Dwight, he didn't say anything, just posted ginormous pictures of chicks for some reason.

Tele is really ****ing weird.

If you want to know what people talk about in Atheist meetings, just go to reddit. It'll solve this "mystery" for you.

I'd type more about it but the banality would destroy me.

It's ironic that the staple of christian faith is tolerance and forgiveness, isnt it?

Shouldn't you be busy pitying the atheists and agnostics instead of being angry and not knowing what those terms mean?

It's poetic watching you so called sinners quote scripture to save your soul for a a deity that has as much credibility as superman.

I'd venture to say that 99% or there otherwise overwhelming majority of religious christians and certainly some of other faiths for that matter only believe what they do because their parents taught them to.
You grew up as an impressionable ball of play-dough and you had jesus and god pressed upon you because you had no free will.

You continue to claim those childish learnings today because it makes you identify with a larger group and a greater cause and it gives meaning to life in an otherwise very crazy very unforgiving very uncertain world.

Much like your bed time stories, you hold on to religion and clutch it like your favorite stuffed animal when you were 3. It keeps the bad dreams away. Say your prayers, you'll be saved from hell, live your life to glorify your god. Never question what you believe. Its all you have ever known, so you hold on tightly.

But there are those of us who question everything; there are those of us who dare your god to show himself. It's not that I don't believe in him...i believe in the truth. And until you can show me how a sea can part, how a man can live in a whales stomach, or how 2 of every animal in the world can fit on a boat, i do not believe you.

It's the great uncertainty of life. That's what all this is ultimately about. People are free to believe in what they want so that they may have solace and the sanctity of pseudo salvation.

If you want to get in to the philosophy of it, I've the belief that not every man on earth was created equally and we are all not meant to worship the same god or gods. You can have your belief, I can have mine. We'll deal with the consequences in our respective next lives, wont we brother?

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It's ironic that the staple of christian faith is tolerance and forgiveness, isnt it?

Shouldn't you be busy pitying the atheists and agnostics instead of being angry and not knowing what those terms mean?

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Who's angry? Sure as hell isn't me. I don't have a problem with atheists or agnostics, so spare me the tolerance spiel.

Of course people's beliefs are shaped by their parents, why wouldn't they be? You say that as if it makes people's faith less valid. Your condescending attitude is making you come off like an unbelievable *****.

Usually they end up debating theological literature and theology itself, from what my friends that are in that club say. This happens with each other, but most often includes people who are religious.

Honestly, I have to applaud the AASG for taking their stand. It gets annoying as hell to hear the crap that Bible-thumpers shove in everyone's faces. The AASG is usually out for a good laugh.

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Of course people's beliefs are shaped by their parents, why wouldn't they be? You say that as if it makes people's faith less valid.

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well their faith may not be any less valid, but it certainly diminishes the likelihood of that which they believe in is true. if the christian god reveals himself to all, shouldn't there be a more even dispersion of christians around the world?

the real irony here is the idea that a majority of Christians never have their own doubts.

I know lots of others who question their faith, including myself. I'm not talking about the silly "let's have a session where we "question" purely as a means bolster faith", but really and truly "does God really exist? How did all that stuff in the Bible really happen? Why can't we even get one 5 minute thing where God pokes his head out of the clouds and is like "Hey...Just wanted to let you know I'm real. Alright, later.". There are lots of answers/guesses for all that, but, apparently if they don't reach the same conclusion and decide to be athiest, they are still just following blindly apparently.

I have fond memories of picking up girls at the Chicken after they came for beers following their Bible study