News: Atheist Comes Out

RainDreamer

This is something else

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"I don’t have to hide anymore," Northwest Christian University student body president Eric Fromm told the Register-Guard. "I know that people accept me for who I am."

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The following year, when he started telling people he was an atheist, his close friends took it in stride, but many others didn't.

"Sometimes they would verbally attack me, sometimes they would give me the cold shoulder, and sometimes they just gave me dirty looks," Fromm wrote in the Beacon Bolt. "I find it ironic that some NCU students will talk about how they were ridiculed in high school because for their faith, but now, when the roles are reversed, they are doing the very things that hurt them."

After a while, "rumors" about Fromm's attitude toward Christians and the Christian faith began to spread, and he started fearing for his position as student body president.

Such incredible bravery

Doing it before some flop gays like me step out of their open closet

http://gawker.com/student-body-presi...m-a-1460449332

Frankmusik

More people need to let other people live their lives the way they want to. No reason to ridicule them if they're not hurting anyone. Ridiculous.

Brando

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Originally posted by Frankmusik

More people need to let other people live their lives the way they want to. No reason to ridicule them if they're not hurting anyone. Ridiculous.

Religious people hurt other people though. So many terrible things are done in faith, it's ridiculous.

AlphaOmega

ready for the one sided delusional commentary that is atrl.

AlphaOmega

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Originally posted by Brando

Religious people hurt other people though. So many terrible things are done in faith, it's ridiculous.

that was fast.

:eyeroll:

Adonis

Big whoop! I'm a atheist too.

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Originally posted by AlphaOmega

that was fast.

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but did he lie though? Religion has been used to justify everything from slavery to genocide...and a whole host of other human rights abuses.

Aurora

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Originally posted by Brando

Religious people hurt other people though. So many terrible things are done in faith, it's ridiculous.

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I applaud him for making his own decision.

karron0624

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Originally posted by Brando

Religious people hurt other people though. So many terrible things are done in faith, it's ridiculous.

And Atheist hurt people as well. Many people love to use religion or lack thereof to hurt people. There are bad people on both sides.

OT: Good for him. Bad for the supposedly "religious" people who can't accept others.

Mezter

That's good for him. Become who you really are

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Originally posted by Brando

Religious people hurt other people though. So many terrible things are done in faith, it's ridiculous.

I've seen Atheists say just as hurtful though.

Brando

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Originally posted by karron0624

And Atheist hurt people as well. Many people love to use religion or lack thereof to hurt people. There are bad people on both sides.

Atheists don't go on killing religious people just because they are religious or because they believe in something else.

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Originally posted by Mezter

I've seen Atheists say just as hurtful though.

saying something =/= doing something.

Do I really need to bring up countless examples from history resulting in millions and millions and millions and millions of deaths in the name of religion?

Bayonsay

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Originally posted by karron0624

And Atheist hurt people as well. Many people love to use religion or lack thereof to hurt people. There are bad people on both sides.

OT: Good for him. Bad for the supposedly "religious" people who can't accept others.

But let's not forget the main point. Theists use their religion to justify their actions. I don't see Atheists doing the same, using the fact they aren't religious to justify killing another person, so they're not really comparable in this context.