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They're his parents, he's underage, where is your argument?

So when you're underage your religious beliefs are irrelevant? I fail to see how that holds true. Just because someone is underage doesn't give their parents the right to enforce their religious beliefs on them.

minors have no rights except the right to not be abused by adults.

Somehow I think Bguitar missed a period in his life called childhood.

How does attending a religious event that is different from your own beliefs mean your beliefs are irrelevant? You keep arguing a moot point. If your beliefs are so shallow that attendance to one different event is going to scar you for life, you have bigger issues to deal with. You might become a BigMac the next time you enter McDonald's.

I believe the word you're looking for is "barring". One would hope that, if this did border abuse, that the response would differ from the forum-goers.

I like how everyone is making a big deal out of something stupid.
I was in a bad mood, I whined, I got over it and went. Not a big deal.
At this point I don't care. I don't have to worry about it for another year and by then I probably won't care either. I didn't know what to expect going into it, so I expected the worst, and it wasn't that bad. Still don't like church/religion but I'm not horribly bothered by it. (there were many hot girls to look at)

Too bad they are good Christian girls who want their souls saved?

Doesn't mean they aren't hot and worth looking at.
I wouldn't date a Christian, simply because I would feel bad, like I was corrupting them or something. And parents would most likely dislike me.

It's really just TSM_Bguitar making a big deal of it, and everyone else saying he's wrong.

Atheism is not a religion. It has no beliefs.
The only reason I dislike church is that people expect me to believe in something that I can't. Very simple.

I think believing there is no god is a belief. :downs:

I'll be amused if this thread lasts 6 months and you are forced to defend your beliefs/actions everyday.

Man, I'm glad that my parents are as atheist as they come.

School, being Church of England, was a different matter, though.

...The whole thread started with a hissy fit...

Thank you for not reading my posts and responding with the same garbage I already responded to. There are few things I hate more than someone who is deliberately obtuse so please pardon me if I question your parentage as well as the merit of society allowing you to continue to live.

If you actually read what I stated, I was not "assuming" anything, nor did I ever make the implication that you or anybody else actually needs religion. You are continuing to bring up a series of points that nobody is actually making because you, for some reason, apparently enjoy intellectually masturbating yourself in public but you're wary of doing so while actually responding to the people who are making decent points about the subject.

Finally, if you were not willfully retarded and did read my posts as you claimed to, you'd realize that all I ever do is play the devil's advocate. You should know a lot about devil's advocacy, though, being a heathen and all.

No, agnosticism has no beliefs. Technically nihilism has no beliefs either, but that's far less literal and far more of a pun.
Atheism does have beliefs, such as the firm belief in the lack of the supernatural. If you are open-minded to the possibility that these things exist, or you simply do not know, or you do not care, you are not actually an atheist; you are an agnostic. Atheism is a religion, and the only reason anybody drops this retarded semantic argument is because they have their panties in a twist about being compared to those stupid intolerant churchy people who don't understand my pain and what it's like to be a teenager.

Actually, that's agnostic atheism.

Tell us, Jon, what's your pain and how its like being a lonely Blockbuster employee that spends most of his free time playing video games and posting on internet forums?

I don't mean that as an insult, but just coming from a neutral perspective here in this thread, you seem to be getting your nickers in quite a twist. Maybe it's not on purpose, but you seem to be imposing your self-proclaimed superiority on people more than usual as of late, and I don't think it's justified.

Fine, I'm agnostic. I don't think anything exists and I don't care enough to search for it. However, what I was always taught in sunday school is that agnostics are people who know god exists and refuse to follow him, and are comparable to satanists. I know thats wrong.. but thats just the way people around here are.

I don't work for Blockbuster, I'm not lonely, I barely play video games and you have almost 10,000 more posts than I do.

You're just whiny because I said your keyboard ideas were retarded.

See, that's the real crime here. I spent a month in Russia living at a monastery, and some of the really really religious Catholic girls were so hot. Oh man.

Now this is a story I would be very much interested in hearing.

Make a cartoon out of it Spe!

go away

lol, either lots of posts were deleted or everyone ignored this. Seems like Rob didn't read that Greenboy was an athiest.

So, let's review:

People suck, life sucks, people move on and keep sucking.

no greenboy is a weirdo hippy who wears sun dresses and picks daisies with his toes for the sun god

That takes talent!

It doesn't and that's not what I'm arguing. I never claimed that "going to church goes against atheism and is offensive!" only that the OP stated that he didn't want to go because of his atheism which is a completely different thing.



Well point out what I failed to respond to if it's annoying you so much that you've resorted to immature ad hominems.



I'm not going to resort to 13 year style old attacks over the internet like yourself, show some maturity, it's the internet for God's sake.



Actually, Atheism can also just mean that one does not believe in God, where as an agnostic just doesn't take a stance on the issue. Atheists doesn't say that "there can't be a God" only that they don't believe that God actually exists.

That was an amazing visual....... Hippies, lol

"God hates us all" ~ Slayer

On this forum.


Not really that so much as you being a complete jackass about it. I used to find your little ad hominems funny until I realized they all probably apply to you, too.

congratulations, you have figured it out. bravo.

hey guys you made my thread even stupider

how is that even possible? |:

You should have locked it after you told everyone that you went and it wasn't too bad.

I hate it when people lock threads. Once I've posted it, a mod locks it or nothing.

Hey guys I am pretty sure I saw Joncey ice skating today.

Which is obvious is hell. Most of the thread has been about how he could show a little respect for his parents beliefs.

And of course how his parents could have shown their respect for his.

But the OP wants us to stop talking about it apparently, so from this point on we aren't even talking about his specific situation anymore.

That is one arrogant response. Why would you even think about asking someone to do something they don't believe in? That would be like asking a Christian to deny God's existence for a few hours. You would never do that, would you? Why can't people just be tolerant?