Well, I sympathize with them. I used to live under sharia law, so basically I was forced to live by mad men's rules. It's not easy when most of the world stands against you, even if you think that you're right.
I don't sympathize with the extreme atheists, they are just like the people they hate I understand how religion can be extremely limiting, just wanted to say that people who are extremely atheist also limits themselves in a way (although not really in a societal way)
usually I am scared of death, but in times like now I wish I was dead... so I am not really scared of dying, at least I will find my peace than this awful period in life I am going thru....
I never was scared of death I can die when I already achieved my goals in life or it was something worth dying for. I just don't want to die wasted or for something stupid.
Lbr, believing in god and thinking that your life is important and you have a purpose in this ****** world must be a great feeling.
Sometimes being an atheist sucks
Not really. It encourages me to be a better person to be honest. Make the best of everything, work hard, be thankful to your family and parents because it's because of them you're here, be nice to everyone, leave good impressions because you don't want to die leaving bad memories to people. I just don't want believe and don't want to worship a dictatorial, megalomaniac being or whatever. All I know is I'm a good person regardless of my beliefs in God and that's what matters in the end.
I don't sympathize with the extreme atheists, they are just like the people they hate I understand how religion can be extremely limiting, just wanted to say that people who are extremely atheist also limits themselves in a way (although not really in a societal way)
There is no such a thing as an "extreme atheists". If it so happened and some atheist become "extremists", they must've learned it from others
Arrogant atheists then. Atheists who thinks they are better than everyone else aka religious people.
those people are super dumb and annoying, but they don't really cause nearly as much actual harm as religious extremists, so i don't think we should hold them to the same standards : P
those people are super dumb and annoying, but they don't really cause nearly as much actual harm as religious extremists, so i don't think we should hold them to the same standards : P
Because one group is much larger than the other. That's like having a barrel of apples and a basket of oranges. You see that there are more rotten apples than oranges and assume that apples tend to be more rotten than oranges. That makes absolutely no sense.
Plus there was a recent study that says atheists are more likely to be psychopaths.
my school is so religious, I am scared to come out as atheist to my friends, but I am done with high school next week so poor 'em
Quite a few of my friends and parents know I'm not religious I never said explicitly that I was an atheist though, except for a few people. But basically they all know. So this is what it feels like to be out Now I wonder when I should come out for being gay.
I will never tell strangers I'm an atheist though. I've lost an opportunity when applying for a teen pageant-thingy because I wrote down my Twitter address and forgot that I've written something about atheism I will never do that again, imagine how many work opportunities I would lost here.
Quite a few of my friends and parents know I'm not religious I never said explicitly that I was an atheist though, except for a few people. But basically they all know. So this is what it feels like to be out Now I wonder when I should come out for being gay. I will never tell strangers I'm an atheist though. I've lost an opportunity when applying for a teen pageant-thingy because I wrote down my Twitter address and forgot that I've written something about atheism I will never do that again, imagine what my work life would be here.
yeah, I guess it's even worse in your country cause it's even more religious than Croatia
Because one group is much larger than the other. That's like having a barrel of apples and a basket of oranges. You see that there are more rotten apples than oranges and assume that apples tend to be more rotten than oranges. That makes absolutely no sense.
Plus there was a recent study that says atheists are more likely to be psychopaths.
To be fair, everyone can be psychopaths just as much. The difference is one is following a system beliefs that preach sexism, homophobia etc that make them psychopaths and can't be reasoned with, whereas the other isn't following any system of beliefs
I don't hate people who identify as believers though. Couldn't care less, as long as they don't let their beliefs to interfere with other people's rights (which let's be real, they often don't). And before anyone coming for me saying that China is an atheist nation, yes but it's also a communist country. Communism does not necessarily mean atheism. People need to learn the difference.
Arrogant atheists then. Atheists who thinks they are better than everyone else aka religious people.
Those arrogant people are either trolls, or not very smart to begin with. But then yet again, that's how MOST of us feel. I personally feel like I am not being manipulated by someone's fictional stories anymore. I don't know if that makes me smarter though. I might be wrong after all, or not, but that's when the word "agnostic" comes in handy.
I just thought of something really ****ed up last night and how weird life is.
We live are lives having all these unanswered questions. Does God exists? Why do we live? Do aliens exists? What else is out there? What's space? How where we created?
Hundred of years ago, people had questions about the sky, the sun, the moon, space. Was the Earth flat? People who claimed the Earth was a sphere were seen as crazy and were mocked. Little did they know hundreds of years later, they would be proven right. But they will never know or have the satisfaction of being right because they're dead.
