Hey I was just wondering how many unicyclists out there are atheists- I have seen a couple floating about on the forums but i have no idea.
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well, im not an atheist (if your going by atheism is anti-religious). you can call me ognostic, or however you spell it.
We don’t need this thread, we’ve already taken over the Christian Unicyclists thread.
Also I don’t know about other atheists, but I don’t have that urge to advertise that a lot of Christians do.
A christians work, just by being christian is to share the love. The need to do so is increased greatly by youth or the newness of it. Your toying with them only increases that energy. But I think that you already know that. Why not live and let live. As I’m sure that you would want if you were in their shoes.
On another note. Is atheism the belief that there is no higher power?
If that holds true, doesn’t that belief(by default) make you that higher power?
Finally, isn’t your consistant argument of the point, in and of itself, advertising or witnessing your point of view?
With all these threads…
Why doesn’t someone make a poll?
I find the entire concept of “witnessning” to be highly offensive. It also goes against the polciy you are trying ot promote of “live and let live”
A lack higher power does NOT by default make man the higher power. It eliminates the very nature of a power hirarchy to begin with factors.
But just so you know I find this thread just as offensive as the Christian one.
If you want to discuss Christianity fine I have no problem with that, but if you are going to do it in a public forum you need to allow other viewpoints into the discussion.
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It’s not a policy. It’s an action. Your missing my point. Let them witness. Let you tell them to go away. Then they will witness, you say go away. Before you two realise your not getting anywhere , an education could be had.
As the top of the food chain. Without a higher power, would make you as a human the higher power.Debatable, sure.
You are debating and chastising christianity. Here in a public forum. I’m open to other viewpoints. Are you?
I am open to their veiwpoints, I don’t mind them having a talking about it, but to do so at the exlusion of opposing viewpoints is not okay.
could our newfound obsession with religion have anything to do with hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides, floods and tsunamis?
edit: by which i mean recent events in the southern u.s., pakistan, central america, north eastern u.s., and asia of course
That’s not atheism, that’s satanism. Satanisim, contary to popular belief, is NOT the worship of satan (that’s a small off shoot) but the worship of humans beings as the ultimate power. The Church of Satan founded by laVay (Church of Satan - Wikipedia) was/is the main driving force. People that actually worship a deity of satan are very much the minority.
Atheism, in turn, is simply the opposite of theism as opposed to any sort of belief in people as a higher power or deity. Quite literally “the absence in the belief of a God.” “Soft atheism” is the absence of belief whereas “hard atheism” is an active believe in there not being a god. (Hard atheism, I think, requires just as much faith as theism)
Many people who claim they are atheist are actually soft atheists or even agnostics, (a-gnostic = without knowledge). Agnostics simply believe you can’t tell either way. Many people (including myself) are thus agnostic-atheists or soft atheists which basically means we can’t prove or disprove god, but we have a hunch that he isn’t around. (it’s pretty improbable)
I spent many years in college studying religion, theology, and theodicy in an effort to prove or disprove god and the sad truth is after studying all the so-called proofs and disproofs (problem of evil/aquinus/etc) I realized that you simply can’t answer the question. It all boils down to metaphysics anyway, and metaphysics sucks.
(please don’t bother trying to post your version of proof - I promise I’ve already studied it and can post why it’s fallible. Nothing new has some out of this debate for hundreds of years.)
Why is the Christian god always thought of as ‘He’?
Cathy
Because western christian society has been traditionally patriarchal.
Damn, I was hoping that it would be something else.
Cathy
I’m going to jack this thread slightly, I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while, has anyone here become interested or involved in LaVeyan satanism? That is satanism by the way, not satan worship. I’ve been pondering the principles and ideas every since i first read ‘The Long Hard Road out of Hell’ by Marilyn Manson about 18 months ago. Would be nice to think that there are some unicyclists out there who think the same.
Incidentally, please someone post your ‘version of proof’, Seager sounds like he’s all geared up to give someone a good spanking.
I have a friend at school who believes in it…it’s very a interesting concept.
I’d just like to ask a question, and that is there is a big difference between Darwinism, and Atheism, while I can hold respect for the beliefs of Darwinist, I cannot say the same for Atheist. That entitles the disbelief of an omnipotent consciousness that entitles matter, i.e. a God, even at the level of belief of that of Buddhism, where there God rarely if never interacts with the material world.
I’m not very picky along the lines of Religious doctrine, when it comes to this point, but anyone that doesn’t believe in a ‘God’ of any sorts, has not studied Quantum Theory or Relativity, and you are just as bad as those religious proponents that you say follow there beliefs ‘blindly’
Become an Evolutionist, Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist, and I’ll give you one-hundred percent of my support, but, Kill God or become a Mormon, and you’ve lost my respect.
Satansim makes a fair amount of sense, and I guess I could say that I’m “interested,” but I wouldn’t afilliate myself with any religion/sect. The only downside is some of the stupid “rituals.” I think that Satanisim is a “religion” that works out better with human nature.
heres another thing on the Church of Satan
Because he worked for six days building the world then had a day off. A woman would have carried on working, even if there was nothing to do.
It then took him ages to finish off the last few jobs, including finally mackling together a mate for the only person he’d made, using an offcut of their rib.
because he never got round to putting that fence up around the apple tree - and look what happened because of that.
Because a woman would have organised things better.
And anyway, what mother would sacrifice her only son?