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Just another (black) Atheist here
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Pleased to meet you. You'll find that we don't really concern ourselves with whats on the outside as we are all sensible, humorless adults that are already cold and dead on the inside, which is what counts.
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"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred. 
Welcome. I have met a few black atheists in RL, including female ones! Check out Meetup.com and search for atheist groups near you, I bet there's at least one. We make good friends, usually.
 RE: Just another (black) Atheist here
June 2, 2012 at 6:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2012 at 6:10 pm by Brian37.)
(May 21, 2011 at 12:00 am)Drkojiin Wrote: Hey, I became an atheist my first year of college and before that I was a Christian. I never could believe the stuff I heard in church, and when I tried to it was like trying to do the impossible. The Atheist Experience show was the key factor in turning me into an atheist along with my doubts. I love when Matt Dillahunty agrue with theist. You'll be happy to know that a black atheist is a big reason this white atheist is the reason I am an activist atheist now. Back in the late 90s a white guy named Jake and a black guy named Reggie started the "Atheist Network" now defunct. But it's spinoffs still exist today in Reggie's site "Infidel Guy" and "Atheist Forums.com", not to be confused with this one which is dot.org. Brian Sapient of "The Rational Responders" who was on a debate with Ray Comfort on ABC's Nighline got his start on Infidel Guy's website. Reggie "The Infidel Guy" was the first BLACK ATHEIST, and atheist in general to get a full hour on prime time TV by being on ABC's Wife Swap. But long before that, even before I got on the net seeking other atheists, I was a very uneducated atheist in the closet. 9/11/01 kicked me into gear when I read an opinion by a Chicago nurse who was an atheist who got her opinion printed nation wide. At that point I got off my ass and the first site I joined was the one started by Reggie and Jake. Reggie later went on to create his "Infidel Guy" website, which right now is under reconstruction. That black atheist has been a huge influence on me. And so is Neil Degrees Tyson, black atheist and astrophysicist who wrote "The Pluto Piles". Neil managed to get the planet Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet. But in any case, regardless of race or national origin, the world needs more people who reject woo and are willing to test reality to insure the most accurate data. Welcome. And FYI, if you go to Reginald Finely's Facebook page. I am quite sure he'd like to meet up with a fellow black atheis. He is from Atlanta too.  (May 21, 2011 at 12:00 am)Drkojiin Wrote: Hey, I became an atheist my first year of college and before that I was a Christian. I never could believe the stuff I heard in church, and when I tried to it was like trying to do the impossible. The Atheist Experience show was the key factor in turning me into an atheist along with my doubts. I love when Matt Dillahunty agrue with theist. Black? Atheist? Georgia? That's great! Welcome.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
Welcome! I am friends on facebook with several forum members, and could always use another atheist friend there.
https://www.facebook.com/larchie1 Feel welcome to add me. 
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Texas needs lots of things.
Hey, this intro thread is over a year old! Well... welcome, I guess
well well, what do we have here ...
welcome.
they can land a rover on mars, yet they still have to stick a human finger up my ass to do a prostate exam?! - ricky gervais
  Drkojiin
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
Always glad to meet another atheist! We need more like you! Don't be afraid to speak up when confronted by a brainwashed believer!
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
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