And people now, who dedicate their lives to studying aliens or religion or whatever. And in their lifetime, they might never know the truth of find evidnce and people call them crazy, conspiracy theorists e.t.c Yet hundreds of years from now, science could prove that they indeed exists with evidence, or they might even make contact with us. But all those people who dedicated their lives to finding evidence on alien life would never feel the satisfaction of being right.
To be fair, everyone can be psychopaths just as much. The difference is one is following a system beliefs that preach sexism, homophobia etc that make them psychopaths and can't be reasoned with, whereas the other isn't following any system of beliefs
I don't hate people who identify as believers though. Couldn't care less, as long as they don't let their beliefs to interfere with other people's rights (which let's be real, they often don't). And before anyone coming for me saying that China is an atheist nation, yes but it's also a communist country. Communism does not necessarily mean atheism. People need to learn the difference.
That is not what the study found. It found atheists tend to be psychopaths.
My belief system does not preach sexism or homophobia. I have gone to church for years and have never heard anything homophobic.
Yet on this site homophobic words are used constantly by many, including myself, which I'm ashamed of. And that's one of the reasons I rarely come here anymore.
I just thought of something really ****ed up last night and how weird life is.
We live are lives having all these unanswered questions. Does God exists? Why do we live? Do aliens exists? What else is out there? What's space? How where we created?
Hundred of years ago, people had questions about the sky, the sun, the moon, space. Was the Earth flat? People who claimed the Earth was a sphere were seen as crazy and were mocked. Little did they know hundreds of years later, they would be proven right. But they will never know or have the satisfaction of being right because they're dead.
And people now, who dedicate their lives to studying aliens or religion or whatever. And in their lifetime, they might never know the truth of find evidnce and people call them crazy, conspiracy theorists e.t.c Yet hundreds of years from now, science could prove that they indeed exists with evidence, or they might even make contact with us. But all those people who dedicated their lives to finding evidence on alien life would never feel the satisfaction of being right.
I just thought of something really ****ed up last night and how weird life is.
We live are lives having all these unanswered questions. Does God exists? Why do we live? Do aliens exists? What else is out there? What's space? How where we created?
Hundred of years ago, people had questions about the sky, the sun, the moon, space. Was the Earth flat? People who claimed the Earth was a sphere were seen as crazy and were mocked. Little did they know hundreds of years later, they would be proven right. But they will never know or have the satisfaction of being right because they're dead.
And people now, who dedicate their lives to studying aliens or religion or whatever. And in their lifetime, they might never know the truth of find evidnce and people call them crazy, conspiracy theorists e.t.c Yet hundreds of years from now, science could prove that they indeed exists with evidence, or they might even make contact with us. But all those people who dedicated their lives to finding evidence on alien life would never feel the satisfaction of being right.
That's kind of ****ed up tbh.
This. It's crazy how we went from worshiping eclipse, the sun, idolatry, then God as we know now. I read a really old Chinese famous classic novel called The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and there was a scientist that asked to perform a surgery on this lord's head named Cao Cao to treat his severe headache and the scientist was beheaded instead because they thought he was crazy and trying to kill him Now look at us. Brain surgery is a common thing. Really interesting. And oh, I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
That is not what the study found. It found atheists tend to be psychopaths.
My belief system does not preach sexism or homophobia. I have gone to church for years and have never heard anything homophobic.
Yet on this site homophobic words are used constantly by many, including myself, which I'm ashamed of. And that's one of the reasons I rarely come here anymore.
Where can I read the article, link/resource please? I want to make sure it is not from a biased Christian website or something. Well, I'm thankful and glad that your church preaches positivity. I hope all religions can be peaceful like your church then.
I just thought of something really ****ed up last night and how weird life is.
We live are lives having all these unanswered questions. Does God exists? Why do we live? Do aliens exists? What else is out there? What's space? How where we created?
Hundred of years ago, people had questions about the sky, the sun, the moon, space. Was the Earth flat? People who claimed the Earth was a sphere were seen as crazy and were mocked. Little did they know hundreds of years later, they would be proven right. But they will never know or have the satisfaction of being right because they're dead.
And people now, who dedicate their lives to studying aliens or religion or whatever. And in their lifetime, they might never know the truth of find evidnce and people call them crazy, conspiracy theorists e.t.c Yet hundreds of years from now, science could prove that they indeed exists with evidence, or they might even make contact with us. But all those people who dedicated their lives to finding evidence on alien life would never feel the satisfaction of being right.
That's kind of ****ed up tbh.
That's the beauty of science. The day controversial theories like Darwin's Theory of Evolution become facts, is the day when people start paying their gods dust.