What were you before you became and atheist?

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:04 pm

Exi5tentialist wrote:
Animavore wrote:No.
I agree. In the final analysis, no-one can really claim to be an atheist. Or at least no-one I've ever come across. Most people claiming to be atheists still retain profound prejudices based on the predominant religion of their parental culture. Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dennett are the prime example of this at one extreme; I haven't yet found the other... Sartre is a long way away from those four, though, if only because he remembers his own theistic roots, something most people are all too keen to forget.

Never been anything but an atheist. Live with it.

Post by **Audley Strange** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:09 pm

I think one has to differentiate the personal belief in a supernatural creator entity as causation and the human instituations of religion which use the claim of such as a control mechanism to establish and define a cullture. I have no belief in Gods, I am well aware those who have, or have at least used others belief in it are the foundations of our societies. However the latter has little to do with the former and thus I am an atheist.

Post by **Tero** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:38 pm

I was a Lutheran to 16. Then Jesus started to die, he was later cremated by me.

Post by **Svartalf** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:42 pm

Exi5tentialist wrote:
PordFrefect wrote:Bacon.
Antisemitic gibes will get you nowhere.

Jewz gave us chretinity, and for that alone they deserve all the evil we can pour down on them.

Post by **Eriku** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:42 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Eriku wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Eriku wrote:
Ronja wrote:Eriku! Where have you been? Good to see you for a change.
Busy with work and just generally not in a forumy vein the past few months ;P

Glad someone's noticed that I've been gone

*pine*
No need to pine, I'm back now!
Well stay for awhile or I'll be cross!

I mean... err...

YAY!

Considering your present incarnation I wouldn't dream of it *shiftily glances at avatar*

Incidentally, I've never "gotten" the sexual aspect of vampires. As such, I've only got a semi for your avatar at present ;P

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:43 pm

I'm always at a disadvantage when arguing with believers, because I don't know "where they're coming from". The idea of a Big Brother in the Sky just never computed.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:45 pm

Eriku wrote:Incidentally, I've never "gotten" the sexual aspect of vampires. As such, I've only got a semi for your avatar at present ;P

The ecstasy of oral sublimation of the sex urge via an evil agency, sin personified, is the key you're looking for.

Post by **Bella Fortuna** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:45 pm

Eriku wrote:Considering your present incarnation I wouldn't dream of it *shiftily glances at avatar*

Incidentally, I've never "gotten" the sexual aspect of vampires. As such, I've only got a semi for your avatar at present ;P

Personally they're not my thing either, but one must fit in at Halloween!

<--- sans fangs

Post by **Tero** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:46 pm

Jeez Eriku, its a metaphor. You cant have as much teen sex on tv as teen vampires.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:47 pm

Tero wrote:Jeez Eriku, its a metaphor. You cant have as much teen sex on tv as teen vampires.

Stoker played it up, see one of Charlou's recent avatars.

Post by **Exi5tentialist** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:58 pm

Svartalf wrote:Jewz gave us chretinity, and for that alone they deserve all the evil we can pour down on them.

Steady on. I only meant bacon. Let's hold back on the rest of evil for the time being shall we?

Post by **Svartalf** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:01 pm

Holy is the Bacon, Those Heathens that refuse it shall be slaughtered as Gideon slaughtered the Canaanites.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:02 pm

Svartalf wrote:Holy is the Bacon, Those Heathens that refuse it shall be slaughtered as Gideon slaughtered the Canaanites.

And he did that with a BLT in one hand.

Post by **tattuchu** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:03 pm

When I was very young I went to a Catholic church. When I was still young, but not quite as young, I went to a Protestant church. However, I don't recall a time at which I ever believed in a god or any other of the religious fables. So I'd say I've always been an atheist, though didn't always know the word for it.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:05 pm

tattuchu wrote:When I was very young I went to a Catholic church. When I was still young, but not quite as young, I went to a Protestant church. However, I don't recall a time at which I ever believed in a god or any other of the religious fables. So I'd say I've always been an atheist, though didn't always know the word for it.

I used to say that I wasn't religious enough to call myself an atheist. Then I decided what the fuck, it's a handy word.

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