Relax! You're an athiest! The cock only crows three times when you renounce Jesus, not when you renounce your non-belief. Remember, a Christian has to answer to God at the end of the day. You don't have to answer to anyone! Isn't that why most of you folks rationalize yourselves into being nonbelievers in the first place?
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Did you know that it's possible to answer to yourself? Shocking, I know, but some people actually manage to hold an internal moral standard and live to it without ending up a rapist or murderer.
Don't worry if you can't get your head around it. It's a real brain teaser.
Um..no. The reason I am an atheist is that I don't see any evidence for the existence of god(s and because of the contradictions between religious doctrines and easily observable facts. I can't shut my brain off enough to force myself to believe without evidence and in the face of massive contradictions.
And as for morality, I answer to my own personal moral standards and sense of empathy for my fellow humans, and my respect for the laws of my country. I don't need to be threatened with eternal torment after I die (something ELSE for which there is no evidence) in other to behave myself.
I assume the cock also crows three times for those fundamentalist christians who put the bible before the ideals represented by Jesus.
Isn´t it what you fundie folk always rationalize yourself into, that being christians is equal to trying to force your own moral values onto others and always being right? And isn´t it always connected to you cherrry picking those passages from the bible that, according to your belief, supports you moral standpoint, whereas dismissing other passages that you don´t like or that you don´t think to be applicable in modern times
I have to answer to the social contract.
And no matter how much I confess and feel sorry, I am always responsible for anything bad I do.
I'm liable for my own actions, with no God to forgive me and no Satan to blame my deeds on.
I am morally at least as liable as you.
Have you ever conversed with an atheist? Have you ever actually listened to reasons people have for calling themselves atheists?
It sounds to me like you are making some sweeping generalizations with no evidence whatsoever.
I can tell you "not answering to anyone" has absolutely nothing to do with what I do, or don't, believe.
But, you won't actually know that since you have such biased preconceived notions already.
Oh! That's right! I'm an atheist so that I can be immoral and free! Tell me, again, how you answer to God? Because I thought that you had to beg Jesus for forgiveness, and are thus not held accountable for anything prior to that repentance. Hardly seems like you would be answering to God for anything to me. But I guess that your religion is only a source of rigid ethical codes and pure, undeniable moral behavior when it suits your argument, huh?
Everyone has to answer to someone, be it their boss, parents, educators, or various other social superiors. Tacking on God just seems silly since he neither punishes nor rewards anyone for anything and is dubiously unevidenced. If there is some great cosmic judgement at the end of one's life then logically you should pass easily if you had few transgressions to the previously mentioned social superiors as well as your peers. If god really needs you to believe in him against all evidence then I'd just rather not deal with his bullshit because I know I'm a good person I don't need him to justify that for me.
You don't have to answer to anyone! Isn't that why most of you folks rationalize yourselves into being nonbelievers in the first place?
Good guess Kreskin, but wrong.
It must be a real mind-fuck to fundies - they just can't accept that people have their own internalized morals - and not just some hokum learned by heart from an ancient book, coupled with a pant-wetting fear of a tyrannical deity. Generally, atheists think that when we die, we die. End of story. No mythical places of reward or torture, so it's best to make the most of the life you've got. Why can't you wrap your little heads around that?
The cock only crows three times when you renounce Jesus, not when you renounce your non-belief.
You can't renounce non-belief. But you can start believing in something.
actually, there's a lot of things I answer to, like the rule of law, the democratic system and basic humanistic ethics.
However, I refuse to answer to some crazy cosmic nutbag whose followers want to force me to choose for him
Nope, and most atheists aren't the hell-raising types that christians are.
How about there isn't any evidence for your, or anyone else's, sky daddy - outside of your constant insistance of there being one.
I wouldn't kiss your ass if you were the last person on the Earth, stupid. Btw, is that how a Christian should express him- or herself?
I didn't rationalize myself into being a nonbeliever that way. I just realized I saw no evidence of a omnibelevolent and omnipresent deity, and decided I didn't want to adapt my life to something that had no evidence in its favor. I never was an ardent believer, but as my mother was a Sunday School teacher for a short time when I was little, you bet I've heard quite a lot of stories about Jesus. However, she was not a fundamentalist, she never forced any belief onto us, but read more socialistic stories than Jesus stories.
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"The cock only crows three times when you renounce Jesus, not when you renounce your non-belief. Remember, a Christian has to answer to God at the end of the day. You don't have to answer to anyone! Isn't that why most of you folks rationalize yourselves into being nonbelievers in the first place?"
Jonathan Edwards.
Enjoy your MC Escher-esque multi-dimensional paradox.
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