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Medusa said:
tosca l am fed up with your judeo christian god obsession.do l ever call ALLAH islamic god ?
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Your personal feelings - that you're fed up - is noted.

However, that does not have any bearing on the facts which I'm trying to explain to Rainman regarding the connection between Judaism and Christianity - The God referred to for specific clarity that sets them apart from other gods, the Judeo-Christian God.


Judeo-Christian is a term used since the 1950s to stress the common ethical standards of Christianity and Judaism, such as the Ten Commandments. It has become part of American civil religion and is often used to promote inter-religious cooperation. Efforts in recent years have been made to include Islam, under the rubric of "Abrahamic religions."[1]

The term is also used by scholars to refer to the connections between the precursors of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism in the Second Temple period.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian
 
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I was raised in an LDS family and so I at first believed because of the way I was raised.

However, today I believe because of my own personal experiences.
 
Medusa said:
why are you atheist or believer ? .you have so many reasons or only one .discuss please.or maybe you just feel god ,thats all.l know it is not easy to stop believing in god and trying to live thinking there isnt any creator who helps you in the life but it is a process of questioning yourself and the world you live in.at the end of this adventure of questioning you may keep holding on to your beliefs or improve your way of analytical thinking ,begin to feel god by heart and create your own life philosophie which helps you interpret religions from a rational perspective.or you lose teh belief in god.tell what you experienced during this process.
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I'm an atheist because I believe very strongly that evidence is required to believe something. If someone walked up to me and said an imaginary flying spaghetti monster created us and wanted me to do things for him, I would want to see proof that this person wasn't just lying to me.

I was raised in an extremely religious southern christian home, and it took me 20 years to finally shake it off me. On a personal level, I reject christianity because it's an extremely hateful religion full of inconsistencies and immorality. The hateful, violent things that we were taught completely defy my moral compass, and I believe if a god did create me, he created me with compassion, and that compassion makes me and christianity completely incompatible.
 
Medusa said:
why are you atheist or believer ? .you have so many reasons or only one .discuss please.or maybe you just feel god ,thats all.l know it is not easy to stop believing in god and trying to live thinking there isnt any creator who helps you in the life but it is a process of questioning yourself and the world you live in.at the end of this adventure of questioning you may keep holding on to your beliefs or improve your way of analytical thinking ,begin to feel god by heart and create your own life philosophie which helps you interpret religions from a rational perspective.or you lose teh belief in god.tell what you experienced during this process.
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I'm an atheist because a belief in something which has absolutely no evidence for it and which is based on a book which is clearly drivel is utterly silly. I am a truth junky and don't like lying so faith is right out.

The OP has had the effect of reassuring me that my standard of English is better than I thought. ;)
 
RabidAlpaca said:
I'm an atheist because I believe very strongly that evidence is required to believe something. If someone walked up to me and said an imaginary flying spaghetti monster created us and wanted me to do things for him, I would want to see proof that this person wasn't just lying to me.

I was raised in an extremely religious southern christian home, and it took me 20 years to finally shake it off me. On a personal level, I reject christianity because it's an extremely hateful religion full of inconsistencies and immorality. The hateful, violent things that we were taught completely defy my moral compass, and I believe if a god did create me, he created me with compassion, and that compassion makes me and christianity completely incompatible.
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What type of evidence would be required for you to believe in God? I'm not talking about the Christian version of God, either, it could be any belief in God.
 
raised Catholic, sinned and strayed. Went Buddhist for a workable plan for the here and now (this life, not an afterlife).

Still not all that sure of anything - if not "enlightened" in Tibetan Buddhism, must go thru cyclic re-birth. So what do I gain? Either I am perfected to salvation or nirvannah....

Or i'm damned to hell, or cyclical rebirth......What is the ultimate truth is truly unknowable.. running out of time to make up my mind/
 
I am neither an atheist nor a religious person. I accept nature and the laws of physics as the creator and the reason for the lack of chaos. Others call it God. I call it nature and the laws of physics. It's the same thing to me. No church required.
 
fmw said:
I am neither an atheist nor a religious person. I accept nature and the laws of physics as the creator and the reason for the lack of chaos. Others call it God. I call it nature and the laws of physics. It's the same thing to me. No church required.
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I agree almost completely with this, except that I also believe that a supreme being sustains nature with energy. I don't necessarily believe in any particular definition supplied by scriptures or religions, because I believe they're all attempting to describe the same undefinable source.
 
I was born and raised catholic then became atheist at 15 and never looked back. Most of my family are still hard core catholics and Ive got a few christian friends. My evolution to atheism was gradual and the more I read the bible the more I realized that it was a work of fiction, my interest in the scientific method and history pretty much led me to conclude that there isnt enough evidence for the existence of a deity.
 
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