Registered: Jul 2000
Location: seattle-ish
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uh... atheists? agnostics? are you there?

Just wondering.... since theres been so much religious talk lately on the forum.
Im an atheist. My parents and grandparents are too. In fact most of my family is Atheist, agnostic, or practicing some form of Wicca. I think we have a total of 3 Christians in my family.
Id like to get a head count of the atheists and agnostics on the board.

Just for the records.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: A New England
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Atheist.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: salmon city
Posts: 1407

i pray to Posh spice.
but i practice fish-religioun.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Boston, MA, Center of the Universe
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I'm a born-again atheist. I was raised Catholic, but I got better. Hell I was even an altar boy until I went away to college. Though, for the last couple of years, I was only doing it because the priests were good guys (read: they didn't make me swallow) and they desperately needed altar boys. That, and it was easier than making it a whole big thing with my mother, while I was still living in her house

You know, I'm sick to death of all of this anti-atheist stuff going on. All of the good swears are Xian.

"For Christ's sake..."
"What the hell..."
"Jesus help me..."

I'm getting sick of "Jebus help me..." and "For shit's sake...". They make even less sense than the originals. We need to put together an atheist council and come up with good, atheist friendly terms and phrases.

I volunteer to be the High Priest of the Atheists' Council.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: London Town
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I am a militant believer, i guess i am agnostic, I was born a racial jew (no religious instruction) I was born again when i was 20 but that lasted 4 years.

Now i'm of the belief that i have belief but not much more than than.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Official field trip organizer
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Agnostic.

I'm the only one in my family....

Makes for interesting conversations at Christmas.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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I'm athiest. Not atheist, athiest.

And what the hell does "born again " mean, other than bullshit?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: seattle-ish
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lol @ cage.
"atheist friendly"
i liek that.
Anyways, Maybe youd be interested in this. Its a webring I belong to. I made the banner, so Im gonna use it for the link. Click it to get to the page.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Essex, England
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My family are Church of England Christians and I was brought up as such.
I am now very much an atheist and hve been since the age of 13-14.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Bangor, ME
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i believe all religions are linked, and that each religion is just an interpretation of the culture and their is only the "one" god

i simply call them the "one"

i used to be an atheist tho

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: London Town
Posts: 240

quote:

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Originally posted by SkapeGoat:


And what the hell does "born again " mean, other than bullshit?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Erehwon
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i am not athiest, or agnostic.
My opinion on god is one of mutuality.
Whe way i figure, if I was god, i wouldn't want to be bothered all bay by prayers and stuff, and i dont particularly want god to interfere with my life.
I'll leave him alone if he leaves me alone.
And if he turns out not to exist, i wont feel a moron for wasting my time, and if he does turn out to exist - i hope he leaves me alone.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: London Town
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quote:

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Originally posted by AlcoholSoopaFiend:
i believe all religions are linked, and that each religion is just an interpretation of the culture and their is only the "one" god

i simply call them the "one"

i used to be an atheist tho

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 1353

I believe in the all mighty bomb, and sometimes santa claus.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: baton rouge, la
Posts: 4101

yo

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: NJ
Posts: 2300

i fall somehwere into that "freethinker" category.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: atlanta
Posts: 6346

Im agnostic.


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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Delaware
Posts: 5704

I'm a fatalist. It's stamped on my forehead when and how I'm going to die and nothing and no one can change it.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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quote:

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Originally posted by Avondale:
Im agnostic.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Nanaimo, BC
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I suppose if you think about belief in a deistic context, then I'm an atheist. But as far as I'm concerned, God never really entered the picture. I've never seen any evidence to the contrary, and I don't like to adopt too many unsubstantiated ideas (note: not beliefs) along the way; I have too many of them about unimportant things to make assumptions with something so vitally important to my life as my understanding of the universe and human nature.

I like to think. I like logic. I like reason.
I like to supplement them with books and mind-altering substances.
Between these and titties, this is as close to deity worship as I'm getting. Works for me.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: canadian rockies
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I AM.

That is sufficient.

selah.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Ivory Tower, USA
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I've been attending Unitarian services since about 1992. However, I was raised Catholic. Interestingly enough, my Mom is Catholic; Dad is Jewish. They've been happily married for 30 years.

Are there any other UUs out there?

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Rationalist and therefore Agnostic

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Dammit. The Stopper stole my joke and then promptly slaughtered it.

Grrrrrr.

I was raised Catholic, which has really fucked me up religously speaking. I suppose I am closer to an agnostic than anything else, but I have very deep seated ideas that are very hard to shake. I also came very close to converting to Judaism when I was about 16.

I dunno. I suppose, when it comes right down to it, I go more along the lines of what aminal was saying. Deeply rooted in me from my upbringing is the idea that SOMETHING is out there. I am one of those sorts that read the bible a few times and take it completely figurativly, a collection of fables and whatnot, that, while fiction on the one hand, underline greater truths about the nature of man, the social animal, civilization, and all that jazz.

Kinda like Chicken Soup for the Soul.

But I do still have that feeling I can't shake that there is some sort of intelligent force guiding everything. Intellectually, I am pure agnostic. But in my soul, I suppose I am more of a Catholic tainted agnostic.

As it stands, my view is that whatever is out there is completly out of my reach and incomprehnsible, and thus any attempts by me to puzzle it all out would be an exercise in sheer futility. How can one comprehend The Creator, if there is one? Why would one be a better person for attempting such a feat as nailing down the unknowable? To me it smacks of Atlas. So I tend to not bother with it.

A person should live a good life, but a good person, not for fear of eternal punishment of salvation, but because that is what is in their hearts.

Or something like that anyway.

But, like I said, I am pretty much an agonostic when you get right down to it.

And if there ever is a judgement day, and all those Christians are right, expect me to be on the frontlines, having a flame war with Saint Peter of biblical proportions.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: industrialand
Posts: 658

Atheist.

almost my whole family (parents, aunts, uncles) are Atheist, too.. except my dad's mother, and my step-grampa (her husband).

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