There are those who believe in God and those who don't believe in God yet. - Athiesm is a fad

[cbdo2007]

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[scheming daemons]

2. Um.... welcome to DU?

You might want to properly spell Atheism.... mis-spellings set off the freeper alarm.

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[jasi2006]

47. LOL...nt

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[spoony]

4. As a theist I'd say this is disrespectful

People usually arrive at their beliefs with a degree of care and thought, whether or not we agree with them. If things were cut and dry we'd all be in agreement.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. I'd like to recommend your reply

It is spot on.

[roguevalley]

39. It seems to me that there are two ULTRA personal things a person

wrestles with that are no one else's business: their own mortality and what/how they feel about God. How they end up on either question is no one else's business and no one else's to challenge or ridicule. However, people do it all the time.

[SidneyCarton]

44. I'd like to rec your comment too.

I may not agree with an atheist's beliefs, but I never think they arrived at them lightly.

[JerseygirlCT]

95. Absolutely agree.

If believers are asking for respect, then it certainly behooves us to treat atheists with the same respect we'd like to be treated with.

[sam sarrha]

99. i think the people who arent born into it join for the wrong reasons.. Evangelicals round them up,.

and i dont think many people are well enough informed of the alternatives to cults..

i used meditation to quit drinking, 28 years of alcoholism,.. it worked really good. after meditating about 6 months i ran into a Tibetan Lama ..this was in West Texas.. i was invited to his Chinrezig Center, i studied Buddhism for 4 years, 3 meetings a week in meditation, various mind training techniques, etc before i became a Buddhist. Buddhism isn't a Religion it is a method of training the mind.. it gas no god or Prophet. Buddha means one who is Awake. Buddhism is based on a single Logical statement a man discovered 2600 yr ago. it involves no faith, it works or it doesn't. i really didn't learn that much, i learned much thru their instutional practice and techniques.. i had come to believe what Buddhism was before i really knew what it really was..

i was a scientist i had done extensive studies in religion and "Groups".. i was even kidnapped by the Moonies and taken 500 miles away, it took me a week to get away from them... and back home.

people do things because someone makes it sound good or they think they'll get layed thru it... people in this country are very ignorant about reality..

[muriel_volestrangler]

101. Thank you (nt)

[PDJane]

5. That's a statement of belief.........

with no empirical basis in fact. Much like Christianity in general.

[AlinPA]

6. ???

[Kazak]

Define "God"

:shrug:

[blogslut]

7. Wrong

I was born again in 1977. The more I learned about religion, the longer I lived, the less I believed in it.

[scheming daemons]

8. There are those who use their rational mind .. and those that still believe in god

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[DeSwiss]

77. +1

[Sal316]

80. Faith and reason are not incompatible.

Believing that they are makes you no better than RW fundie nutjobs.

[Quantess]

9. I asked the Mods to move this to the Religion Forum

because that's where this thread belongs.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. If you want respect for what you believe or don't believe,

then respect what others believe or don't believe.

[BeyondGeography]

11. You just wanted to test-drive that unrecommend feature, didn't ya?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. This should be an interesting discussion

I would like to know what evidence you have to back up this claim.

:popcorn:

[Mari333]

13. I believe for every drop of rain that falls

a flower grows.

[DeSwiss]

78. I believe that somewhere in the darkest night....

...a candle glows.

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. When you die, you won't go to heaven, you'll just cease to exist.

Some times that keeps me up at night. Right now in your case it makes me pleasantly amused.

[realisticphish]

23. haha nt

[BeyondGeography]

27. Lots of great songs about that

"Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave, don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be..."

[ContinentalOp]

38. Haha, I thought you were going to post this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW5eco9Fcfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0v2bVX8j4

[BeyondGeography]

52. Damn...to think Marilyn is the only Manson in the Atheist Music Guide

http://www.atheistempire.com/entertainment/music_lyrics.php

[ixion]

17. ...

:rofl:

[realisticphish]

18. a multiple century fad!

It's on it's way out, I swear

[Orrex]

20. Hey, if I hit "Unrecommend," will that give this thread -1 recs?

[Vinca]

24. It didn't work for me.

:rofl:

[realisticphish]

26. Here's a thought:

can you unrecommend what you have not recommended?

ohmmmmm.....

