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I’ve known so many people who talked a big game about their lack of faith, but the minute their mom got cancer or they found themselves upside down in a car crash they found themselves praying. Can you really call yourself an atheist until you’ve looked Death in the eye and didn’t call out to the cosmos to save you?
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I got married in a church so I guess I'm just agnostic now op
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May 23, 2023 23:19
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Smugworth posted:I got married in a church so I guess I'm just agnostic now op
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May 23, 2023 23:22
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i dont know op i got nerfed with a disability and chronic pain that went undiagnosed and unmedicated for a year and despite everything i tried, clasping my little hands together and begging my apartment wall for help wasn't one of them
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May 23, 2023 23:24
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When you're in an emotional state you aren't thinking rationally. So it's what you believe when you are calm and collected and not when you are about to die that counts.
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May 23, 2023 23:30
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You're not a real atheist if you dont wear a fedora, its like that little jewish hat but for followers of athe
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May 23, 2023 23:31
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Schweinhund posted:When you're in an emotional state you aren't thinking rationally. So it's what you believe when you are calm and collected and not when you are about to die that counts.
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May 23, 2023 23:35
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God is a woman op
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May 23, 2023 23:46
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Titties is my communion
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May 23, 2023 23:47
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When my car flips over I pray to the flying spaghetti monster and when my mom got cancer I called out to the great juju under the mountain. Checkmate, lib.
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May 23, 2023 23:50
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Smugworth posted:I got married in a church so I guess I'm just agnostic now op Congrats!
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May 23, 2023 23:51
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What if something happens and out of the blue you find yourself praying to Allah, or Shiva or something? Like, "oh poo poo, not only am I religious I guess but I'm Islamic, well hey, didn't expect that." Personally I'm waiting for the MMA showdown between all gods so we can really figure out the one true religion (that is totally real and a thing okay) once and for all.
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May 23, 2023 23:52
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Covid owned my dad and I built some stairs into the side of a mountain about it.
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May 23, 2023 23:53
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There I was, doing moves to dodge God's attacks which would turn me Christian if any of them hit, luckily I had practiced the moves in creative mode for a long time before finally doing them for real. God didn't hit me once with any of his attacks, the Atheism achievement popped not longer after. Only a small amount of players actually have the achievement though a lot of people say they have it.
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May 24, 2023 00:02
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If you don't have a god just steal someone elses. Romans figured that poo poo out millenia ago. Your jesus? Hes a gay lady now.
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May 24, 2023 00:16
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I'm atheist, but I still take the Lord's name in vain. "God drat it!" after sliding my truck sideways off a highway at 65 mph and rolling twice. It wasn't a test, just black ice. I think I also said, "Jesus Christ motherfucker".
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May 24, 2023 00:43
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It's fine, op. I'm enlightened by my intelligence. Thanks though
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May 24, 2023 00:46
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ikanreed posted:It's fine, op. I'm enlightened by my intelligence. Thanks though I am not, yet I am euphoric
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May 24, 2023 00:47
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Internetjack posted:I'm atheist, but I still take the Lord's name in vain.
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May 24, 2023 00:50
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My religion is, I'm a loving idiot, and let me tell you my faith has never been stronger
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May 24, 2023 00:53
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the lamb of god nutted all over my face and now I'm presbyterian ????
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May 24, 2023 00:57
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Learning about Gold Star Atheism ITT.
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Prescott posted:I’ve known so many people who talked a big game about their lack of faith, but the minute their mom got cancer or they found themselves upside down in a car crash they found themselves praying. Can you really call yourself an atheist until you’ve looked Death in the eye and didn’t call out to the cosmos to save you? This is legit a good point. My parents have been in the hospital multiple times for potentially life threatening reasons but I never looked back once. Instead of god, I placed my faith in medical science and people who have spent at least a decade in school. Das Boo posted:Learning about Gold Star Atheism ITT. Literally, unironically, unholier than thou. 
