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Topic started on 21-10-2009 @ 07:42 AM by ModernAcademia

Atheist ads to adorn New York subway stations


www.cnn.com
Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming "Thank God" when arriving at their destination subway station beginning next Monday.

Or at least that's what a coalition of eight atheist organizations are hoping, having purchased a month-long campaign that will place their posters in a dozen busy subway stations throughout Manhattan.

The advertisements ask the question, written simply over an image of a blue sky with wispy white clouds: "A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are yo
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reply posted on 21-10-2009 @ 08:20 AM by Ridhya
reply to post by LiveForever8


Haha you really should watch south park my friend
they got so ticked off everyone saying 'a world without religion would be peaceful' so they made the episode with the Atheist war between different factions... I really think it is true. People go to war over ideology and bloodlust and racism and prejudice and greed, religion is not the cause, its the excuse.

Personally I think atheism is just as stupid as belief, both are improvable and are based on something that can not be known. Psh dont listen to me I am just trying to convert you to agnostic for profit


reply posted on 21-10-2009 @ 08:28 AM by Shamrock87
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Good for them, they have every right to do it. The problem is that they always seem kind of pompous.


reply posted on 21-10-2009 @ 08:33 AM by memoir
Originally posted by Clark Savage Jr.
Yes. Atheism itself is really nothing more than a religion for non believers in religion. Stupidity in its purest form.


With all due respect, sir, that is quite possibly the most uninformed thing I have ever heard

From Princeton.edu (wordnetweb.princeton.edu...



Religion
Noun
# S: (n) religion, faith, religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
# S: (n) religion, faith, organized religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)

Atheism
Noun
* S: (n) atheism, godlessness (the doctrine or belief that there is no God) * S: (n) atheism (a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods)


No supernatural belief = not a religion.

To clear up any thoughts that this post might be biased; I am neither religious nor atheist. My creed is simply "I don't know" - and any person who claims that they do know has a severe misunderstanding of the world around them and/or of their religion.

It is a god's prerogative to not be understood and it is a human's nature to misunderstand.

[edit on 21-10-2009 by memoir]


reply posted on 21-10-2009 @ 08:36 AM by mikerussellus
reply to post by ModernAcademia


My two cents?

Religion is a good thing. It provides a moral compass to our lives, our society.

The folks that want to deny religion, or espouse atheism, deny themselves a moral reference.

Their tenet (as it were) is ambiguous and has no basis in anything.


reply posted on 21-10-2009 @ 08:41 AM by ModernAcademia
reply to post by mikerussellus


If I could be so bold as to say that you need to examine yourself if you think that you aren't capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong without the use of an archaic book written by 'god' knows who.

lol @ a moral compass.

do you know how violent abrahamic religions are?
morality is the last thing I think about when I think of the top 3 religions.


reply posted on 21-10-2009 @ 08:44 AM by mikerussellus
reply to post by ModernAcademia


I agree that there are extremists, and that religion, in the past, has provided more than enough bloodsport for the masses.

But morality has to have some sort of reference. Morals aren't ambiguous. They have to have a cornerstone from somewhere.
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