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What are your views on religion?

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Like i said earlier i am atheis but before i was church of god 7th day. We didnt celebrate christmas or any other holiday that had religious origins because the majority were really stupid. Like easter and we also dont celebrate birthdays.
And my beliefs about how the universe was created is that, The universe has been around for a while(dont question it) and we just came from evolution.
 
collinbxyz said:
So how many other atheists celebrate "religious" holidays? (Christmas, Easter, etc.)
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Nobody in my family is religious enough to talk about it, and I never had much contact with other people, so it took me a while to figure out that there was anything to Christmas beyond it being that day when I got stuff.
 
I celebrate Holiday (from the church of the flying spaghetti monster) and send Holiday cards to my friends
I don't celebrate easter or any other holidays which can be seen as religious
 
collinbxyz said:
My family also celebrates Christmas... my eight year old sister still believes in "Santa" :P
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Don't complain just keep milking it, ask for stuff so your sister keeps believing for awhile.(;

My little brother ruined it by being a brat one day, so keep the little kids in check to keep getting "Santa gifts".
 
zmikecuber said:
atheists dont know more about people's religions. people know less about their own religion than atheists.

I would like an atheist here to show how he knows more about my religion than me. ;)

also, that is assuming that the person taking the poll can "judge" who knows more about the religion.

for example an atheist says: Catholics say the pope is always right. this is completely false, but to the person taking the poll they might say "hmm that atheist sure knows alot about Catholicism", as opposed to the ignorant Catholic who says "uh... Pope John Paul II is the Pope still... right? O.O"
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Just to clarify, the entire questionnaire can be found here: http://pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Belief_and_Practices/religious-knowledge-questionnaire.pdf

zmikecuber said:
so yeah, I would say that atheists might think they know more about other people's religions, but have a flawed knowledge of that religion. so those polls are right, but theyre not in a way.
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Note that most atheists were once fully apart of a religion. Many atheists actually became atheists after learning more about their religion. One of my favorite atheists, Matt Dillahunty, was actually studying to become a minister when he became atheist.
 
PatrickJameson said:
Note that most atheists were once fully apart of a religion. Many atheists actually became atheists after learning more about their religion. One of my favorite atheists, Matt Dillahunty, was actually studying to become a minister when he became atheist.
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On the opposite side of that, though, there are many people who became Christians during the process of trying to disprove Christianity (e.g. C.S. Lewis).
 
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Chapuunka said:
On the opposite side of that, though, there are many people who became Christians during the process of trying to disprove Christianity (i.e. C.S. Lewis).
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Sigh.


The inability to disprove something IS NOT a reason to believe it. You should disbelieve a claim until you have compelling evidence to support it. It's impossible to disprove the existence of anything, but that doesn't mean that you should believe that everything exists.
 
Whoa, calm down. I was under the impression that this was an Internet forum where there was supposed to be casual discussion. I mentioned one well-known person as an example (hence, e.g.), not a full list.

I wasn't trying to prove anything with my post, just point something out.
 
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Weston said:
Sigh.


The inability to disprove something IS NOT a reason to believe it. You should disbelieve a claim until you have compelling evidence to support it. It's impossible to disprove the existence of anything, but that doesn't mean that you should believe that everything exists.
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And blowing things out of proportion really isn't helping. Especially when your argument starts with "in my opinion..."
 
Weston said:
The inability to disprove something IS NOT a reason to believe it. You should disbelieve a claim until you have compelling evidence to support it. It's impossible to disprove the existence of anything, but that doesn't mean that you should believe that everything exists.
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But you can believe it. You are forgetting that religious views are a personal choice, not yours, not the government's (as far as the US is concerned). You don't have to tell people not to believe in what they believe. And you really don't have to argue about it. As long as a person means no harm(and sometimes that isn't the case) they can believe what they want.
 
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