Atheism on the Decline; Paganism on the Rise

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy
I can see that them Marxists have been drilling a lot of hogwash into your brain.

Marxism's got nothing to do with your 19th Century belliefs you try to pass off as Christianity.

That one-liner is worthy being quoted in my sig, but just because I'm Mr. Nice Guy and a Christian I'm not gonna do it.

You think I'm afraid of you? I was Christian before you were born. I stopped being Xian for the same reason I stopped bing a pagan. It's all BS.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Notice the lack of participants from a pagan perspective? We've got too much taste.

As an ex-pagan, I disrespectfully disagree. I've known too many pagans.

[Q Classic]

My denomination (Southern Baptist), however, doesn't hold to this belief.

Oh, that explains why you don't speak for my God. You think my Church is filled with boy-touching papist cultists, don't you?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You think a pagan with taste would associate with you?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
OK. I'm a pagan. There's your proof.

Would you like me to explain, or do you still have all the answers?

We're to infer you consider yourself a higher power?

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
What's wrong with paganism, as a whole?

And "void" is fine if a) it's honest and b) it allows us to fill it with ourselves.

X-ty is honest as well, but honesty isn't good as it is, without anything else.
Fill the void with ourselves?
That's no good. Many humans are evil.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Last Conformist

We're to infer you consider yourself a higher power?

Of course you are, but that's not the point.

I'm a pagan. I celebrate life and the forces of life as they manifest themselves about me. What is the part that requires proof? The fact that there is life manifesting itself about me, or the fact that I celebrate it?

I assumed it was the latter, because the former would be totally absurd.

[Heresson]

oh, and most are egoists

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Marxism's got nothing to do with your 19th Century belliefs you try to pass off as Christianity.

Marxism is 19th Century. The belief that Jesus will come back again is a 2,000-year-old phenomenon.

You think I'm afraid of you?

Che, I've just about had it with your hateful remarks.

[Whaleboy]

Marxism is 19th Century. The belief that Jesus will come back again is a 2,000-year-old phenomenon.

Umm, that's even worse

Actually, all three are void, but only one is honest with themselves.

Perhaps, though yes, I'll take the honesty of atheism/agnosicism over the delusions of religion any day .

Laz is right about the pagans, and I am certainly far more sympathetic to transcendental philosophies than I am to organised religions in the monotheistic mold. I'm a little concerned the consensus image of paganism is of sadists in the wood, sacrificing virgins between chanting Satanic incantations and downloading Cradle of Filth albums . Paganism as an "ism" is way more diverse and historical than anything that calls itself "Christian".

[Dis]

cradle of filth

and yes I'm a nature freak. I don't really worship nature, but I do feel a strong connection to it. I do have native american blood in me after all. but worshipping nature seems a bit silly. respecting it is not.

christianity is too biased towards humans.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


Of course you are, but that's not the point.

I'm a pagan. I celebrate life and the forces of life as they manifest themselves about me. What is the part that requires proof? The fact that there is life manifesting itself about me, or the fact that I celebrate it?

I assumed it was the latter, because the former would be totally absurd.

How so? For all I know, you're just a spambot in a sterile lab.

Personally, I've always felt that the "celebrating life" brand of paganism to suffer from the same problem as LaVeyan Satanism; it combines all the bad points of a "normal" religion (big daddy God in the sky) religion with all the bad ones of atheism, without any of the good points of either. Tastes clearly differ.

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Originally posted by Sava
See... you can't even provide evidence of your God. And when someone confronts you with this fact, you hide behind a smiley.

I'm pretty certain he's been told all of the evidence beforehand and has arrogantly refused to open his ears and listen; there's no sense in repeating it and there's no sense in drifting off-topic any further than this thread has already drifted.

And besides, not all atheists are arrogant. Some can lend some credibility to some of their claims.

[Whaleboy]

I'm pretty certain he's been told all of the evidence beforehand and has arrogantly refused to open his ears and listen; there's no sense in repeating it and there's no sense in drifting off-topic any further than this thread has already drifted.

I should think your pwnage is very much on topic . If God cannot be shown in rational terms, do you concur that efforts to do so are futile and that he does not exist, as we use the term?

And besides, not all atheists are arrogant. Some can lend some credibility to some of their claims.

I generally find it's the theists that are arrogant and generally have this ability to close their ears as soon as they hear something that they don't want to hear regarding the existence of god or any of their beliefs. I, for one, am more than prepared to listen because I am secure in the strength of the atheist argument.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy
Marxism is 19th Century.

And it has nothing to do with your beliefs as a Dispensationalist.

The belief that Jesus will come back again is a 2,000-year-old phenomenon.

But your brand of Christianity isn't that old. In the 19th Century, a Scottsman came up with a bunch of new ideas which aren't in the Bible, and yet you adhere to them. Dispensationalism isn't even 200 years old. It most certainly isn't true Chistianity.

Che, I've just about had it with your hateful remarks.