Atheist Club. Begin.
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It depends on the type of atheist, too. Atheists who go around talking down religion are the exception, not the norm. Most atheists would just as soon live and let live. That would be my preference. I don't care if people want to believe in God or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever, but I do care if you try to shape public policy to be consistent with the values of your religion.
I'm an atheist and all I want is to be left alone.
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"Ditto!" [/Taggart]
Indeed. I'm reminded of Shepard Book's last words from Serenity: I don't care what you believe. Just believe it.
Yes, that too. I am quite happy being an atheist and i don't like it when another person of any religion, tries to convert me. I did 18 years of the Catholic Church; I'm good.
If you really want to belong to an "atheist club" try the Freethought and Rationalism Discussion Board (formerly known as the Internet Infidels). Though there are plenty of religious people and religious discussion on the board they do have a Secular Lifestyle forum for the sort of discussions you are wishing for. My name at FRDB is Kuu. I don't post that much, I mainly lurk.
Yeah, but not very often. I have only posted on FRDB 591 times since July 2002, whereas I have posted 23,242 times on Trekbbs - or actually more than that because I lost 2000 posts in the Great Purge and there was a time when posts in Misc and TNZ didn't count towards post counts.
Yay! A club! We'll have secret handshakes and secret decoder rings and a newsletter -- reads thread -- oh deity, it's one of those threads 
Oh well.
I identify the most with that big Bill Maher bit several pages back. I not only don't practice any religion, I have an active dislike for it.
If you want an origin story, you can blame my parents for taking me to church when visiting relatives. At home we never went, we never did any churchy like things in the home (my dad would only ever say grace at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners).
But when we visited my dad's family, we went to a backwoods Church of God church (preached by his dad and later brother, no less). No TV, no popular music or books, women wore dresses and kept their hair long, men kept their hair short and couldn't wear short sleeves or neckties. This really rubbed me wrong about a thousand ways at once, but I just kinda flowed with it.
And when we visited my mom's parents, we would go to their country clubbish Church of Christ, where the men were in suits and used a pitch pipe before each song and there was a sermon every Sunday, but heck if I ever remembered it because it just seemed like another rehearsed speech.
So take these two disparate practices, and mix them with a kid that loved dinosaurs and astronomy and worshipped Mr. Spock and eventually you get me. The example I use for some of my religious friends/family on Facebook goes like this: I looked at religion as a tapestry hanging on a wall. Overtime I began to pick at the loose threads. I kept pulling and pulling and at some point, big holes started to appear, then finally the whole thing fell apart and I was left staring at the bare wall behind it. And in some places there were exposed studs and wiring. And that, I could take comfort in. I didn't have to worry about the capricious whims of somebody that might or might not care that I was eating bacon on a Friday while wearing a hat indoors with the TV on and wearing really short shorts that show off my pasty, hairy legs.
So while my initial reaction was directed at organized religion, it eventually got to where I didn't see the need for any of it. It was surprisingly refreshing to just say it. I am an atheist. I don't believe in g/God/s.
More later, gotta run.
Oh well.
I identify the most with that big Bill Maher bit several pages back. I not only don't practice any religion, I have an active dislike for it.
If you want an origin story, you can blame my parents for taking me to church when visiting relatives. At home we never went, we never did any churchy like things in the home (my dad would only ever say grace at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners).
But when we visited my dad's family, we went to a backwoods Church of God church (preached by his dad and later brother, no less). No TV, no popular music or books, women wore dresses and kept their hair long, men kept their hair short and couldn't wear short sleeves or neckties. This really rubbed me wrong about a thousand ways at once, but I just kinda flowed with it.
And when we visited my mom's parents, we would go to their country clubbish Church of Christ, where the men were in suits and used a pitch pipe before each song and there was a sermon every Sunday, but heck if I ever remembered it because it just seemed like another rehearsed speech.
So take these two disparate practices, and mix them with a kid that loved dinosaurs and astronomy and worshipped Mr. Spock and eventually you get me. The example I use for some of my religious friends/family on Facebook goes like this: I looked at religion as a tapestry hanging on a wall. Overtime I began to pick at the loose threads. I kept pulling and pulling and at some point, big holes started to appear, then finally the whole thing fell apart and I was left staring at the bare wall behind it. And in some places there were exposed studs and wiring. And that, I could take comfort in. I didn't have to worry about the capricious whims of somebody that might or might not care that I was eating bacon on a Friday while wearing a hat indoors with the TV on and wearing really short shorts that show off my pasty, hairy legs.
So while my initial reaction was directed at organized religion, it eventually got to where I didn't see the need for any of it. It was surprisingly refreshing to just say it. I am an atheist. I don't believe in g/God/s.
More later, gotta run.
Eh, I enjoy ripping on religious people when they do or say something particularly egregiously stupid, but most of them are okay in my book. A core tenet of my atheism is that if somebody believes in the invisible sky monster I shouldn't, by definition, give a fuck about it. None of it matters.
But like Robert Maxwell pointed out, if somebody's trying to get their batshittery codified into law, then it's time to speak up. Otherwise, live and let live, man.
But like Robert Maxwell pointed out, if somebody's trying to get their batshittery codified into law, then it's time to speak up. Otherwise, live and let live, man.
He's a god! Kill him! Defy him! Throw your shoes at hiiiiim!!!
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