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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 5:37 pm
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(March 20, 2018 at 4:35 pm)Sayetsu Wrote: (For those to whom it applies) What were the first questions you had that led you to atheism?
-non applicable. Questions could -only- lead me into belief..and it hasn't happened yet. 
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm
I read the bible starting with Genesis, skipping the begats and begots, but otherwise reading it in it's entirety. This of course was not how I was instructed to study the bible. I wondered why that was. It became apparent that the whole mess was incoherent, and I haven't seen a cogent explanation to sort that.
So I guess the question was this: Why is all of this indistinguishable from bullshit?
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:06 pm
Whereas I was instructed by jesuits to read it as a poem regarding the essential but not literal truth of the human condition from which marching orders could be derived, and named accordingly.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:16 pm
Why is it that the only response I get when I pray is a deafening silence (except for my own thoughts)?
This went through my head by the time I was 7 years old.
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:18 pm
I was aware of God's curse upon the Amalekites even in high school. Not sure when I realized God FOREVER blotting out any remembrance of the Amalekites and then recording that very fact in Holy Scripture was logically flawed somehow . . . . .
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:22 pm
(March 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: I read the bible starting with Genesis, skipping the begats and begots, but otherwise reading it in it's entirety. This of course was not how I was instructed to study the bible.
Just out of curiosity, how were you instructed?
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:35 pm
(March 20, 2018 at 4:35 pm)Sayetsu Wrote: (For those to whom it applies) What were the first questions you had that led you to atheism?
'Who made God?' (on being told that God made everything)
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:37 pm
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@Boru
"He's god, no one made god, what are you, an atheist...Sister Mary Grace, we have an atheist here..what do you think of that?"
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:44 pm
(March 20, 2018 at 6:22 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: (March 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: I read the bible starting with Genesis, skipping the begats and begots, but otherwise reading it in it's entirety. This of course was not how I was instructed to study the bible.
Just out of curiosity, how were you instructed?
In the study group I was part of the Gospels, Acts and the Epistles, primarily, not necessarily in any discernable order. We were told it ought to be read that way, but it was never adequately explained why.
The OT was almost never brought up, unless 'opposing the homosexual agenda' was the topic de jure.
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RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Sounds protestant.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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