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Is atheism worth living for?

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Is atheism worth living for?
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RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 5:22 pm (This post was last modified: September 2, 2023 at 6:00 pm by ShinyCrystals.)
(September 2, 2023 at 5:20 pm)MarcusA Wrote: If you didn't believe in God, you'd be a slave to religion.

Right now, there are too many people who are slaves to religion. They are not truly independent themselves. In fact, I would say they are just sheep for religion, and God.

I would not say atheists are those kinds of people, though.
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#52
RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 5:22 pm
(September 2, 2023 at 5:18 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(September 2, 2023 at 5:16 pm)MarcusA Wrote: Does it shit?

Do you?

I think that I have made my point.
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#53
RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 5:24 pm
(September 2, 2023 at 5:22 pm)MarcusA Wrote:
(September 2, 2023 at 5:18 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Do you?

I think that I have made my point.

I rest my case!

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#54
RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 5:27 pm
(September 2, 2023 at 4:17 pm)Lek Wrote:
(September 2, 2023 at 4:07 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: God tells you to be a bigot.

Well, I suppose you score points for the afterlife there.

Seems to me god would prefer you be a GOOD example to those heathen non-believers.

But, you do you.  We learn a lot from Christians like you...just not the things you think we learn.

It's typical that when you run out of arguments, you turn to name-calling.

why expound it’s entirety with a thousand words for a thousandth time what you’ve proven 999 times to  incapable of learning when a single name completely captures all portions therein that is actually within your capacity to understand?
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RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 5:35 pm (This post was last modified: September 2, 2023 at 5:36 pm by MarcusA.)
There's no such thing as bigotry, just pig-headedness.
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RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 5:38 pm
(September 2, 2023 at 5:35 pm)MarcusA Wrote: There's no such thing as bigotry, just pig-headedness.

Do you have a collection of rejected fortune cookie sayings that you call upon?

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RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 6:02 pm
(September 2, 2023 at 5:38 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(September 2, 2023 at 5:35 pm)MarcusA Wrote: There's no such thing as bigotry, just pig-headedness.

Do you have a collection of rejected fortune cookie sayings that you call upon?

Is a black person who hates white people a bigot?
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#58
RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 6:06 pm
A bigot is a bigot, regardless of their appearance.
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#59
RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 6:09 pm
(September 2, 2023 at 6:02 pm)MarcusA Wrote:
(September 2, 2023 at 5:38 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Do you have a collection of rejected fortune cookie sayings that you call upon?

Is a black person who hates white people a bigot?

If he hates them only for being white, then yes.

If he hates the white establishment for what it has done to black people, then probably not.

Bigots are very real, your unsupported assertion aside.
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RE: Is atheism worth living for?
September 2, 2023 at 6:09 pm
So, @MarcusA , what did you mean when you said "If you didn't believe in god, you'd be a slave to religion"? I am confused because I am sure it is the other way around; as in people believing in god are slaves to religion. I am pretty sure atheists or people who don't believe in god are much freer than religious people in many ways, anyway.
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