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Originally posted by Fom
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Originally posted by hanny08
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Originally posted by Fom
Religion is so patchy, its becoming more patchy than science! The more science is discovering the more religion is having to re think its idea. Hopefully it wont be to long until God is proven wrong and people snap out of it. There will be that few though that wont accept science even if god was proven wrong, its a false sense of hope, god makes people feel safe and secure and it prevents them from opening up to the real world.
People think if there isnt an explanation to everything from science it resolves to their being a god! Just because we cant prove it doesnt mean there is a god, there is loads of things we couldnt prove ages ago that we can now. Things just take time.
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I understand that you obviously 100% do not believe in God and thats fine. But alot of people receive great comfort in believing that there is one and to state that people should 'snap out of it' is appaling. What is so wrong in someone having faith, even if it is in something that can't be proven. I'm not talking about religous nut jobs that try to force their faith on other people, but the millions of people who have a quiet faith in their hearts and like I said have comfort in it. I do belive in God, I was raised to, but that being said I don't just believe because I was told to. When I was in teens I questioned the whole thing and then came to my own conclusions. I do not judge anyone for not believing, it's their own choice to make, much as mine was, and therefore shouldn't be judged for my choice.
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Correct I dont believe in it 100% but I am not fully against it, its people's choice at the end of the day, even if I dont agree. But they should respect the fact I am an atheist and stop thrusting their religion upon me, when Im walking through Manchester and I get this crazy guy throwing leaflets on me shouting "Preach the lord" in my ear it only hightens my hate towards religion. If religion was quiet... and wasnt spoke about much and people did their prayers in private I would be happier... but when people start doing lots of religious stuff in front of me it naturally just irritates me. Which is just my way of thinking.
I dont hate people who do religion, but the idea of religion annoys me... I dont know why, it just really hits a nerve with me. And clearly there are other Atheists who feel the same way, lets just say we have the same feeling towards non religion that you do towards religion.
You want comfort in life so you believe in god, I want complete freedom and to live my own life with my own mistakes, my own morals, my own thoughs and not having a religion pulling me down therefore being an atheist.
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It's not really that I want comfort so therefore I believe in God, it just gives me comfort to believe in him. I don't live my life according to the rules of any one particular religion, I was raised Catholic But I'm far from being one so I don't consider myself one. I too live with the freedom to make my own mistkes and so forth. I have free will afterall. I can completely understand you hating it when people try to push their religious beliefs on you, no one should be subjected to that which is why I've not listed exactly what mine are here.
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