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How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
#1
How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
It's pretty easy.

Just get out of bed. Think for yourself.


Except Sundays.


Then you can sleep in till noon if you like.


...

Enjoy.
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#2
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
(August 30, 2021 at 1:39 am)onlinebiker Wrote: It's pretty easy.

Just get out of bed. Think for yourself.


Except Sundays.


Then you can sleep in till noon if you like.


...

Enjoy.
Do only atheists think for themselves? Because I'm a theist, and I think for myself.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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#3
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
(August 30, 2021 at 1:41 am)Ahriman Wrote:
(August 30, 2021 at 1:39 am)onlinebiker Wrote: It's pretty easy.

Just get out of bed. Think for yourself.


Except Sundays.


Then you can sleep in till noon if you like.


...

Enjoy.
Do only atheists think for themselves? Because I'm a theist, and I think for myself.

You think you think for yourself, but even the thinks that you think you think are thinks that are thinked for you. 

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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#4
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
(August 30, 2021 at 1:41 am)Ahriman Wrote: Do only atheists think for themselves? Because I'm a theist, and I think for myself.

And what about forbidden/sinful thoughts? For instance, you're not allowed to think about sex.

Like, I remember this video in which Michael Moore says how nun told him he was not allowed to think about sex for over 5 seconds. And there is also Janeane Garofalo confronting a catholic priest who is telling her not to think about nude men.



teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#5
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
In the realm of thought/imagination, God allows everything, but our freedom is granted alongside the request, from God, that we maintain a sense of conscientiousness, to prevent our imagination from being corrupted, so we can enjoy our stream of consciousness without fear of becoming degenerates.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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#6
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
(August 30, 2021 at 1:41 am)Ahriman Wrote: Because I'm a theist, and I think for myself.

We know, but it's the what and how that we find unsettling.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#7
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
(August 30, 2021 at 7:32 am)brewer Wrote:
(August 30, 2021 at 1:41 am)Ahriman Wrote: Because I'm a theist, and I think for myself.

We know, but it's the what and how that we find unsettling.
Not sure what you mean.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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#8
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
(August 30, 2021 at 7:53 am)Ahriman Wrote:
(August 30, 2021 at 7:32 am)brewer Wrote: We know, but it's the what and how that we find unsettling.
Not sure what you mean.

Not worth my time.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#9
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
(August 30, 2021 at 1:39 am)onlinebiker Wrote: It's pretty easy.

Just get out of bed. Think for yourself.


Except Sundays.


Then you can sleep in till noon if you like.


...

Enjoy.

One of the greatest things about becoming an atheist was that I was no longer wasting Sunday mornings going to church.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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#10
RE: How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
Quote:How the religious can enjoy Atheism.
Well, scientific stuff is interesting to read, I suppose.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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