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This may have been posted somewhere on the board or in a podcast but I haven't come across it yet. It seems to me, the worst part of religion is that people will completely waste their lives doing stuff they hate doing under the illusion that they will get into some eternal fantasy land. By the time...
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Hello. This is my first post. I'm an atheist. I have recently realized my overuse of the phrase "Thank god", and "God fucking damnit", "oh my God", etc. I want to stop, but it's a part of our culture, a part of our society. No phrase brings us as much relief as does...
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I've been thinking about the idea of God(s) and/or creator a lot recently. This is were I stand at the moment. I exist, matter exists and both myself and other matter conform to the laws of motion. Here's are the definitions of the laws of motion that I will be using (brought to you by Wikipedia...
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When I was a Christian, I got caught up in presuppositionalism, and it led me off course in my life. It is why I first wanted to pursue philosophy. However, I began to realize there was something not quite right about it and I am now writing a thorough refutation of it. It's practically already written...
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I don't have any experience but I hope this helps. http://www.ehow.com/how_2090411_plan-atheist-wedding.html
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So, in this forum I'm SURE that this has been discussed more than once. But I've been looking through it (not extensively) and I've decided that I don't feel like searching through all the threads in order to find where my question is answered. I'd like to know WHAT is Stefan's...
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hey Stefan, i was talking to my dad about 20 minutes ago, about atheism and the existence of god and effect of religion and all the jucy philosophy that we all enjoy, and i was sorta telling him about all the death and bullshit that religion has pulled off over the past thousands of years and even tho...
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Could it be possible to get fundings from the state to a church for the flying spagethi monster? Or would such attempts maybe result in churches all over america being without funding, for the sake of "fairness"? Not so much a serious topic I guess. Just loose pondering :)
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MILES: Atheism has failed, it predates Darwin and Dawkins and yet it has never caught on. Why? Because at it's heart is the belief in ... nothing. You may not accept "God dun it" as an answer, but that is infinately more interesting and plausible than "Nothing dun it". That is...