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My spirituality is my own and I don't go around talking to people about it or trying to force my beliefs on them. I expect the same from atheists. If they go around talking about how they are atheist all the time to everyone like it's a badge of honor, then they get annoying. Otherwise I don't care.
Besides it's not what one believes that matters, but rather what one does.
My spirituality is my own and I don't go around talking to people about it or trying to force my beliefs on them. I expect the same from atheists. If they go around talking about how they are atheist all the time to everyone like it's a badge of honor, then they get annoying. Otherwise I don't care.
Besides it's not what one believes that matters, but rather what one does.
If you've ever voted for a politician or supported a law or amendment for religious reasons, then you have attempted to force your beliefs on atheists and others.
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My spirituality is my own and I don't go around talking to people about it or trying to force my beliefs on them. I expect the same from atheists. If they go around talking about how they are atheist all the time to everyone like it's a badge of honor, then they get annoying. Otherwise I don't care.
Besides it's not what one believes that matters, but rather what one does.
Take it from this atheist... spirituality doesn't need religion, but religion needs spirituality.
Many people who are not religious, may well have a stronger spirituality connection to nature, the world around us, and the universe, than those that are religious.
Well, the militant ones at least anyway.What really irritates me about these atheists is how easily they are led by so called science.
How much faith do you have to have to believe in spontaneous generation and that uni-cellular organisms have always existed?
Think about it, how cynical are you to look at the perfection of this environment and say it all started as a pool of super heated ooze or primordial soup completely unguided via naturalistic means. Then they take all these unproven theories like Abiogenesis and Spontaneous Generation and treat them as if they're fact.
The real problem with these people is that the vast majority have never taken the time to read the bible , let alone get a Strong's concordance and go back to the original Hebrew , Greek and Aramaic manuscripts. They take a couple of verses from the bible and twist it to their line of thought, without following the subject and object of the chapter to make an uninformed skewed view to degrade individuals' beliefs. Don't get me wrong, I still don't hate or dislike Atheists, I have a very close friend who's an Atheist, and I love her a lot like a sister. I'm not a Christian either in case you're wondering. I'm a Deist. I think something created all this, who or what though I have no idea. Something can't come from nothing though.
Frustrated perhaps, but annoyed definitely not. They're God's creation as well, just as believers are--and all of us are sinners, even those called by God; we are no different than they, though sometimes we delude ourselves by thinking we are on some higher plane because we have faith. What we must never keep far from our mind is that God condescended to us with the gift of faith, and for nothing at all that we had done in our lives; it has nothing to do with our own effort except that we accept that faith which is a gift of his free grace.
It saddens me that atheists been deluded by science, yet we must understand that God has deemed it appropriate that they do not believe in Him at this point in their lives, for a purpose which only He in His unsearchable wisdom can understand. I'm sure that atheists feel that believers are deluded by the Bible, and I understand where they are coming from on that point, having myself been an atheist for many years.
Like I said, I don't hate or dislike them, but the militant ones like the New Atheists act just like the religious fanatics they dislike. Also, why do they gather in groups and at meetings? So, you guys get together because of your shared lack of belief? Is that really a good reason to gather? You could have nothing in common besides that.
To plot world domination and practice our hand signs.
Oh, and to eat pie. We always have pie.
Just the militant ones that troll non-stop. I don't mind the ones that will actually carry on a conversation.
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