GeoTheo

My conclusion is that many people here are way off balance. They are filled with anger and bitterness to the point that they are irrational.
I really believe Starboy thinks atheists will get marched off to death camps. I also think that people that frequent this website actually shit their pants in fear after tuesdays election. You really need to take a long hard look at your mental health.
I am a conservative Christian and I support seperation of Church and State so I respect peoples right to believe as they wish. But for the most part I think atheists are either people that are merely bitter at Christianity or else people that are going through a phase where they take a hard look at philosophical issues. I think the latter is positive and the former is not. I think the former are merely bitter reactionaries very much like the extreme fundamentalist reconstructionists they hate so much, though I don't think most extreme fundies are even that bitter or scared.

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Starboy

It would be interesting to see how Christians would react to atheist going door-to-door and insisting that people abandon religion. We don't do it because 1) we repect your right to think as you do, no matter how silly or rediculous we think it may be and 2) we would probably be ostracized, banned or arrested. To all Christians: TOLERANCE CUTS BOTH WAYS!

When the day comes that door-to-door atheists are as common and welcome as door-to-door Christians I will admit that Christians are tolerant. You will probably never see many door-to-door atheists because we are tolerant, however we are pissed off at Christianity so full of itself that it cannot leave others alone.

Starboy

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HelenM

Fwiw, I think some atheists are simply people who, in their opinion, have encountered no compelling evidence for the existence of God...

take care
Helen

galiel

You are correct, but it is the policy of this board to continue to allow these theists to post.

HelenM

I think that day is here where I live - I've never had one Christian come door-to-door to my house!

Helen

atheist_in_foxhole

GeoTheo, I don't know what denomination or sect you belong to, and I have no clue about what your "beliefs" are, but you have to understand that many of us here view your religion (all religions, really) in the same way a farmer views a pest on his crops.

Your cult has managed to convice billions of people that human beings are worthless sinners bound for eternal torture in the flames of hell because a talking snake convinced two people to eat some forbidden fruit in a magic garden. Furthermore, you have also managed to convince them that they need to "accept" that an invisible, omnipotent god had his innocent son tortured and murdered so that we might escape hell and instead get a reward in a fantasy world called heaven.

And you wonder why some of us are bitter and angry?!

There's a huge world for you outside of Bemidji, and if you explore it you'll begin to see some of the damage that religion has done.

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Starboy

Hi HelenM,

Where I live I am surrounded by two Churches. On the street on which I live there is an average of one church per mile. I am not home much but when I am, over the course of a year there are on averge three Chrisitian recruters that show up at my door. Over half of my neigbors are openly Christian. I have Christian customers that have on more than one occasion directed me to go to church. I have yet to treat these people rudely or told them where to get off. I am sure if I behaved as they did, they would take great offence. I know this because I have tried that experiment. So much for Christian tolerance.

I cannot speak for others but I suspect this is a common story for atheists.

Then you have the Christians that visit this openly declaired atheist board and somehow think they are making some deep comment when they say that we as atheist don't think much of Christians. Why don't you Christians grow up, not everybody likes you.

Starboy

GeoTheo

I think you are reading a little bit too much into my adress. I am a student at the University here. I have lived here for eight months. I am 31 years old and have lived in 5 states. I became a Christian when I was 21. I have an extremely diverse family background. My stepsister is a professor of Feminist Sociology. My mother is a Unitarian Universalist and a liberal democrat. Do you normally jump to conclusions so fast and make such quick stereotypes?
I can picture the wheels turning in your head:
"Hmmm...theist from Bemidji....must be a hick that grew up there all his life....never met an atheist till he got a computer..."

atheist_in_foxhole

You're 31 years old, still in school (in Bemidji, Minnesota of all places!), and you can't spell address.

No wonder you're a Xian!

GeoTheo

I think you just need a hug Starboy. Maybe you should become a Unitarian Universalist. That way you could still be an atheist and have the benefits of belonging to a spiritual community.
My mother, who lives in Madison, WI (wonder what Foxhole atheists stereotype of that town is?) goes to a Unitarian Church and an atheist attends there.