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RE: My Christian intro
December 12, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I tried to make an argument for Christianity in my head today, and just as I was beginning to argue with myself, my mother called. You will never fucking guess what my devoutly Catholic mother called to tell me.....
She's decided she's an atheist! It was something I said that did it too! Fuckedy fuck yessssssssss!
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RE: My Christian intro
December 12, 2011 at 8:32 pm
She won't call herself an atheist. LOL She says she just doesn't believe in gods anymore. She said the turning point for her was a few months ago when were were discussing the subject of christianity, and she mentioned that there were so many things in this world that couldn't be explained, and I said that was true, but that doesn't mean we should make up explanations for them just because we haven't figured out a real one yet. So she started reading, questioning, and thinking about it... and of course, she ended up ditching the god bullshit. Yay for mom!
Sorry about your niece! That's so sad... anyone who said such things to your brother is just a horrible person.
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RE: My Christian intro
December 12, 2011 at 8:42 pm
(December 12, 2011 at 8:32 pm)aleialoura Wrote: She won't call herself an atheist. LOL She says she just doesn't believe in gods anymore. She said the turning point for her was a few months ago when were were discussing the subject of christianity, and she mentioned that there were so many things in this world that couldn't be explained, and I said that was true, but that doesn't mean we should make up explanations for them just because we haven't figured out a real one yet. So she started reading, questioning, and thinking about it... and of course, she ended up ditching the god bullshit. Yay for mom!
Ah, the sweet, sweet smell of atheist WIN.
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.
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RE: My Christian intro
December 12, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Atheist arguments are much better and make sense... it is inevitable that atheism will spread in a free society.
Now that our message is not censored, we will grow exponentially.
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RE: My Christian intro
December 12, 2011 at 9:45 pm
(December 12, 2011 at 9:23 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Atheist arguments are much better and make sense... it is inevitable that atheism will spread in a free society.
Now that our message is not censored, we will grow exponentially.
Indeed it will. Indeed it will.
I predict that the UK will be practically non religious within a generation. Society is already more or less secular from an outside perspective, though there are still lots of churches and a fair few people still attend - but they don't shout about it or pressure others to do it. Once the older people die off then religion will crumble.
The only potential fly in the ointment is islam, as it will try to grow into the gaps left by the demise of xtianity. The muslims, you could say they are...dedicated...to the expansion of islam.
I think the USA is around 50 years behind Europe, but the wind of change still blows there. It'll be a slower process, but it's still exponential.
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.