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May 24, 2023 01:08
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Yes, I can.
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Can you really say that pixies don't exist if you haven't spent a weekend looking under flowers with a magnifying glass?
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May 24, 2023 01:09
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Prescott posted:I’ve known so many people who talked a big game about their lack of faith, but the minute their mom got cancer or they found themselves upside down in a car crash they found themselves praying. Can you really call yourself an atheist until you’ve looked Death in the eye and didn’t call out to the cosmos to save you? I've nearly killed myself doing stupid poo poo a few times and no god looked back at me, op
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May 24, 2023 01:09
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slingtv was buffering all night when i was trying to watch the hockey playoffs and you say my faith hasn't been tested you inconsiderate gently caress
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May 24, 2023 01:13
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Can you really say that pixies don't exist if you haven't spent a weekend looking under flowers with a magnifying glass?
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May 24, 2023 01:48
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UUuuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhh...
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May 24, 2023 01:48
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unless prayer unlocks my brain ill stick to moping
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It’s never occurred to me to pray to or even consider a divine being op. Don’t get me wrong I have a few questions about the nature of the universe but I believe everything is run by some basic underlying physical rules and not a sentient being. I guess that makes me an atheist by definition but gun to my head I’m probably more agnostic because I just don’t fuckin know op.
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May 24, 2023 02:16
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Calling out to the cosmos is not the same as praying. Even an atheist can acknowledge a higher power while blatantly disbelieving the absolute bullshit that is any conceived organized religion, which are just modern-day masks for being a piece of poo poo cultist/bigot anyway. Atheism is just a much as a rejection of the hate-culture of any religion on this planet, as it is a demand for additional evidence. I didn't forsake religion because it didn't add up, I forsook it because the people who practice it are all vile trash; it just happens to also not make any loving sense because it was created by idiotic inbred zealots hundreds of years ago.
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The events that have been definitive in turning some of my past friends to religion are some of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life. Not a single one of them was awe inspiring. Oh really, you didn't die in a car crash? Must be God and not the decades of automotive safety engineering. Yes, he chose to save you instead of impoverished children because you're so loving special.
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Jelly posted:The events that have been definitive in turning some of my past friends to religion are some of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life. Not a single one of them was awe inspiring. Oh really, you didn't die in a car crash? Must be God and not the decades of automotive safety engineering. Yes, he chose to save you instead of impoverished children because you're so loving special.
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May 24, 2023 02:38
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Prescott posted:When a mushroom ring springs up overnight on your daily walking route, and your first visceral reaction is how neat myceliums are. That's what I meant to say, toadstools! Pixies don't live under flowers they live under toadstools. Oh God, why did you make me so stupid?!
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May 24, 2023 02:45
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Prescott posted:Dont you find most of the people who share your political beliefs came to them through embarrassing and inchoate paths? So, no I don't feel that people who share the concept of compassion came to that belief through "inchoate" paths.
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Religion is just the result of pattern recognition going into overdrive OP. An evolutionary tool that got us out of the caves but causes us to see "meaning" (patterns) where there are likely none. Nothing happens for any reason, and everything happens for every reason. What you're really asking is if most humans would resort to pleading to the "pattern understander" (God? Allah? w/e) as a means of comfort during moments of stress and terror, and yes of course. Survival means grabbing at every life raft - even distant and likely nonexistent ones. The species who did not do this all died already.
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sure okay posted:Religion is just the result of pattern recognition going into overdrive OP. An evolutionary tool that got us out of the caves but causes us to see "meaning" (patterns) where there are likely none.
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There has never been any point of catastrophe or drama or whatever in my life where I put even the slightest bit of consideration into prayer, OP. The phrase "there are no atheists in foxholes" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard because I have been in life-threatening situations and never once have I thought about throwing out a hail mary "just in case" prayer, the idea of prayer as a response to anything is not even in my lexicon of thought.
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If God is all knowing he can always hear me therefore I am always praying
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