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Atheists, lets get real

TypicalRussian said:
Lets assume at some point you were a Christian,Muslim, or Jew

Why did you switch to atheism?

Be Honest, hence why I said lets get real, no more stupid questioning, no more debating or dancing around, explain to ME why you are an atheist

I am nit trying to convert you either, all I want is for you to explain your position
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I became an atheist after reading the bible, and discerning there is no definitive proof that it contains truth about much of it's contents.
 
Integrityrespec said:
You lost or lacked faith.
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only man made gods and god of limited power or indifferent gods or malicious gods have any use for faith the man made gods require it to exist what would an all powerful all knowing benevolent god or even gods who just want you to know something ever need with faith?
 
TypicalRussian said:
Lets assume at some point you were a Christian,Muslim, or Jew

Why did you switch to atheism?

Be Honest, hence why I said lets get real, no more stupid questioning, no more debating or dancing around, explain to ME why you are an atheist

I am nit trying to convert you either, all I want is for you to explain your position
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"switch to atheism"... You make it sound like a religion.

No. I just dropped the 'God' stuff from my life.
 
TypicalRussian said:
Lets assume at some point you were a Christian,Muslim, or Jew

Why did you switch to atheism?

Be Honest, hence why I said lets get real, no more stupid questioning, no more debating or dancing around, explain to ME why you are an atheist

I am nit trying to convert you either, all I want is for you to explain your position
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Because the basis of these religions is that there is entity called god which has certain characteristics. When you examine the reality of our lives these ideas about god make no sense at all. It makes more sense to dispense with beliefs in an invisible being and focus on physical reality, the only thing we really know and can do anything about.
 
Logicman said:
Are you an atheist now?

If so, tell me what "fact" or argument did you buy into that says that Jesus Christ was not resurrected from the dead?
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The same fact or argument that says the prophet Muhammad did not rise to heaven in Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Mosque there even marks the spot which he did so. What more fact or argument do you want?
 
I don't believe there's a supreme being who simply wished the universe in existence because I don't believe there's a supreme being who simply wished the universe in existence. It really is that simple.
 
stevecanuck said:
I don't believe there's a supreme being who simply wished the universe in existence because I don't believe there's a supreme being who simply wished the universe in existence. It really is that simple.
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Why not?


Say we're living in a simulation like in The Matrix. Or if you've played The Sims game, a real advanced version of that game.

Wouldn't the owners of the simulation be like God? For example, they could turn off the simulation, ending the entire universe in the blink of a eye.
 
swing_voter said:
Why not?


Say we're living in a simulation like in The Matrix. Or if you've played The Sims game, a real advanced version of that game.

Wouldn't the owners of the simulation be like God? For example, they could turn off the simulation, ending the entire universe in the blink of a eye.
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You don't have a lot of evidence for that.
 
swing_voter said:
Why not?


Say we're living in a simulation like in The Matrix. Or if you've played The Sims game, a real advanced version of that game.

Wouldn't the owners of the simulation be like God? For example, they could turn off the simulation, ending the entire universe in the blink of a eye.
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Sure. A lot of things COULD be. There COULD be parallel universes. There COULD be aliens. There COULD be a Loch Ness monster and Sasquatch. That guy at the grocery store really COULD have been Elvis after all. There could even be a pink elephant in your backyard right now. There's literally no end to the number of things that COULD be. You can't believe them all.

That's why it's not a good idea to just believe stuff that COULD be- only stuff you have some evidence for.
 
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swing_voter said:
Why not?


Say we're living in a simulation like in The Matrix. Or if you've played The Sims game, a real advanced version of that game.

Wouldn't the owners of the simulation be like God? For example, they could turn off the simulation, ending the entire universe in the blink of a eye.
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Because I don't. Religious people say it happened, and when I hear the stories I just simply don't believe them. Easy peasy.
 
swing_voter said:
Why not?


Say we're living in a simulation like in The Matrix. Or if you've played The Sims game, a real advanced version of that game.

Wouldn't the owners of the simulation be like God? For example, they could turn off the simulation, ending the entire universe in the blink of a eye.
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Because I don't. Religious people explain how they believe it happened, and when I hear the stories I just simply don't believe them. Easy peasy.

There's a tribe in the Amazon that believes good people became another star in the sky when they die, and bad people become jaguars. Guess what? I don't believe that either.
 
devildavid said:
Because the basis of these religions is that there is entity called god which has certain characteristics. When you examine the reality of our lives these ideas about god make no sense at all. It makes more sense to dispense with beliefs in an invisible being and focus on physical reality, the only thing we really know and can do anything about.
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what Ideas exactly?
 
Yasureoktoo said:
"switch to atheism"... You make it sound like a religion.

No. I just dropped the 'God' stuff from my life.
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atheism is a form of religious thinking, just like how anarchy is a form of government and political thinking yet requires neither for their goals
 
blarg said:
lets see started reading the old testament and at some point after Moses and crew left Egypt i tossed the the bible aside to much evil done in the name of a god

in my church was taught that anything sexual outside of a heterosexual marriage was the 3rd worst thing you could do

so i tried real hard to quit masturbation and to not think about sex it was hard ( ha ha ) but i managed it for weeks then i just dreamed about sex and came any way so it was pretty clear the prohibition was bull****

didn't like how my church treated gay people it was pointlessly hostile and cruel

and as i got older it was easy to see that things like the flood and the tower of babel and the creation in genesis weer myths

and that taking things on faith and accepting the judgments of others just because weer bad ideas

their did not seem to be any proof of god even though a god could make itself quite clear if it was real and i did try to ask it if it was to deafening silence
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nofap has good advantages so stop it

 
TypicalRussian said:
nofap has good advantages so stop it

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unless those advantages are more frequent orgasms not to interested

seems unlikely any god is involved since the sex drive would be its doing....even though it could make people and would not need to create sex in the 1st place
 
Exquisitor said:
Atheism is one's way of protecting oneself from the deluded concepts of others and their pathways.

We all know God exists, and even your God and the Christian God all exist, but what I don't want is you telling me how He exists, because the human will always attempt to lord it over the human, so there must be a stalwart defense, and that defense is Atheism.
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what deluded concepts?
 
OrphanSlug said:
I studied history, theology, and philosophy. Add in some science here and there and I was on my way.

Add on watching how “Christians” really conduct themselves all over the world and the case was closed.
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how would they conduct themselves?
 
blarg said:
unless those advantages are more frequent orgasms not to interested

seems unlikely any god is involved since the sex drive would be its doing....even though it could make people and would not need to create sex in the 1st place
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irrelavant
 
blarg said:
very relevant what i want shapes what is a good advantage for me

you claimed not masturbating had good advantages for me
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Moral judgments of good or bad can exist only in terms of other people. If you're hurting others, that's bad. If not, it's good.

If there's no one around and you're the only living thing on a deserted island, you can knock yourself out doing whatever you want. Why do you need other-worldly deities telling you that?
 
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