"Atheist Life Vs. Religious Life" [video]

http://www.happyplace.com/3695/unintentionally-sexual-church-signs

Some funny church signs. Whether or not you're religious I think most could enjoy them.

I'm disappointed that this thread isn't at least 10 pages yet!

Honestly, I'm tired of these, so I'm just reading them now. I'm annoyed by both evangelicals and militant atheists. Both are pretty intolerable.

Honest question: Outside the internet, how many militant atheists have you run into?

I have to beat back the Jehovah's Witnesses/Missionaries weekly yet on the atheist/agnostic front, I hardly hear anyone giving me the "good news" IRL.

Maybe in my entire life, ive seen two stands setup to promote an atheistic lifestyle.

I'd like to know if maybe I am a special case or something.

Am I allowed to go on about my business or not? Or do I need to continue discussing the same endless, cylical BS with all of you? I've already been insulted on here for saying that I would like to have my children baptized, so after that I have not been as invested in these threads. EDIT: At this point I would rather just read.

Hey baby, if you want to meet up for drinks or coffee we can discuss NEW BS endlessly <3

*WINK WINK*

I think you and I would be on much better terms than some on here. Some people don't realize that their digging themselves into a hole when they openly gut the agnostics on this site too.

The week before I saw an article on how those militant atheists were trying to rewrite history to be more liberal.. Oh wait, nvm that was conservatives in Texas trying to rewrite history to be more Christian.

No, I think you are mostly right. Militant atheism seems to mostly exist on the internet. (Which doesn't make it any less annoying for people who enjoy being on the internet.)

I live in a place populated largely by Mormons, and they do come knocking on my door about once a week, whether or not I tell them I'm uninterested. It's gotten to the point where I look out my peephole, and if I don't recognize who's there, I simply don't answer the door and they leave eventually. That's probably how it should be anyways, no one should open the door for random strangers.

During the school year at the university, Mormons would walk around campus and if they saw someone sitting alone eating lunch or trying to do homework or study, they'd come sit next to them and try to convert them, welcome or not. I've even been cornered in the university bathroom on occasion by overzealous Mormon missionaries.

Lately every time I've gone to use the building's laundry facilities, there's been Jehovah's Witness propaganda pamphlets strewn across the machines. They are in the way rather inconveniently for people moving their laundry out on washers into dryers, for people cleaning lint traps, and for people who come in and try to set their detergent and baskets on top of the machines. So tenants just come in, pick up all the pamphlets, and toss them in the trash without reading. And the next time I try to go do my laundry again, there they are again, scattered across all the machines.

I really wish that theists could be theists all by themselves and atheists could be atheists all by themselves, and the two groups could live together in an agreement to disagree and get on with their lives. Unfortunately, I doubt that will happen because most religions by nature demand that their followers attempt to recruit others and most atheists by nature get really annoyed when theists try to convert them.

As for my own beliefs, I am wishy-washy. I really don't think there is a god, which makes me atheist. But I know that I don't have all the wisdom in the world and cannot know for sure, which also makes me agnostic. And I really don't think it's necessary to discuss in everyday life or care about or worry about in everyday life. It's not part of my personality, not a big part of my identity at all. There comes a point where I have to tell people that I simply don't care. For that reason, I prefer to just be called non-religious.

Oh... yeah uhhh religion. Yeah we can talk about that.

I'm sorry. Were you educated in this state? Sensationalism does not account for real life. Keep it up though. You're really winning us over on the internet.

I'm sorry. Were you educated in this state? Sensationalism does not account for real life. Keep it up though. You're really winning us over on the internet.

I've already been insulted on here for saying that I would like to have my children baptized.

As for my own beliefs, I am wishy-washy. I really don't think there is a god, which makes me atheist. But I know that I don't have all the wisdom in the world and cannot know for sure, which also makes me agnostic. And I really don't think it's necessary to discuss in everyday life or care about or worry about in everyday life. It's not part of my personality, not a big part of my identity at all. There comes a point where I have to tell people that I simply don't care. For that reason, I prefer to just be called non-religious.

I'm sorry. Were you educated in this state? Sensationalism does not account for real life. Keep it up though. You're really winning us over on the internet.

Honestly, not many. Maybe two. I have met more crazy evangelicals though.

Can I be sick of arguing on the internet when I know that the outcome will always be the same though? Am I allowed to go on about my business or not? Or do I need to continue discussing the same endless, cylical BS with all of you?

I've already been insulted on here for saying that I would like to have my children baptized, so after that I have not been as invested in these threads.

are you trying to say that people should be taught things that don't have facts behind them?

Agnosticism and Gnosticism are not exclusive from atheism and theism! Saying "I'm agnostic!" doesn't actually mean anything.

From what you've said, you are an agnostic atheist. An agnostic atheist can be summed up as "I don't think there is a deity but I can never be 100% sure."

A gnostic atheist says "I am sure there is no deity, no doubt in my mind."

A gnostic theist says "I am sure there is a deity, no doubt in my mind."

An agnostic theist says "I do think there is a deity but I can never be 100% sure."

Hope that clears up a little.

It was a comparison of the massive amount of active public atrocities and publicity that is done by theists versus atheists (i.e. almost none by atheists).

I christened my kids just to cover my *** in unlikely event that it's actually a prerequisite to get into a heaven I don't believe exists.

What about the ones that try to get Nativity scenes taken down from public places? Or the ones that try to remove "In God We Trust" from the currency? Or the ones that try to remove "One Nation under God" from the Pledge of Pledge of Allegiance?

There's plenty of nutjobs on both sides.

I'm an agnostic atheist too, Liela!

-High 5-

What about the ones that try to get Nativity scenes taken down from public places? Or the ones that try to remove "In God We Trust" from the currency? Or the ones that try to remove "One Nation under God" from the Pledge of Pledge of Allegiance?

There's plenty of nutjobs on both sides.