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I came out of the closet today
2007-06-29, 1:50 AM #41
When I told my mother she took it calmly.
She believes in god but she has always encouraged us to think for ourselves and to never follow anyone or anything blindly, including her.

When I think about it, my mum is freaking awesome.
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2007-06-29, 1:52 AM #42
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2007-06-29, 2:09 AM #43
I came out of the closet today after taking a huge dump. :rolleyes:

Anyway...
When my brother's girlfriend told her mother that she wanted to resign from the church her mother freaked out, too.
But she was upset because of what their priest, their neighbours, etc. would think. Not because her daughter might go to hell. :downs:
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2007-06-29, 7:38 AM #44
Originally posted by SoldierSnoop:
everyone believes in god in a foxhole

My buddy just proved this wrong about two months ago.
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2007-06-29, 8:10 AM #45
I got thrown out of my church.

I was confirmed Lutheran. Shortly after, there was a split in the Episcopalian Church, as a minister came out as gay, and the things done in the Episcopalian church are pretty much paralleled in the Lutheran Church. Our pastor was extremely anti-homosexual. In our youth group meetings, I started asking, ya know, why it matters. Why there are hundreds of passages of Jesus saying to "love your neighbor", treat others kindly, etc, etc, and 1 or 2 cryptic messages that could possibly be interpreted as discussing homosexuality at all.

Other people in the group were started to come to my side, the head pastor took me aside one day, told me to quiet down, at which point I told him to f-off, and I was asked not to return.

I pretty much realized religion was all BS afterwards, and have lived guilt-free ever since.
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2007-06-29, 8:20 AM #46
Originally posted by SoldierSnoop:
everyone believes in god in a foxhole


I always thought this was a dumb saying.

There are plenty of atheists who are still atheists in dangerous situations.
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2007-06-29, 8:43 AM #47
Originally posted by Emon:
Oh my god, are you god?


That is probably my favorite futurama moment.





That said. My mother is a horrible racist.

I used to have a black girlfriend.

When I move out I'm leaving sticky notes in every place in this house we banged.
2007-06-29, 8:53 AM #48
I'm glad I wasn't born to retarded parents.
2007-06-29, 10:07 AM #49
If I told my parents I was religious they would probablys laugh at me.
2007-06-29, 11:04 AM #50
The correct phrase is "There are no atheists in foxholes"
Not only is this not actually true, it also doesn't imply they believe in a specific god.
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2007-06-29, 11:14 AM #51
I've always been too scared to tell my dad that I'm an atheist. He shifts almost weekly on his religious stance, so I find it best never to bring it up. I remember my brother asking once if Jesus was real and my dad started yelling at me saying that he bet I believed Batman was real. That traumatized me.
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2007-06-29, 11:19 AM #52
Originally posted by quesadilla_red:
I remember my brother asking once if Jesus was real and my dad started yelling at me saying that he bet I believed Batman was real. That traumatized me.


What... the... ****?
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2007-06-29, 11:33 AM #53
I believe Batman is real.

Tell your dad to bring it.
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2007-06-29, 11:53 AM #54
Originally posted by Emon:
I came out of the closet today


You were in your closet?

I was in my kitchen cleaning a dish and I heard it, so I came out.
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2007-06-29, 12:27 PM #55
Batman.. isn't... real?
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2007-06-29, 1:06 PM #56
Originally posted by Jep:
What... the... ****?

That was basically my reaction. My dad's crazy. :awesome:

Originally posted by JediKirby:
Batman.. isn't... real?

But Jesus is. >_>
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2007-06-29, 2:06 PM #57
EMON'S NOT A CHRRRRRRIS-CHUN!
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2007-07-01, 12:59 PM #58
Well, my brother and sister know I am an Agnostic Atheist but my parents don't. Frankly, I could care less if they know, but it doesn't really concern them. I'm not going to go out of my way to explain my religious beliefs to someone who is just going to make a huge ordeal over it. My parents don't go to church anymore, but I know they would bother me about it.
2007-07-01, 1:01 PM #59
Originally posted by Trigger Happy Chewie:
I could care less


NO.
nope.
2007-07-01, 1:02 PM #60
Originally posted by Jon`C:
I'm glad I wasn't born to retarded parents.


Aye.
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2007-07-01, 5:13 PM #61
I live in australia where there is a distinct lack of fundamentalist churches.

Both my parents and I are not all that religous. Also, I do believe that there is some higher power out there somewhere, even if it is just an extra-dimentional being of great power.

Also, to those people that would get yelled at for saying that they have found religion, may I ask why your parents are like that. I mean, there are atheists that if they notice the slightest refferance to religion in public they go on a tirade about how "those people" are forcing their religion onto them, even though they basicly force their own lackthereof onto the public qute a bit.

