy.

MMmm... babies.Big Grin
(July 13, 2010 at 6:02 pm)Rhage Wrote: It's better for you that, at 16, you have the common sense to reject dogma.

thanks, wish my parents would open their eyes, i had a very long discussion over evolution with my mother and we got no where..
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2010 at 6:55 pm
(July 13, 2010 at 5:58 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Welcome to AF! It's really too bad that the word 'atheist' has such a negative connotation, but it isn't really surprising considering...

The Devil Worship ceremonies are on Saturdays. Roasted Baby is served daily. Enjoy.


Red or white wine with roasted baby?

Welcome, Pine Cone. I have shirts older than 16 but I'm glad you found out early on.
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2010 at 8:03 pm
oh, hello.
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RE: Hello
July 14, 2010 at 4:29 am
Welcome to the forums. Good to hear about your final official loss of faith. Nothing "Evil" about atheism it's just an absence of belief in gods.

We don't worship Satan because - at least normally - we don't believe in Satan either. Satan is like another deity, or god, really isn't it? Like God's supposedly "Evil" twin. Although Yahweh in fact appears to be much more Evil than Satan if you go by the actions of both in the Bible and do a comparison.

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RE: Hello
July 14, 2010 at 4:48 am
welcome
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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July 14, 2010 at 3:40 pm
(July 14, 2010 at 4:29 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Welcome to the forums. Good to hear about your final official loss of faith. Nothing "Evil" about atheism it's just an absence of belief in gods.

We don't worship Satan because - at least normally - we don't believe in Satan either. Satan is like another deity, or god, really isn't it? Like God's supposedly "Evil" twin. Although Yahweh in fact appears to be much more Evil than Satan if you go by the actions of both in the Bible and do a comparison.

EvF

ThanksSmile i know its not evil, but it was my first impression of atheism.
I agree completely, satan is less evil, I'd rather worship a fictional character that "gave" me a mind than a genocidal lunatic people are told to love.
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RE: Hello
July 14, 2010 at 5:50 pm
(July 14, 2010 at 4:29 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Nothing "Evil" about atheism it's just an absence of belief in gods.
It's the non acceptance of something positive... making it not as positive.
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