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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:27 | ||||||||||||||
For respect to Dean I will reply his post before I leave.
Don't worry about that,
That's why i said SOME in capital letters, there are SOME atheists doing evangelism as there are SOME Christian, denominations making evangelism, seems we agree in this point also.
Not all, but some do the problem is that when people refer to christianity they have a vision of two guys knocking at your door at 6 am to sell you salvation, some do this, and it's wrong, I'm the fiorst one who has saidfthis several times. Some atheists act in similar way.
But as some dispute his categorization, others believe in it and there lies the problem....Or the schism
Well Dean, I found several organizations with dfferent perspectives, some even not compatible, so it's reasonable to believe there's some sort of schism.
Again you are changing my words, i say there's a common dogma in atheism, and it's "There's no God" if you don't accept that dogma (And for that reason believe in some divinity), then you can't be an atheist by definition.
Then we agree, this are the beliefs or the interests of the Israelites that were added to the Old testament as if it was the word of God.
Of course we have dogmas, that's a characteristic of a religion.
I believe the jealous quotation came after, but doesn't matter we were talking about different quotes.
That's all for me in his thread
Iván Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - June 06 2009 at 22:30 |
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avalanchemaster
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:26 | ||||||||||||||
I use Jesus f**king Christ!
God-f**king-Dammit! not so weird that these supposed slurs/sins have become part of the vernacular! |
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Finnforest
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:22 | ||||||||||||||
I use that one too Mike, along with God-f******-Dammit, when I stub my toe or something.....you have to wonder where those combinations come from. |
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avalanchemaster
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:21 | ||||||||||||||
Well there is certainly NO SUCH THING as separation of church and state in the U.S., that is a myth if I ever heard one. The Right wing aligning itself with the religious right back in the fifties pretty much guaranteed that there would never be a separation, not to mention that the subject of Abortion is a platform utilized and twisted to pull votes (which tends to be a religious debate, even though it should be a civil debate/right). The fact that the U.S. dollar has "in god we trust" on it, denies separation of church and state.... I could go on, but you get the drift.... I don't mind debate. But it is one thing to argue and another to go into a thread knowing that most of the people will be opposed to you; (I don't go into the Chritianity thread for this very reason) It's one thing to "preach to the choir" and another to do missionary work in a foreign land that may or may not be full of godless cannibals! |
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KoS
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:20 | ||||||||||||||
Yes, but in many countries, religion is still in a special place. Religious institutions are generally not taxed. Religion is still used to get the votes and support of the people. Religious groups try to push the separation of church and state, just look at California and the Prop 8 fiasco. This thread wasn't about debating the existence of God. It was about caused a person to be an atheist and issues regarding atheism. |
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:18 | ||||||||||||||
That's probably the reason why I use it so much Jesus-f**king-christ is one that I often forget to censor |
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Dean
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:12 | ||||||||||||||
I actually avoid it and other forms of "religious swearing" as best I can. Not because I want to avoid offending religious people, or because I am still fearful of breaking the third commandment after being a christian for the first thirty+ years of my life, but simply because it has no meaning for me.
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Chris S
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:06 | ||||||||||||||
Praise Lord I say to thee, put yer money in my back pocket, I guarantee to set you free....
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Dean
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:04 | ||||||||||||||
Well, that's the last time I try and inject some tongue in cheek humour into this particular discussion
hahaha! not the most appropriate choice of expletive in this instance, and certainly not one that would compell me to visit those sites
Anyhow, I have read several sites like them and what they state is their opinion in issolation of all other athiests. They did not canvas all athiests to obtain a consensus of opinion and no athiest has to agree to those opinions in order to be an athiest.
You are presenting all these minority sites, and this one in particular as universally accepted by all atheists. Atheists who post on this site has clear stated otherwise. The fact that I ridicule those "commandments" is a reflection of my opinion of them, nothing more nothing less. Do you seriously believe that those ten statements are tenets that all atheists support? Or could support?
As to Strong/Weak/Possitive/Negative atheism, I dispute them, as do others:
Not true, you would like there to be perhaps, but there is no organisation to create schism within - they are not factions, but seperate and unconnected opinions that some people have decided to categorise for their own ends. They are not clubs that you can chose to join or sides that you can chose to take, they are only opinions that you can either agree or disagree with.
So if I have no belief system I am not allowed to call myself an atheist? Okay, I am not an atheist, I just don't have a religion or belief system that requires a supernatural figure head.
Love is a human characteristic, as is compassion, the use of "jealous" in the scriptures was not to denote "envy", but to show "love" - a god that loves his people so much that he would be jealous if they worshipped any gods as well as him. That is not the same as being envious of the other gods. As I said - it was written to dissuade the Israelites from turning to the polytheistic ways of their neighbours.
But that is beside the point, you have agreed with the point that began this particular branch of discussion, which was to demonstrate that christians know that other gods do not exist without having to prove belief that they do not exist: " of other Gopds that don't exist"
The phrase "I am a jealous god, worship no other god but me", which is the specific phrase that I stated that caused you to question the use of the word "jealous" I made no mention of Abraham in connection with that word and specifically said it was used during the exile of the Israelites in Egypt.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:59 | ||||||||||||||
That's why in any civilized country there is freedom to believe in what you want or not to believe.
That's why there are about 30,000 Christian denominations alone and countless religions.
That's why there's a separation between Church and state in most countries supported by most religions.
This is my last post in this thread because it seems that many don't like a debate.
Iván
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:56 | ||||||||||||||
You're not the only one; I agree with that. |
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avalanchemaster
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:52 | ||||||||||||||
yep. But it also serves the argument that any religion can be nuts. The majority of them can be based on good intentions, it is when these good intentions begin to poison the majority of secular life that they become absurd and out of control. There is no ONE universal truth that suits all people. That is the danger of these beliefs.... and the nature of beliefs is that they are personal (or at least should be), and yet people make money and ruin lives over these beliefs!!!! Hello? Am I the only one that sees the corruption here? (But you could argue that humans, by their very nature; especially in a post-modern capitalistic society, are corrupt.) |
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:43 | ||||||||||||||
That's nuts. |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:42 | ||||||||||||||
For God's sake, i had left this thread but was directly mentioned by Stonebeard yesterday, so i came back.
I'm not trying to convince anybody to follow a determined faith, I couldn't care less about that, but I do believe some atheists are doing acts similar to evangelism...That's all.
Iván
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:42 | ||||||||||||||
Oh, I never said you said it was universally; I was just wondering what you thought about it. I agree that some atheist people and organizations can be just as pushy as religious organizations; it really just comes down to an individual basis. In general though, I tend to find more pushy religious organizations than atheist ones. Not sure that means anything significant. |
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:40 | ||||||||||||||
Well, Jedi IS a religion to some people. In fact, according to the 2001 census Jedi is the 4th largest religion in England and Wales!
Honestly, it's getting pretty tense in here. It's why past debate now, just getting nasty. Edited by JJLehto - June 06 2009 at 21:44 |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:40 | ||||||||||||||
Never said it was, I said that some Attheists do a form of evangelism and that SOME atheist organizations have a structure similar to a religion.
Would be absurd to say it's a religion.
Iván
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avalanchemaster
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:39 | ||||||||||||||
fascists don't know their own contradictions, they bask in them though! |
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avalanchemaster
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:38 | ||||||||||||||
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:38 | ||||||||||||||
@ Ivan:
I don't know what that was supposed to mean... but you certainly are kicking down our door and holding crosses high.
Edited by King By-Tor - June 06 2009 at 21:41 |
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