It is an interesting paradox, the son of the woman that got rid of school found religion, and there have been many cases in which the children of pushy religous parents have turned athiest because of the way they were forced to believe.
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2007-07-01, 5:23 PM #62
No one's forced to believe anything. And an atheist that gets upset by a public display of religion is silly. However, when a religion starts overtaking a public school, we have every damned reason to say something. We're not forcing atheism, we're forcing factuality as opposed to admittedly faith based BELIEFS. Schools are not harbors for beliefs.
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2007-07-01, 5:24 PM #63
Originally posted by alpha1:
I mean, there are atheists that if they notice the slightest refferance to religion in public they go on a tirade about how "those people" are forcing their religion onto them, even though they basicly force their own lackthereof onto the public qute a bit.


What's really funny is when you live in a predominantly christian population, a muslim population begins to develop, and the christians go on legal crusades to have public displays of islamic symbols removed.
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2007-07-01, 5:57 PM #64
It really is a shame that religion has been ruined by the fools of the world. I mean, not like it comes as a surprise, there's about the entire span of human history as proof, but still, it's a good idea in theory.
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2007-07-01, 7:09 PM #65
Originally posted by JediKirby:
And an atheist that gets upset by a public display of religion is silly.

If you're referring to "In God We Trust" on our currency or "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, you couldn't be more wrong. The US was designed to be a completely secular government, which includes currency and the Pledge. I think the reason most atheists have a problem with these is because they weren't always there.
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2007-07-01, 7:10 PM #66
I always thought "In God We Trust" was just a clever joke. Because you can trust money. So money is God.
2007-07-01, 7:55 PM #67
Originally posted by Emon:
If you're referring to "In God We Trust" on our currency or "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, you couldn't be more wrong. The US was designed to be a completely secular government, which includes currency and the Pledge. I think the reason most atheists have a problem with these is because they weren't always there.

The Pledge of Allegiance had "under God" in it because of the Red Scare in the 50s.
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2007-07-01, 8:06 PM #68
What really gets me are people who say the U.S. is a "Christian nation" that it was founded upon "Christian values." So I guess that's why all the founding fathers were deists, atheists or similar. :downs:
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2007-07-01, 8:09 PM #69
I don't think there were many atheists back then. Deist was about as far in that direction as is got, though I imagine that a great deal of society was apathetic to the whole situation.
2007-07-01, 8:11 PM #70
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
I don't think there were many atheists back then.


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2007-07-01, 8:15 PM #71
They were there, they just didn't say anything.
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2007-07-01, 8:28 PM #72
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
I don't think there were many atheists back then.


i dont think there was toast back then.

... hey this is kind of fun.
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2007-07-01, 8:40 PM #73
Originally posted by Wolfy:
EMON'S NOT A CHRRRRRRIS-CHUN!


He's into dark sided stuff. Psychics, scary stuff. Everything... ungoldy...

Anyway, yeah. On a sort of tangent I wonder what 'differences' there are in atheists-by-upbringing versus atheists who made the decisions on their own. As in which one is more likely to believe later on, how they feel toward religion, etc.

Regardless, sorry to hear about the reactions garnered to "coming out", but I wonder, if they are true believers, can you blame them?
2007-07-01, 8:43 PM #74
Originally posted by Lord Kuat:
I wonder what 'differences' there are in atheists-by-upbringing versus atheists who made the decisions on their own.


You mean people who were Christian-by-upbringing and then became atheists?
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2007-07-01, 8:45 PM #75
Originally posted by Koobie:
You mean people who were Christian-by-upbringing and then became atheists?


Well, not just Christians, but any religion. Hell, mono- or polytheistic, doesn't matter.
2007-07-01, 8:49 PM #76
Hey. I would belong to that group. Turned atheist, even after spending alot of my childhood in a private, Christian school.

I kept asking about dinosaurs. I even wrote a story called, "Adam and Even and their pet Dinosaur." They didn't like it.
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2007-07-01, 9:05 PM #77
Woah, most people including Christians I meet like dinosaurs.
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2007-07-01, 9:35 PM #78
There is a special subculture of christians who HATE dinosaurs. They should be ended.

But I agree with you on those fronts, Emon.

And Obi, your comment has GOT to be a joke. Please tell me it was a joke.
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2007-07-01, 10:23 PM #79
I'm pretty sure my parents think I don't believe in God. I just choose to not spew my beliefs all over everyone all of the time. Is there something so wrong about that?
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2007-07-02, 5:02 AM #80
Ooh, I'm really interested in what fundies have to say about dinosaurs. Let's hear it.
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