[dysfunctional press]

22. what about those of us who used to believe in god...

but have since 'seen the light' of common sense and reason?

[Sal316]

81. Seen the light of common sense and reason?

Then I'd posit that your faith was immature to begin with.

[tekisui]

25. What inane tripe.

[peacebird]

28. There are posts that deserve "hide" - but seriously - the purpose of this topic was what, exactly?

:wtf:

[csziggy]

70. Flame war n/t

But I think they achieved this: and soon this:

[Cant trust em]

29. Time to enact my new buddy, the unrec button.

Cha-ching!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

30. Hit-an-run extraordinaire............

No surprises here.

[YOY]

31. Hit and run. He had some fun. Soon he's done.

If it's what he believes then I'm glad I'm not his son.

[RagAss]

32. Hahahhaha - Santa and Mother Goose too !

joker

[ContinentalOp]

33. This rock & roll thing will never last.

Pretty soon the kids will wise up and realize that Glen Miller is REAL music.

[NeedleCast]

34. You spelled Athiesm (sic) wrong you nit

[Mari333]

35. oh my GOODness!

[Ikonoklast]

36. Show your proof backing your assertation.

It's hot in Missouri today, you should have worn your hat.

[MercutioATC]

37. What is "Athiesm"? (sp)

If you're gonna post a joke/inflammatory thread, at least get the spelling of the "attacked" group right :)

[SidneyCarton]

40. Nice flamebait skippy.

Nothing pisses people off more than telling them that their deeply held beliefs are mere immature fads, you're going to get reamed, and going to deserve every second of it.

IBTL/IBTTR/T

[Geek_Girl]

41. Unrecommended

By that logic: so is christianity and every other religion.

:crazy:

[RagAss]

42. See my sig line ? Read it.

Then get back to me with an answer if you can come up with one. Spelling Counts !!!!

[Solly Mack]

43. Somebody heard something they thought was clever and decided to share it

Isn't that just so cute!

And you know they heard it instead of reading it because of the spelling.

[armyowalgreens]

45. I use to believe in God. Now I don't. How does that fit into your claim?

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[armyowalgreens]

56. Wait does that mean I'm now John Kerry?

:+

[leftofcool]

60. LOL Hi John, welcome to DU

[mkultra]

46. sucker born every minute

[frebrd]

48. In my case a "fad" of seventy-some years' duration, so far.

Since I became old enough to formulate an idea.

:shrug:

Edited for punctuation.

[wuushew]

50. The new unrecommend feature is useless without negative values

I am just not satisifed with the <0.

[Kerrytravelers]

51. I remember when I had my first beer.

[mkultra]

55. man, ive been waiting all day to throw that one

I think you also have to say "too" at the end.

[northzax]

53. I suppose

because after all, no one is around to complain when there is no heaven or hell, right? it's awfully hard for dead, decomposing bodies to make much of a stink about it (well, except for the decomposition stink, I suppose)

[Warpy]

54. Smug flamebait

Belief or the lack of it are probably hardwired.

There is nothing you can do to convert an atheist except to badger him into lip service with nothing behind it but resentment toward you.

There's probably nothing an atheist can do to shake your faith.

Now sod off.

[omega minimo]

57. Does one Un/believer cancel our one Rec/believer?

[charlie]

58. Your preachifying could use some work, Brother Oblivious n/t

[tkmorris]

59. There are those who believe in the Easter Bunny and those who don't... yet.

But they will. Oh yes, they will.

[frogmarch]

62. What an evil-looking Easter bunny!

:rofl:

[armyowalgreens]

63. ...

[frogmarch]

64. I wonder why the kid is crying.

The costume is wonderful, but poor baby!

[TokenQueer]

68. What the fuck is THAT......

...and why would that girl go anywhere near that thing?!? Hilarious! :rofl:

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[surrealAmerican]

65. You should be aware that a majority of atheists ...

... were brought up in a religion. So it would appear your statement is at best wrong; at worst, backwards.

[libertypirate]

66. If man is in gods image

god must be a plague. Man has been willing to sacrifice anything that stands in the way.

[Ignis]

67. Ees spillung uh fadd two?

:banghead:

[Duer 157099]

69. They used to say the Internet was a fad too

But in the same way that the absence of the internet preceeded its presence, so too did atheism preceed any subsequent belief.

