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originally posted by: MrsNonSpecific
a reply to: undo
I had the same thing but in the opposite direction. Most of my friends became more deeply involved in their christian faith, and i haven't really heard from them.
Their faith might have been a factor, as everything I said, unintentionally, might have got them the wrong way, and our lives moved in opposite directions, as it can naturally do anyway.
I did think they were judging me a little bit though, especially about my views on sex and relationships.
Well, if you choose to believe in unverifiable things that should be expected.
originally posted by: undo
i mean, almost the moment you become a christian, depending on whether you did so because you really wanted to develop your spiritual muscle, vs. whether you just saw it as a social convenience, your life becomes a freakin maze of cognitive dissonance.
originally posted by: Metallicus
I feel sorry for those of you that are religious in today's climate of persecution and oppression.
Nope, I just don't believe in unverifiable sky-gods.
originally posted by: Lysergic
originally posted by: Metallicus
I feel sorry for those of you that are religious in today's climate of persecution and oppression.
I think you mean lack of kowtowing as opposed to actual persecution. ROFLMAO
Behave with the persecution and oppression line, maybe in bacward nations but in the Western world? Really?
originally posted by: Metallicus
So many people that don't have a religion or belief in God spend a lot of time worrying about those that do. I feel sorry for those of you that are religious in today's climate of persecution and oppression.
originally posted by: grainofsand
a reply to: undo
Nope, I just don't believe in unverifiable sky-gods.
I don't assert that they do not exist just that there is a complete lack of verifiable evidence to support such claims so I do not believe, and all religions are equally lacking any evidence, from Abrahamic to Zoroastrianism and everything in between.
My position requires no faith, and I am open to become a believer if there were ever some evidence to support such faith based claims.
There is not though, so I find it amusing and quite illogical.
The victim Christian card is lame in the Western world though, just mostly butt-hurt people who whine that people such as myself don't show the respect that they imagine their particular belief deserves.
Belief and faith does not merit any particular respect any more or less than my lack of faith does.
I've already stated that I support anyones right to a belief, so you are preaching to the wrong man.
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: grainofsand
Nope, I just don't believe in unverifiable sky-gods.
How do you know that is what religious people believe in? It makes a better narrative for you to frame it that way, but it doesn't make you any more right than religious people.
EVERYONE has the right to their own spiritual beliefs even if they are none.
originally posted by: Lysergic
a reply to: Metallicus
If a lack of kowtowing is rude, then so I be.
originally posted by: Metallicus
So many people that don't have a religion or belief in God spend a lot of time worrying about those that do. I feel sorry for those of you that are religious in today's climate of persecution and oppression.