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setsunatenshi on 26 August 2011
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Player1x3 said:
Porcupine_I said:
Galaki said:
Porcupine_I said:
These aren't real Atheist! Real Atheists don't commit crime!

Yeah. Real Atheists don't flip flop and convert when they are in trouble.

Of course not! For a real Atheist there is nothing to convert to!


Actually, you would be suprised. People who become atheists do so because they got picked on in high school, for an example. Rummage through an atheist's emotional baggage and you will find a pile of leftover teenage angst, a few cases of repressed rage at mommy and daddy, and an overpowering urge to feel superior wrapped around a stupendous amount of self-loathing.Its pretty easy to be an atheist when you are in your teens and 20's. Mostly because of the reasons I  mentioned and because they want to rebel against the community, society or their family so they become the opposite of what they are.But I knnow quite the few cases when a person, that had close-death experience or one of their relatives did, begins to beleive in God, higher power and afterlife. so, really atheism is a pretty empty and shallow belief. I would like to see a person 5 minutes away from death and say ''there is no afterlife''.

Religious people on the other hand are ready to go trough everything for their belief and stick to it till death. Jews and Christians are best example of this.


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They simply look at the universe, at all the evidence put forth on behalf of all religious claims and simply conclude there is no logic reason to suspect a god exists.

 

There are thousands of religions that you chose not to believe. An atheist will just dismiss your religious claims based on the same grounds you dismiss everyone else's religious claims. Judging from that cross in your sig, I'm willing to bet you give no 2nd thought in dismissing the claim that Zeus, Odin, Thor or Allah are the true gods and they created the world, right? In the same way an atheist will look at your claims about YHWH and put it in the same category as those other gods.

And I'll tell you something else, the fastest way for a religious person to start doubting their own beliefs is traveling and meeting people in other cultures who share the same faith in totally different religions with completely opposite claims to the one this person always held. 

That's one of the reason why conscient atheists tend to be more educated and better off in life on average than the general believers. (same reason why the overwhelming percentage of scientists are atheists as well)