So atheism is older than any theism, so which is the real fad?

[Odin2005]

102. Actually, IMO primitive Animism is older than both.

Primitive Animism = the naive projection of human social reality on the universe.
Theism = The abstraction of that naive projection
Atheism = the rejection of that naive projection

[mitchum]

71. It's a long way down from Augustine to a bumper sticker

A definite decline in the quality of the marketing department

[LostInAnomie]

72. There are fucking idiots that think "Athiesm" is a fad...

eom

[Oregone]

73. There are those who believe in God and those who don't believe in God yet. - Theism is a fad

[redqueen]

86. Or... there are atheists and those who are not yet atheists. Religion is a fad.

A torturously long, laborious, and costly fad.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

74. Wow, what a dumb and useless OP

Did you think that up yourself or did you hear it at your daily Westboro Baptist church gathering?

Whatever, it gives me my first chance to use the nifty new Unrecommend feature.

[RagAss]

75. Banished to the Religion Forum .... HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[chrisa]

76. Completely disagree

There are life long atheists as there are life long believers. Atheism has been around forever, and will be around forever with some people being atheists their entire lives.

[DeSwiss]

79. It’s all god's fault.

- He's always so busy helping people win ballgames and Oscars and shit like that, then you turn around and there's atheists all over the place. Why can’t god just admit he has too much on his plate and let someone else take over?

/semi-sarcasm

http://russellsteapot.com/comics/2007/diminishing-skills.html">God's diminishing skills set

[salvorhardin]

82. For a fad it sure has been around for a long time

Of course, what did those ancient Greeks know?

By the way, when will you idiots learn how to spell?

[Meshuga]

83. Kicked and unrecommended

Thanks for littering on the forum! :eyes:

[dmallind]

84. Guess Unrec doesn't stop juvenile brainless shite being posted in the first place... NT

[saltpoint]

85. Your 'yet' has too much punch in your post.

A god or gods or goddesses in one form or another are historical mainstays. It's a smorgasboard. People take a bite of this and a bite of that, maybe fill their plate with only one dish -- whichever approach they think best based on how hungry they are.

There have been atheists around, I suppose roughly for the same span as the god-followers. Neither 'position' of belief is a 'fad.' Both have long and provocative and highly interesting histories.

'Yet' is better used very sparingly and only then for fair assessments.

[Deep13]

87. For me it was the other way around.

I went from believing, or at least wanting to believe, to doubt to nonbelief, to acceptance that a lack of gods is a physical fact.

If atheism is a fad, how come religious writers have been trying to refute it for millenia. I seem to recall many parts of the OT pointing out that nonbelievers are fools or whatever. This means there were in fact people who did not believe back then. And it's not just Abrahamic religions either. So it's no fad.

[rd_kent]

88. Really? Thats all you have to say?

No, really! Why don't I believe in dog yet? Do you know (not believe, but KNOW for a fact) something that I do not?

[dorkulon]

89. Wow, what an amazingly profound statement! My worldview has been instantly turned on its head!

Praise Chthulu! :woohoo:

[rd_kent]

90. And by the way cbdo2007, where the F*** did you go?

Did he get banned? He makes a flamebait statement like that and does not respond? Pussy!

[frogmarch]

91. it appears that s/he was just a fad.

A passing fad.

[Evoman]

96. Sock puppet, I bet.

[skepticscott]

92. Sheesh...flamebait

Surprised this thing wasn't locked a long time ago. When the OP doesn't even make an argument or bother to respond to comments, it's pretty clear that they are not interested even in contentious discussion, only in annoying people.

[and-justice-for-all]

93. Dumb..nt

[sam sarrha]

94. ........... ............. .............. ahhh ....which god. ..????

[sakabatou]

97. Obvious troll is obvious

[sam sarrha]

98. obviously some Freeper in a contest to see who could get the most replys stirring an ant hill

[dogsmycopilot]

100. Dictionary anyone?

I'm thinking you need to re-read the definition of fad. Fads typically don't last centuries. But even assuming you are right the space between belief- worship-and love is obvious. Thinking, "ok there is a god," is a long way from thinking there's a god I want to worship. I mean no offense as I am on your territory here, but have you thought about why you felt the need to say this?