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Thread: Why is atheism so poorly represented in American politics?

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    What do you breed? Gangs on the streets killing each other for a spot to sell drugs.
    I bred people who think.

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    You breed people who are drowning in narcississm and have the moral level of street dogs. The results are obvious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wingrider View Post
    it seems that people who profess to be athiests have issues with people who look outside themselves for a meaning to life and why we are here,, belief in something greater than ourselves has been around since man first looked into the heavens and pondered about the why of it all. to me I cannot fathom why they believe life is an accident and has no meaning outside of this scant 70 years we exist on this panet,
    Do you not see you have answered your own question...

    According to those who say they know, man has existed for a blink of the eye compared to the length of time the universe has existed. We are not important in that history, any more than ants are in human history. We have delusions of grandeur. There is nothing special about man. We are sharp and ingenious and progressing quicker than other animals, but we are not the reason earth exists. We're just animals with a good imagination and an ability to think outside the box. At some point we have realised there may be something bigger at work and because making that stretch is how we have come to be so good at surviving and evolving, we are trying to apply it to the subject of how did we get here.

    It's a good theory, there may well be something bigger at work. It makes some sense. But none of you know it's a Catholic or bible bashing fundie and none of us should be killing to force our version of religion onto others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    You have it in one:



    Catholics breed Catholics, Protestants breed Protestants, Muslims breed Muslims, Hindus breed Hindus.

    How is that not insane?
    And Blacks breed Blacks, Asians breed Asians, Hispanics breed Hispanics, Whites breed Whites.

    What exactly is insane about it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    I bred people who think.

    People who think?.....or people that think like you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nunya View Post
    Well, most insane people do not believe they are insane.....and most atheist are positive that there isn't a God. Even though it can not be proven one way or the other.

    "Spirituality" doesn't have to be a needy belief in something that doesn't exist. It can equally and more validly be an appreciation of the great things in human behaviour and achievement.



    Also, just because there are people that use other's religious beliefs as a means to prosper that does not mean all religions are full of idiots.

    As Wingrider said, I really can't understand why atheists are so adamant that life is an accident. All you have to do is to look around you and see all of the "coincidence" that exist in life. To see how hardy life is, yet frail at the same time. How everything has a purpose. How life is created.

    A person's spirituality doesn't have to be about "flying teapots". All it has to be is to open your mind and look at the world around you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trinnity View Post
    I can't understand why the more militant (vocal) atheists are so angry that others believe in God.

    And they want to blame religion for the ills of man, when it is almost always man who is responsible for life's pain.
    Yeah. God was just lurking in Auschwitz. Wondering what to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nunya View Post
    People who think?.....or people that think like you?
    People who were not inculcated with insane " (that word again) ideas about flying teapots. They were equipped to choose for themselves.

    In fact one of them gave me "The God Delusion". I doubt he was being ironic.
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    Another Thread Fail. Failed to do homework again. There are countries far more religious than the U.S. in the world. One big one that I take extended vacations in: Mexico. Many of the Muslim countries also.

    Just what we need here: Another foreign liberal who is all opinion and no substance to support same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mainecoons View Post
    Another Thread Fail. Failed to do homework again. There are countries far more religious than the U.S. in the world. One big one that I take extended vacations in: Mexico. Many of the Muslim countries also.
    Just what we need here: Another foreign liberal who is all opinion and no substance to support same.
    Perhaps you have failed to comprehend what I said. Nowhere did I compare the US with any other country.

    But, assuming I had, what is your point?

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