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Comment by Rob Larson on October 21, 2011 at 7:10pm

Hi CJ,

You raise a thought in my mind: do people only join religions because others talk them into it and use social pressures? And do people only get leave religions because they talk *themselves* out of it, *despite* the social pressures?

Well done you, in any case! Good luck.

Comment by Arthur Schnabel on October 21, 2011 at 3:00pm

 Hey kids! Just jumping in here. My name is Arthur, I was raised catholic, I have been an Atheist since I was about 10 or 12 years old, after seeing Madeline Murray O'Hair on the Mike Douglas Show KICKING THAT PRIESTS ASS! (WOW!!!!) Making macaroni crosses and believing that some(thing) had rose from the dead was no more! Mom & Dad...REALLY!!!??? 

Comment by Tommy on October 21, 2011 at 2:14pm

CJ Just realized where you are from. We are almost neighbors. I'm from Dalton.

Comment by Tommy on October 21, 2011 at 2:10pm

Glad to have you here CJ!

Comment by Troy Gorsline on October 21, 2011 at 12:38pm

Welcome, CJ!

Comment by C.J. Scoggins on October 21, 2011 at 12:36pm

Hello all, my name is C.J., I have recently become an Atheist and am looking for some new friends as the old ones now believe I am of the Devil..sad that people don't question such notions. Hope to hear from you all soon. Glad I came across this site.

Comment by Meddlesome on October 10, 2011 at 7:35am

All Sing along now (Courtesy of Monty Python):

 

All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom.
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid--
Who made the spikey urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen.

 

 

Comment by Hania Uscka-Wehlou on October 10, 2011 at 7:33am

LOL!

Comment by Joseph P on October 10, 2011 at 7:27am

Yeah, it's the cart-before-the-horse issue.  Nature wasn't created to be beautiful for us.  We evolved to find nature beautiful.  Theists just aren't capable of understanding that the latter is a much more powerful explanation.

 

"The universe was created just for us!  If the Earth was even slightly different, we couldn't live on it!"

Yeah, but probably something could live on it, and those lifeforms would probably be marveling at the way their planet was perfectly designed for them, as soon as they developed the self-awareness to wonder about it

... and the puke-green clouds and vomit-brown seas are so beautiful.

... and such beauty could only be created by God.

Comment by Steph S. on October 9, 2011 at 9:58pm

Chris - we'd love to hear about the documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in the Documentarians group.
http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/documentarians
Hope you can join us.

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