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Who was arguing? There is a big difference between "suddely renouncing" something and claiming that something "stopped making sense" since you have no idea what amount of time lapsed which caused the person to come to the conclusion.
I am arguing, but you are...what...debating?
He's making it sound like I woke up one morning and decided to be an atheist. To be a hipster and all.....
That I was never that religious to begin with? Your assertion can stand all it wants but it's still wrong.
Not that you were religious. Anyone can be religious. Satanists are religious in their way.
I say you were never a Christian (i.e. - truly accepted Jesus Christ as personal saviour and the one who atoned for your sins).
Indeed, you very well may have been religious. That's not up for debate.
He's making it sound like I woke up one morning and decided to be an atheist. To be a hipster and all.....
I can certainly relate. The realization of the bogus parts of religion is a progresssion that comes with life experience and open mindendness. I considered myself agnostic for quite awhle, but lately, I am more than convinced that the dogma and fairty tales are relics belonging to another age.
Some parents glory in having incest. Some parents are happy not ever going to teacher-parent conferences. Some parents have no remorse committing adultery and breaking up their homes.
I would not smile and post a thumbs up of guiding my child on a path to eternal damnation in hell. Whether or not I or you believe in the existence of prisons or HIV is neither here nor there. More important are do they exist. Likewise with both hell and the road to perdition.
Perhaps the worse thing a parent can do is guide their child to hell. Plenty of parents that worship Satan do that. Which is worse than your lack of faith. For you don't believe. Parents that are Satanic and worship Satan actually believe in Satan and hell and intentionally give and promise their child to Satan.
But as I said before... I would not associate atheists with good people, because only about 1% of them are, the 99% seem to be bad people and some of them even are worse than bad an are evil.
That is your opinion. It is not mine. Nor is it my son's.
We don't believe in god or satan and we don't believe in heaven or hell. We think heaven and hell are right here on this very Earth we live on, not in some imaginary place beneath our feet or above our heads.
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Luckily, hell doesn't actually exist. What a horrible thing to say to a parent, that they are damning their kids to hell. Just another example of christian cruelty and superiority complex.
I'd also like to know how you figured out that only one percent of atheists are good people, since you seem to keep saying it over and over again. What was your testing methodology? What was your sample size? What kind of questions did you ask and what kind of factors did you account for? Because am seriously fed up with lowlifes telling me and others like me that we're the scum of the effing earth, when the vast majority of us have never and never plan to do wrong to anyone.
Thanks for defending me.
And, I second this statement.
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How does a so called "smart person" explain our existence?
Not just our planet or our Galaxy or even our Universe?
How can an "intelligent" person believe that all that we see just popped into existence?
I believe in science. I believe in evolution. I believe in the Big Bang theory, whether it was a singularity or membrane theory.
But where did the stuff that we're made of come from? What caused this tremendous amount of energy?
I don't have to further explain how or what my son thinks. He is not the subject of discussion.
Good questions. Let us know when you find the answers.
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I believe in myself and what is wrong with that. I don't pray to god to give me a direction or answers. And it has nothing to do with material things. If you have to rely on an unknown identity to give you guidance then you have no confidence in yourself. Unlike you, I have confidence to make the right decision for myself. I'm sorry but this satanic stuff is nonsense
I know. It makes me sit here and laugh at some of the things that are being said. If said posters think they are hurting my "widdle feelers" then they are so wrong. It's nothing I haven't heard before.
I live my live for others. However, I live first for me and my own abilities that allow me to do for others.
I just can't see where this behavior is so destructive that I will be sentenced to "eternal damnation in hell".
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Yeah, we have clubhouses and secret decoder rings. Not to mention the secret handshake.
Not that you were religious. Anyone can be religious. Satanists are religious in their way.
I say you were never a Christian (i.e. - truly accepted Jesus Christ as personal saviour and the one who atoned for your sins).
Indeed, you very well may have been religious. That's not up for debate.
Oh, you mean the Born Again version of Christianity. Russian Orthodoxy doesn't do the personal saviour bit. I guess it's not good enough to be religious; it has to be a certain brand of religion and a certain type of Christianity.
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Oh, you mean the Born Again version of Christianity. Russian Orthodoxy doesn't do the personal saviour bit. I guess it's not good enough to be religious; it has to be a certain brand of religioun and a certain type of Christianity.
No, it just involves a little thing called the Bible. Not some traditions of men trying to work their way to Heaven.
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