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Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

Religion What is your take on religion? Do you base your thoughts in life according to your religion? Do you feel that religion should be kept out of Government and Politics?

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Old 07-20-2007, 02:05 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Not really. Most Atheists and Agnostics that I know arrived at that point after years of studying religion and finding it unsatisfactory.

Besides that, we are constantly having to defend our beliefs to those who think they have a "message" that we need to hear. We have to know what we are talking about in order to get all those well meaning proselytizers to back off.

In my experience, if I can ask them enough history questions that they can't answer without some intense research and ask them to explain enough Biblical references that they didn't even know existed, they hush up and leave me alone.
I have witnessed just the opposite. You are a rare breed my friend.
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Old 07-20-2007, 02:16 PM   #42 (permalink)
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If you want to believe that life started by one big boom, or the fact that your ancestor was an ape, by all means do that. I will continue to be a Christian, and all of this anti-Christian propaganda is not going tochange my mind. How about you liberals do what you preach for once, maybe show some tolerance?
Actually, it is possible to believe all that and still be a Christian (albiet not a fundamentalist one). There are some mainstream protestant churches that believe in evolution and the earth being billions of years old. The UCC is one of them.
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Actually, it is possible to believe all that and still be a Christian (albiet not a fundamentalist one). There are some mainstream protestant churches that believe in evolution and the earth being billions of years old. The UCC is one of them.
Actually, most Christian churches nowadays are not literalists, not even Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Atheists know more about the Bible, Christianity, and church history?! haha You have got to be kidding me!!
Sadly, I have found that to be true in my discussions. It has been my experience (and mind you, that I am only speaking of MY experience) that those that are not of any of the Abrahamic faiths tend to study them more than those who are.

It goes back to the basic question 'why do we believe as we do?' Agnostics, and atheists allow themselves a lot more lattitude in understanding such things than those that subsribe to a belief system. Neither is wrong, but each has its advantages and disadvantages.
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Say, let's really piss everybody off... Let's do

"Top Ten Signs You're a Man"

"Top Ten Signs You're a Woman."

Ha ha
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Knight, by the same token, many atheists think theists are ignorant about what they think. In other words, they might think every Christian runs around thinking, "oh, you became an atheist because you're angry at God becasue something bad happened in your life."

As a former atheist myself, I find pointing out to them that I DO understand their arguments will shut up the more obnoxious ones.

(Yes, just as with people of faith, their are, IMO, "evangelical" atheists who give all the others an undeserved bad name.)
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Say, let's really piss everybody off... Let's do

"Top Ten Signs You're a Man"

"Top Ten Signs You're a Woman."

Ha ha
I've seen those done. I thought they were both pretty funny.
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(Yes, just as with people of faith, their are, IMO, "evangelical" atheists who give all the others an undeserved bad name.)

If I were not agnostic I would have to say, "Amen!"

What the heck.

Amen!
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Crazy... yeah with stuff like,

(for men) "You think lighting flatulence on fire is high-brow artistic expression."

(for women) "You think stopping to look at, touch and discuss at lenght every freakin' thing in the store is 'just doing a little quick shopping.'"
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