Growing up in an irreligious household.

[SlowwHand]

And that's why Hell will be full of Brits.

[Arrian]

Agathon, would it be possible for you to be any snottier? That last post wasn't nearly insulting enough. Please try again.

-Arrian

[SlowwHand]

Puddy doesn't have a problem with Elaine not being religious, after all he is not the one who's "going to hell."

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Arrian
Agathon, would it be possible for you to be any snottier? That last post wasn't nearly insulting enough. Please try again.

-Arrian

It wasn't meant to be insulting you crack-smoking brain-dead butt-faced clown.

It's a fact, the US is way more religious than other English speaking countries. That accounts for the fact that some American posters consider this to be a wildly atheist site and the rest of us consider it to be fairly religious.

'Tis all I was saying.

Unnerstand?

[Arrian]

I knew exactly what you were saying. But you deliberately said it snottily. Don't bother denying it.

-Arrian

[Japher]

Yeah, don't type in that tone opf voice anymore! It's really degrading!!!!!!!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Bull****, KH. Not believing that one.

You don't have to believe it. but it's true.

The unitarian church a friend of my girlfriend's goes to is flaky even by unitarian standards. And the minister is an atheist. He openly talks about it while giving sermons. Nobody seems to care.

[Shi Huangdi]

Slowwhand: Only God decideds who is going to Hell and who isn't. You aren't exactly witnessing your faith in a very charitable way that is likely to attract anyone.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
John, go to a religious-positive site.
Say, "Make me believe".
Otherwise, you're just asking for confirmation of non-belief, instead of seeking truth.

I don't get this. "Go to a religious site and get them to change your mind instead of asking people whose attitude toward religion is more similar to yours their opinions"

Religion is right because it's right because it's right?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Arrian
I knew exactly what you were saying. But you deliberately said it snottily. Don't bother denying it.

-Arrian

Up yours. So you're a mind reader now...

I did not deliberately say it that way at all. You took it that way and that's your problem, not mine.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Japher
Yeah, don't type in that tone opf voice anymore! It's really degrading!!!!!!!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Arrian
First off, isn't Sophie really young?

IMO, one needs to be able to reason before one should be making choices about a belief system/faith. Obviously this is an irreligious point of view, since religions seem to like to get 'em young (sorry, couldn't help that one ). Therefore, I think high school & college elective courses and/or extracurricular study around that time is a good intro to religion. At that point, you should know how to think, and thus if you chose a religion, your choice has some weight to it.

Sending a child to "Sunday School" or whatever when they're in elementary/middle school is... well, I wouldn't do it. I'll leave it at that.

-Arrian

No chanukkah candles? No latkes? No purim plays, or groggers? No four questions on Pesach? No apples and honey on Rosh hashanah? no learning about forgiveness on Yom Kippur? No meals in the sukkah? No shabbat songs, or challah baking? Such scrooges you are.

And childhood is the BEST time to learn a language.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


I know an atheist Unitarian minister...

A Reform rabbi in Michigan declared himself "ignostic" (he doesnt know what "god" means) That was too much even for Reform, so he went out and founded "Humanist Judaism"

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Agathon

Up yours. So you're a mind reader now...

I did not deliberately say it that way at all. You took it that way and that's your problem, not mine.

My problem is that I read your posts.

-Arrian

[Imran Siddiqui]

Have you ever been president of the US? No? Well if you were you'd understand what it was like and understand his decisions, until then you might as well accept you can't understand or comment on what he does.

He never said you couldn't comment on it, he said you don't fully understand. And I think in your example that is true as well. You don't fully understand what the President of the US (or the PM of Great Britain) has to go through.

It's the Americans. Everywhere else has pretty much given up on religion.

Um... shouldn't you quantify that statement?

Mexico, for instance, is very Catholic. The Middle East is, of course, very Islamic, etc.