... I think they would have burned all the books on the spot. I do not believe in God or any deity, but I do believe in happiness and peace, and I plan to achieve it - without resorting to The Bible. I will ...
... is the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus who best summarizes the gist of my own disbelief: Is God will ing to prevent evil but unable? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but unwill ing? Then he is ...
... a lot of social needs through good-will projects and day-to-day socializing. It has been said that: "If religion was to be dropped from our societies that our governments would go broke trying to meet ...
... and it is an ignorance I sincerely hope will be relegated to the dustbin of history. I am a full-time student who enjoys politics, reading, video games, and witticism. ...
... that were done in it's name. That never happened because no god exists. Or, if it does, then it's really malevolent. Case dismissed. Now I don't know if I can ever believe, no matter what will happen to ...
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Phil, Watford
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... face, must wear a turban, must have a beard, the list is endless and is again designed to take away free will . I pride myself on essentially being a good person, with a mind of my own and no need ...
... for all the millions of people in the Middle East?" "He will son, he will ." "But Dad, imagine how many people have lived their whole lives over there and died believing in Islam! What makes you special?" ...
... his left hand never formed, it looks like a small dolphin flipper. Supposedly we have "Free Will " - but I assure you, my newphew didn't choose to be born with a flipper hand, and if he'd had a choice, ...
... told me that was impossible--that the battle's end had already been decided and that good would triumph. I saw the logical flaw right away and asked, "Then why bother fighting if we know already God will ...
... solid evidence for one, so it seems pointless to pin hope on it. “Probably” after we it will be as it was before birth, i.e. like a dreamless sleep. If it turns out there is some sort of god, it does ...
... & Omega and he knew me before I was born, then how can that be free choice? If I give you a choice between A and B, where the outcome of choosing B is hideous torture but I already know you will choose ...
... them all to be lacking in the one thing I needed them to have: plausibility. At every turn, they present something so patently ridiculous that I can no longer will ingly suspend my disbelief (call it an ...
... Him enough, who knows.... after all we are talking about a deity that will throw you into hell for eternity if you don't choose to love Him back, right? But clearly I was wrong about everything, because ...
... came tumbling down. I began to realize that I would not be will ing to spend an eternity worshiping a deity who had sacrificed his own son. We are not children of a capricious bully deity who wrote ten ...
... not exist, it is similarly related to the realm of fantasy and multiple religions. If I was will ing to grant that a god exists (a possibility that I am as will ing to grant as I am for anything from yet ...
I was never thoroughly indoctrinated into church life or religious thinking. Though both my parents were born and raised Catholic, I would not call them practicing Catholics. When I was a child my mother ...
... young will ing women, so why did he put his own hand out of the question? Not that masturbation is the key reason behind the lack of religion in my life, but just felt that its a subject that isn't really ...
... teaching science, math, social sciences & history carefully cleansed of religion. Teach independent, constructive thought. Will the child invent supernatural explanations, god? Then introduce to the maturing ...
... to this day. The very moment that I was aware, the choice was obvious. There weren’t many things that my Father and I would agree on over the years, but this is one we will always have. Thank you Dad. ...
I don't believe in gods because it just does not make sense. It never has and it never will . It’s that simple. I’ve always believed that and I always will . ...
