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Marks said:
Sounds like an interesting fact you just learned today, and needed a way to make a thread about it :)

I agree, Atheists can be annoying as fuck, and no...there wouldn't be world peace without religion (the stupidest thing Atheists say)...but wasn't really worth a thread.


As far as stupid things to say, better say that than many, many stupid things theists say.



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I dont really care where a word comes from to be perfectly honest. If when i say goodbye people know they are leaving or i am then i am fine with that.

With that been said i dont really say good bye that often. I usually say ciao, arrivederci, tatty bye, toodles, cya, bumbawayatuna or however it would be spelled. Yes as you can tell i just love using random words for anything.



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Where I live plenty of christians use almohadas (pillows in spanish) and that is a word of muslim origin, so I guess nobody cares about this?



Being an atheist doesn't have to do with hating religion, religion even barely has to do with god other then faith.

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ListerOfSmeg said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Why do religious people celebrate the Winter solstice (xmas)? Or why are they off on Sundays?

The meaning of things change. I know muslim people who celebrate Christmas coz it's sort of a national holiday now. I celebrate it too (well, I gather with my family) and I certainly ain't a Christian. No shame in that. Yeah, we also say "Oh, my God" in English, etc.

Pretty silly OP.



Christmas is done in winter in an attempt to help the transition for nonChristians of the time.

Many Christian holidays have changed over the years to help people of other religions just like it was with Christmas.

I wonder if you complain on New Years that it isnt actually the "New year" or run around throwing it in peoples faces like it matters that a year is not exactly 365 days?

As for the Sabath I think that was made pretty clear in Genesis.Also many are not off on Sundays as they would be fired. Seems only certain religions are free to express their religous freedoms

You didn't get my point at all. I didn't complain about anything, dude. On the contrary, all those things are perfectly fine with me. I was saying that the OP complaining about the "goodbye" thing is stupid and pointed out some other examples of stupid things you could complain about that make no sense.

Please read the OP and read my post carefully again.

No I did read it but someone who comes off as high and mighty being the "troll whisperer" should have just explained it in a better fashion. Sorry I wasnt trying to be an douchebag I just wanted you to see things from a different perspective. I agree with you, just not your approach.

All I did was take your post style and turn it around on you. As you see it solved nothing. Granted I completely agree with most here that it is something that has changed its meaning. However most of you are doing just what Christians did a thousand or more years ago. Taking someone elses religous holidays and turning them into your own.

Oh, yeah, I agree. And I'm totally OK with that. ;)



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Player2 said:

Where I live plenty of christians use almohadas (pillows in spanish) and that is a word of muslim origin, so I guess nobody cares about this?


Mokhada* is an arabic word not muslim, it means pillow yeah, literally means "the thing you rest your cheeks on" 

I think the closest thing to it is "Almoqadas**" , meaning the blessed one

*the KH in the first are spelled the same way the germans spell the "ch", in acht (eight). 

** the Q in that other word is spelled like a normal q but a bit heavier than K, C and Q



PullusPardus said:

As you may not know, the world "Goodbye" is an abbreviation of "God be with ye" so now that you know that, why do atheists say it? Shouldn't it be "FUKRELIGIONGODDOESNTEXISTIMAGOGETMADONLINEANDACTANDMAKEANDTELLEVERYONEHOWEDGYIAMONLINEBECAUSE-

-THAYSHITISDANGERINREALLIFE"

Someone has lied to you.

While the original usage of the word did come from 'God be with you', it very quickly transitioned into an all encompassing valediction based on something else we are very familiar to replace the chronological arguments: good morning, good day and good evening.

So...good bye.

 



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Aielyn said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
True Hitler and Stalen were both atheists.

Oh and Atheism is a religion. A belief in nothing is still a belief

Hitler wasn't an atheist. The best description of him would be "pseudo-pagan". He believed in the Christian god, but he also believed in other supernatural powers. He was never an atheist - indeed, he associated atheism with communism, which was a philosophy that was the polar opposite of what he believed in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler#Hitler_and_atheism

As for atheism being a religion, you seem to confuse the phrase "atheism" with what we often call "Strong Atheism". Most atheists would describe their view as "Lacking a belief in a deity". That is, we are atheists for the lack of a reason to believe. "Strong atheists", who I often think of as "Dogmatic atheists" (which contrasts with "Agnostic atheists" and "Scientific atheists", the former of which believe you can't know if there's a deity and so should not operate as though there is one, and the latter of which simply wants evidence before belief), have a firm belief that there is no deity. There is a big difference between absence of belief in a deity and believing in the absence of a deity.

Stalin was a Strong Atheist. So is Richard Dawkins. Please don't confuse such people with the typical atheist, just as I would not associate typical American Christians with the Westboro Baptist Church.


I like this explaination about the different kinds of atheists.  Have to use it in the future.  I think the best example of a dogmatic atheist would be Hitchens since he didn't just not believe in a god because there wasn't evidence, he actively hated the very concept of a god and found it abhorent on a moral level.  



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xenogears1234 said:
PullusPardus said:

As you may not know, the world "Goodbye" is an abbreviation of "God be with ye" so now that you know that, why do atheists say it? Shouldn't it be "FUKRELIGIONGODDOESNTEXISTIMAGOGETMADONLINEANDACTANDMAKEANDTELLEVERYONEHOWEDGYIAMONLINEBECAUSETHAYSHITISDANGERINREALLIFE"


Most athiests including myself come from religious backgrounds so its natural to use religious terminology since its ingrained from such an early age just like i say bless you when someone sneezes its more force of habit than anything conscious.

You should say "You are sooo good-looking!" It makes people feel good.



One of the many examples of Christianity and religion leaving a footprint in our culture, and a good thing it is too in most cases.