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Author Topic:   Does Atheism = No beliefs?
dwise1
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Message 40 of 414 (551386)
03-22-2010 3:54 PM
Reply to: Message 36 by New Cat's Eye
03-22-2010 3:31 PM


Reminds of the old joke:
quote:
A man dies and ends up in Hell. As the Devil is giving him his orientation, he's shown rooms with different torments being performed and it's explained that each group is tormented in the manner that they had all agreed upon in their group's teachings. Then they came to a room where everybody was standing around drinking coffee and chatting. The man asks what group that is and the Devil gets this really disgusted look on his face: "Those are the Unitarians. They can't agree on anything!"
I think we'll find that there are almost as many detailed definitions of atheism as there are atheists. Especially since traditionally when one became an atheist he'd pretty much be all on his own. For example, when I heard Dan Barker speak at an Atheists United meeting in Los Angeles circa 1985 (broadcast on their old weekly 15-minute radio program) about his deconversion from being a life-long fundamentalist and fundamentalist minister in Southern California and how he had to move all the way to Michigan before he was able to meet another atheist: "Where were you guys when I needed you?" So most atheists have had to define the term for themselves. Fortunately, that's changing with the Internet, but still we pretty much define for ourselves what atheism is and what it means to be an atheist.
Can't we just agree to disagree and get along?

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Message 163 of 414 (552249)
03-27-2010 6:15 PM
Reply to: Message 158 by Sparcz1978
03-27-2010 2:08 PM


Re: Atheism
Psalm 14:1 (King James Version)
Psalm 14
1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Just quoting a source or providing a bare link does not work here. You need to tell us what your point is.
But why stop with just one quote? Why don't you tell us everything that the Bible says about atheists? I know that there's a lot more, so why hold back? Is that all you know?
And could you please also tell us whether you're one of those who believe that if even one single thing the Bible says proves to be wrong, then the entire Bible is wrong and should be thrown in the trash. Over the decades, I've personally seen far too many creationists insist that emphatically and without any hope of compromise.

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