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You asked: Spin-Off Question: Religious people what would you do differently if you were an Atheist? I just don't know. I would probably find life meaningless if it were causeless. I would probably be depressed most of the time and come here and my life would be wrapped up in making fun of people like me who actually believe the Bible since there'd be nothing better to do.
You asked: Spin-Off Question: Religious people what would you do differently if you were an Atheist? I just don't know. I would probably find life meaningless if it were causeless. I would probably be depressed most of the time and come here and my life would be wrapped up in making fun of people like me who actually believe the Bible since there'd be nothing better to do.
You are clearly not from around here!
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Originally Posted by Eusebius
You asked: Spin-Off Question: Religious people what would you do differently if you were an Atheist? I just don't know. I would probably find life meaningless if it were causeless. I would probably be depressed most of the time and come here and my life would be wrapped up in making fun of people like me who actually believe the Bible since there'd be nothing better to do.
You asked: Spin-Off Question: Religious people what would you do differently if you were an Atheist? I just don't know. I would probably find life meaningless if it were causeless. I would probably be depressed most of the time and come here and my life would be wrapped up in making fun of people like me who actually believe the Bible since there'd be nothing better to do.
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Originally Posted by Cruithne
*sigh*
::Sigh:: Indeed, Cruithne!! Reason seems to be the beggar in these discussions with unreasoning credulity!
You asked: Spin-Off Question: Religious people what would you do differently if you were an Atheist? I just don't know. I would probably find life meaningless if it were causeless. I would probably be depressed most of the time and come here and my life would be wrapped up in making fun of people like me who actually believe the Bible since there'd be nothing better to do.
It's unfortunate you lack imagination and must resort to establishing myth as fact in order to make your god understandable.
It's a myth that non-believers have nothing to live for. Quite the opposite we have everything to live for, and nothing to die for.
I can't imagine wasting my life looking forward to death, and not just my death but the death of all mankind. And praying to what amounts to a human sacrifice (jesus).
And your only hope at a wonderful fulfilling life is after you die. Such a preoccupation with death.
Last edited by willingsniper; 05-03-2015 at 01:24 PM..
The premise here was not "What would you do if against your will you were forced to become an atheist?" where you are an atheist who retains all of his or her sympathies and respect for religion. The question was what you would do if you were an atheist.
The answers that the believers here have been providing all seemed to have assumed the former conditions, that there is no difference in mentality at all.
In reality, if you were an atheist, it would be because you chose to be an atheist and do not believe in any of the religious theories. In such circumstances you would be indistinguishable from any other atheist and would have a mentality congruent with the mentalities you have seen from the atheists on these boards.
So, stop answering the question as though you are an atheist who is actually still a clandestine Christian. Try and imagine a world where you enthusiastically embrace atheism and answer that way.
Do any of you see any of the atheists on these boards who are behaving or thinking in the manner you are projecting that you would if you were an atheist? Are we all full of gloom, doom and despair? None of us seem happy or well adjusted?
Do any of you see any of the atheists on these boards who are behaving or thinking in the manner you are projecting that you would if you were an atheist? Are we all full of gloom, doom and despair? None of us seem happy or well adjusted?
It is the triumph of dogma over reality.
When ones world-view comes before the evidence, all evidence that contradicts it is ignored - if it's even noticed at all.
We see the same thing with the endless pronouncements that in the absence of religion, people will not behave morally. This requires ignoring the reality that the part of the United States with the highest rates of religious belief and church attendance - the South - also has by far the highest violent crime rate of any region of the country. It requires ignoring the fact that the violent crime rate is higher in the relatively more pious United States than in Canada. It requires ignoring the fact that the most violent parts of Europe - southern and eastern Europe - are demonstrably more religious than the comparatively less violent northern and western Europe. Over and over the claim is made by religious people who have in most cases probably never even bothered to check their assumptions against the great human laboratory of society.
And so it is with the hopeless and miserable atheist, a creature that is far more common in the fervent imagination of the believer than in the real world.
You asked: Spin-Off Question: Religious people what would you do differently if you were an Atheist? I just don't know. I would probably find life meaningless if it were causeless. I would probably be depressed most of the time
ditto.
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Reason seems to be the beggar in these discussions with unreasoning credulity!
