101 Atheist Quotes

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not in my case. my father is a Methodist, my mother was a non practicing Catholic. they certainly didn'tteach me there is no god. i remember when i was probably about 4-5 yrs old, my mother let a neighbor take me and my sis to sunday school at their church a couple times. i remeber it being fun...making junk outta egg cartons & popsicle sticks...but i don't recall any of the teachings that i may have been subjected to. after a few times going, i wasn't really interested anymore, so my mother simply told me i didn't have to go if i didn't want to, and i didn't. my sunday morinings growing up were spent fishing, boating and helping dad with firewood at our cabin along the river. i have always refered to our woods as my "church".

i guess my point is that even though my parents had practiced, they did not pressure me to "join" a religion...they left that decision to me. i have never heard anything bad about religion from either of my parents. there was a copy of the Bible on our mantle for as long as i can remeber. i did not learn from them that there is not a god...i just wasn't interested in church, and was not forced to be. later on in life i came to the conclusion that i do not believe in any popular faith, not because someone told me they were bad, but because none of them made much sense to me. through the years, i have come to live by my own set of social rules...most of which can be summed up by a co-worker of mine's favorite saying..."Right's right, and wrong's wrong." i have never felt the need to have someone lay out a set of rules for me to follow in my social behavior. now, i'm no angel...but i'm a pretty standup dude. i like to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do, not because someone told me i should do it that way.

i do realize that there are some parents who do actually "teach" atheism...but i'm gonna say that the majority of non-believers just figure it out on their own...like i did.

on a side note...i don't remember too many of my friends that had to attend church growing up being very happy about it, but they were "trained" that it was something they had to do.

 

Damn, we haven't got you to believe yet. I'll send over the two guys in black suits and bikes over to your house today. lol

I agree that no one should try to force a religion onto someone. But I think people that always say something like, "Hey, I believe in God, you should also." Are people that are a lot happier with religion, and they believe it will also be better for that person, and they want to help and make a difference.

I see nothing wrong with that, you can always say no.

 

actually its 97.66 repeating of course.

got to love wiki. but as said above you can change any and all on that site.
but you cant put your friends name in there and say he can suck down a gogart tube in 7 sec, in one breath while under water getting felt up by a manatee. cuz they will delete it-i have tried.


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Im not following you. So would the child literaly be taught that there is no GOD? Or is that something you just kinda figure out on your own by not being around said religion?

Kinda like someone said earlier, light is made up of "X,Y,Z" but darkenss is just the "absense of light".
So the child is being taught to NOT believe?

I'm not bashing or anything, just trying to understand your point of view[/quote]


Sorry, if I didn't address it well enough the first time. What I meant was and has been said by several is if your in a home where religion is a belief you would tend to teach your children about this value. When issues come up on say TV, your kids hear your general discussion. When your kids ask questions about religion you are going to answer with your belief.
In a house without religion the parents (likely) would answer that there is no GOD and begin the process of educating through their personal beliefs.

Hope this answered. Ken

 

I am of no religion, my wife is catholic and my son goes to catholic school, he is 5, there will be a day that he asks me, "why don't you pray at the dinner table?" I will answer him honestly, but tell him that he does not need to believe me or his mom or his teachers or his priest, but to make up his own mind of what he believes. I will not force feed him my beliefs like many other parents do. Religion is very personel and should not be brain washed into others.

 

A very civil conversation so far...

Ive seen a couple documentals on tv about how atheists in the USA have organized, trying to take the "in god we trust" out from the currency, isnt that organization kind of a religion?? The "i don't believe in god" I find sometimes that it gets very confusing, some of them try to prove the non-existence of God, how can you try to prove there is no god when you dont believe in him?? if there is no god, why bother???

What happens when the child comes from school and says: "Dad my friends at school go to this place called church and they go and praise God" why don't we do the same??

what would the dad answer?? would he tell him the subject is banned on the house, or would he tell him not to believe what they say about god or Jesus??

I think at that point there would be some sort of teaching that there is no God....

 

Thanks, I get what your saying now.

 

That's a way of doing it, but Ive seen people doing the opposite...

I suppose it depends on the family....

 

I agree, most parents say, if I'm catholic, jewish, etc, you the hell better be as well.

 

Both my parents are Christians, they took me to church on my early years, I guess i was christian because of them, but after I decided to baptize at age 12 I think that's when I became a real christian... after all it was my own choice, I cant say my parents forced me into something I didn't wanted...

 

The point was that you learn at first by imitation. Watching, learning, and mimicking what they do. The second portion of that was saying as you grow and are able to interpret and comprehend things on your own. At this point you make your own judgments.
In your case you grew up in a Christian home and as you developed, so did your view. Then you made your own decision.

 

Here's my two cents. Atheists believe there is no God. That belief is faith based, because it is also a belief. They belief that the universe in all its beauty and glory happened by chance.

Note the second law of thermodynamics states that if things are left alone, they will reach a state of maximum entropy. This scientific law states that if no work or effort is applied to any system, it will reach a state of maximum disorder.

Funny how on one hand, we have a scientific law which observes that things turn into a mess unless there is some work done to it, yet on the other hand, scientists says this orderly universe came about by pure chance.

Atheists believe there was a Big Bang. Before that, there was nothing. After the Big Bang, the universe came to being.

Read Genesis. In the beginning, there was nothing, just a big void. Then God said, "Let there be..." Then the universe came to be. The Big Bang theory (let me emphesize that it is a theory) does not disprove creation, but supports it.

 

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Right. That goes back to interpretation and changes. Who says a day for heaven is 24 hours. So creationism is possible, but in the same respect, so is evolution. But that's a whole different arguement

 

But see, creation is a story based on nothing but word of mouth passed down from person to person and so on. A theory has some degree of fact and science. I don't see how the big bang theory supports creation.