5 Reasons to Hug Your Local Atheist
Please line up to hug me immediately.
I can also promise to provide tea and cookies.
Will this do?
I got the skillz yo!
You deserve this!
I did a search for hug emoticons and found a site with that one, then it was just a case of copying the code for forums and pasting here (did check the preview first to be sure it was compatible, so far every time I have done this it has worked). I think if you hold your mouse over the smiley it should show the url, but I am not sure of that
Just checked and yup, it shows the url for the smiley, also if you click it it will take you to the site I got it from
We about to get loads of cute smileys from you?
Don't doubt about it ...
hope this is allowed in HP
Some atheists are cute and fuzzy. He does look somewhat nonplussed though...Yes, you're right. I am aware of that. I also think that there is something to be said for people who have the courage to say that they are atheists. It's difficult to nail one's colors to the mask when the cannot are getting ready to shoot one down...
ptosis, no they don't.
I was homeless for nine months until three weeks ago. No church would help me when they found out I was an atheist. Instead they preached the gospel at me. When I indicated that while I respected their belief, my need was for money, not for faith, they wanted nothing more to do with me. They only help if they can 'reap your soul.'
I'm not religious but there must be something out there because I have a guardian angel - I've should have been dead 10x over with all the close calls I've had in my lifetime. One time my life was saved by a complete selfish moron who didn't realize what he did. That's why I know good works are nothing.
I was walking across the street & this guy guns his truck past me even though he had the red light. He delayed me 2 seconds. I finished crossing the street and right in front of me - about 2 seconds in front of me - where I would've been walking - if he didn't delay me - a 15 foot piece of drainage conduit fell off the building right in front of me.Haha! I like your last paragraph
Yea, I agree. That is pretty annoying.
Applied to the conversation, though, I can't really say if that was "aggressive" or not. To play the "devil's advocate", I will say that she was simply stating her belief that all who aren't saved go to hell. I don't know the tone of her voice when she said it, or the feeling in her heart, so I can't really say if she was "aggressive" or not.
So, while very annoying, it's not much different than an atheist posting on HubPages saying that a Christian is foolish for believing in an imaginary fairy god in the sky. In both cases, the believer is stating their opinion and applying it to the life of another person.
The assumption that needs to be cleared up with the Baptist lady is that after she tells us we're going to hell, we "assume" that hell is for bad or evil people. However, in reality, according to the lady, hell is really just for people who aren't "saved". So, it's not really a personal attack against us, as if we're horrible people.
In other religions, people who aren't baptized go to hell. Further, in other religions, people who do evil things without remorse (regardless of being saved or baptized) go to hell. So, every definition of hell is different.
The problem is: People don't like being told something about themselves by someone else. Atheists don't like being told they're going to hell, even if they don't believe in hell. Christians don't like being told they're foolish for believing in an imaginary person. In general, it's just very annoying, and constant annoyance turns into something even stronger.
Evangelism is concentrating their efforts on the unreached peoples of the world,
LDS is the fast growing religion in Oceania.
The Calvary Church has a mission to Vanuatu, another speck in the vast Pacific. Crazy as it seems, "There is great pressure on...Vanuatu, Tuvalu, and Nauru to unrecognize Abkhazia," Gulbis said, adding that Washington is "withholding aid" to the countries over the issue. - http://www.rferl.org/content/abkhazia-v … 88283.html
Not believing doesn't equal not important. I don't believe in Islam/Christianity, but I'm not going to go around saying it's not important when a billion people ID themselves as such. That would be a total denial of reality not to acknowledge the historical and political importance to 2/3 of the world's population!
Funny how people fight the hardest against those closest to themselves. On this forum: christians or ex-christians and in the ME is Sunni & Shites.
This joke from http://www.nobeliefs.com/jokes.htm
I like the joke about Wilson's nails the best.
The heretic
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are your Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, Me too! Are your Episcopalian or Baptist? He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are your Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? He said, Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are your Original Baptist Church of God or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
I heard that Revelation was written by an aramaic speaking Jew.
Revelation 1:6 would indicate that the book was written to Jews.[1] The author of Revelation hated Rome, but he also scorned another group – a group of people we would call Christians today, Pagels says.[2] The original intent of the Book of Revelations was to keep early Christians essentially more Jewish. [3] The label synagogue of Satan was directed not at Jews, but at Judaizing Gentiles [4]
[1] http://www.matthewmcgee.org/7church.html#Section3
[2] http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/3 … evelation/
[3] http://www.thejewishweek.com/blogs/well … evelations
[4] http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/c … age-Smyrna
"There is nothing to prove he *didn't* exist, either." Well, the onus is on the people to prove that he did, not the people who say there is no evidence that he didn't exist. In the same way, if someone wants to prove that in America, they really use yen not dollars, the onus is on the person to who says it is yen, to prove that it is yen.
"You say, there are no valid witnesses? We all know Pompeii got buried by a volcano, but there are no valid witnesses to that, either. Yeah, there is evidence to Pompeii, however, if there wasn't, it doesn't mean it didn't exist."
You don't read much. do you???
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pompeii.htm
There were plenty of people in the harbor at the time Pompeii erupted. I studied Latin at school and had to read the books written by people at the time so the moment you said that sentence, I could google it.
Well, of course, many people 'across time' make reference to Jesus. They also make reference to Allah, 'the ancestors,' Thor, Krishna, Osiris, etc. How does the fact that many people believe in fables make the fables true?
Yes, I'm sure that there was a character on which Jesus was based. I said that. However, he wasn't the son of God and he didn't do miracles, etc. There is no evidence of someone who existed who had those characteristics.
Tacitus may well have been in touch with people who were Christians. Do you remember the childhood game of Whispers, where you whispered in one person's ear, and then that person passed what you whispered to another person, and 80 people later, the message had completely changed? That's how oral information gets corrupted. The fact that someone said Jesus existed, did miracles, and was the son of God in no way means that is true. It's hearsay. There is a vast difference between that and the Holocaust. We have instruments that permit us to provide evidence, e.g. cameras, film, etc. That was not available at the time of Christ.
Why do you find it difficult that you base your entire calendar on an imaginary guy? The Chinese, Jews, Muslims, and others all base their calendars on imaginary guys.
I don't know why but that post was hilarious on so many levels to me.
But, out of curiosity, what is a run of the mill non believer? And, what makes you think your critical thinking skills are more sharply honed than those of other people?
- Emile Rposted 12 years ago
0 - ahorsebackposted 12 years ago0
That's a very good point. A personal experience that can not be shared by others. Nobody can experience you experience. You know it's real even though nobody else could 'mind-meld' with your consciousness.
I used to think that those mediators were just B'S'ing about the feeling of peace and 'oneness' because I could never 'do it'. I always thought that my mind wandered to much with endless self-talk - or just go to sleep. Now I know that although I'm not the Dali Lama in meditation - because I'm not doing the buddhist way doesn't mean I'm not 'doing it. Hiking in the wood, watching the humming birds or butterflies and mountain wildflowers - I think is just 'goofing off', when I really need it to be content.
Today, on a cliff-hugging tree branch 15 feet away from me was a Peregrine Falcon, but as I was digging for my camera - flew off. took an out-of-focus picture below (sigh!!! that camera is supposed to be auto-focus!!!!)
Calm...breathe.........aaaarrrgggg.....aaaaaahhhhh ...grrrrrrrr.
I live right next to the Coronado National park
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