I usually don't care if people use God's name wrongly by just a bit, but using it a lot offends me. An occasional "GOD DAMN" comes out of my mouth, but if people use his name wrongly, I do get angry as well.
I'm an Atheist.
I usually don't care if people use God's name wrongly by just a bit, but using it a lot offends me. An occasional "GOD DAMN" comes out of my mouth, but if people use his name wrongly, I do get angry as well.
^ ... I will say nothing.
Well, Shrukan, everybody does. That is only unless a very strong minded preacher can easily avoid it. Here in the United States, you have five basic amendments supplied for you by the 1st Amendment. You can remeber them by RAPPS. Freedom of Religon, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Petition, and Freedom of Speech. In this case, you can speek whatever you want (If only it deals with federal safty (killing the presedent) such things will not be allowed) including speeches about religion, which you have freedom of picking your own. In a Court of Justice, however, I fear that the court would rule that critisizing someone's religion would be protected by the Constitution. No one can stopit, espicialy in alien countries. I'm really agianst it, which makes me sad. This was people who didn't know much about out American System. I could go on for paragraphs.
Another Atheist here, and we get our own batch of persecution in the US (I should call it discrimanation, persecution brings to mind a totalitarian government going against a certain group with massive amounts of violence.). People don't seem to get that being an Atheist doesn't mean one is evil, we do not need God to have morals. On one instance a person followed me around (to be fair this person was mentally challenged, but it's still scary that someone would teach this kid this kind of bigotry) shouting that I was going to hell (he also tried to use Pascal's wager against me), numorous times I have been called Satanic (How can I worship Satan if I don't believe he exist?). Obnoxious and intolerant people will always exist I suppose.
Being a Christian man, we unfortunately have a bad reputation amongst ourselves from the extremists who do that, The Eternal Skeleton. I mean, I don't go around telling everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus that they're going to hell, because that's not what the point of Christianity is. They should be talking about heaven instead of scaring atheists and agnostics with eternal damnation. >_>
Being a Christian man, we unfortunately have a bad reputation amongst ourselves from the extremists who do that, The Eternal Skeleton. I mean, I don't go around telling everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus that they're going to hell, because that's not what the point of Christianity is. They should be talking about heaven instead of scaring atheists and agnostics with eternal damnation. >_>
My family says all you have to do is believe in Jesus to go to heaven and such. There is times I question it though.
Another Atheist here, and we get our own batch of persecution in the US (I should call it discrimanation, persecution brings to mind a totalitarian government going against a certain group with massive amounts of violence.). People don't seem to get that being an Atheist doesn't mean one is evil, we do not need God to have morals. On one instance a person followed me around (to be fair this person was mentally challenged, but it's still scary that someone would teach this kid this kind of bigotry) shouting that I was going to hell (he also tried to use Pascal's wager against me), numorous times I have been called Satanic (How can I worship Satan if I don't believe he exist?). Obnoxious and intolerant people will always exist I suppose.
Oh my God! It's TES from ZCom!
Oh my God! It's TES from ZCom!
Ja, this is the same TES, and what member would you be? Are you a member?
I am also an atheist.
Well I am a Christian, but, I think it's interesting when forums have religious debates
because they usually end up in big arguments because everyone wants to prove they are
right.
I find it interesting for someone who doesn't believe in God would go to so much trouble to
convince a person who does else wise, that is why I believe we have an opportunity to
believe or not, backed up with the fact that there is so many religions out there obviously
we have all been imprinted on our soul some sort of question as to how the earth and
everything came into existence that we seek to answer, some turn to religion and others
turn to science, but at the end of the day science cannot prove everything.
I look at the world all the creatures, the sky and the stars and I say to myself this is
wonderful no chance the complexity of our universe just appeared randomly in one big
explosion. The smartest scientists still have not figured out how the universe started
at 0.00 seconds, all they can find out is that in the middle of nothing huge amounts of matter and energy appeared randomly and a giant explosion occured and created us and everything, living self aware creatures.
I am also an atheist.
*evil laugh* We're invading! Wait! No! Don't go towards the snack bar! Invade you idiots! -_- This is why Atheist holy war never works...
I am a Catholic...so all I really have to worry about it an extreme amount of excercise in chruch via standing up and sitting down and the Ku Klux Klan, who not only happen to be racist, anti-simetic and white-supremesist, but also anti-catholic as well...
I believe in God and all that, but not in organized religion, meaning I'm catholic baptized by birth, but my views on actually going to church are scattered as I don't believe that to orship whatever do you have to get hundreds of people together and cram into a tiny building for an hour or two every sunday...
I am a Catholic...so all I really have to worry about it an extreme amount of excercise in chruch via standing up and sitting down and the Ku Klux Klan, who not only happen to be racist, anti-simetic and white-supremesist, but also anti-catholic as well...
I believe in God and all that, but not in organized religion, meaning I'm catholic baptized by birth, but my views on actually going to church are scattered as I don't believe that to orship whatever do you have to get hundreds of people together and cram into a tiny building for an hour or two every sunday...
Huh? I though the Klan recently started accepting Catholics, I suppose I'll have to check on that.
I don't worship anyone or anything. People always ask why and I was raised this way, like the way those that question me were raised to be whatever-ists.
One thing I can't stand is when someone tries to push their religion on me.
Oh... and just a side note:
Be careful in this topic. Many debates arise from religion.
Being a Christian man, we unfortunately have a bad reputation amongst ourselves from the extremists who do that, The Eternal Skeleton. I mean, I don't go around telling everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus that they're going to hell, because that's not what the point of Christianity is. They should be talking about heaven instead of scaring atheists and agnostics with eternal damnation. >_>
Though you are correct, take a look at how the catholics, were "Extremists", I also agree with trying to scare people with hell, it makes me angry.
Though you are correct, take a look at how the catholics, were "Extremists", I also agree with trying to scare people with hell, it makes me angry.
And it's quite annoying, and generally pushes people farther away from the religion.
Aronath, I think it's really great that you stick up for God's name like that, when you know your gonna get bullied.
I am a Catholic, and sometimes I also say something when God's name is wrongly being used
