For all the Believer turned Agnostics and Athiests

carolina cutie wrote: *Sips heathen tea*

**Sk!TtLeS B** wrote: carolina cutie wrote: *Sips heathen tea* Can I have some? *holds empty heathen cup*

Of course.

*sips heathen tea with CC*

**Sk!TtLeS B** wrote: beebeexx wrote: i feel like the most intruguing views have been skipped over and people have chose to focus on the same tired asinine arguments... this thread had so much potential man. It's because some believers are taking some non-believer's questions as a direct affront to their faith, while, a lot of the time, the questions were born out of pure curiosity. Now Im not saying that there havent been loaded questions asked or shots fired, because there have been, but I read a lot of the questions asked in this thread as genuine "I really wanna know" questions.  Religion and faith are tricky topics because so much of who a person is is usually tied to these things. For a lot of people, you cant criticize or question the institution without seeming like you're criticizing and questioning them.  But, that's just my take on it. *continues to sip tea*

I have found that just having no belief in any deity is enough to rile some people who believe.  It's almost as if your presence is a complete insult to whatever they thought they knew about the world.

There's a debate?
You can't really debate spiritual beliefs

You either believe something or you don't

If you wanna talk about "winning" well...  any person of faith is "winning" just solely based on numbers


Let's say Atheists are correct, there is no God, no higher being... we all die and turn into matter
Well then every person of faith has nothing to lose. They don't go to hell for believing in something that doesn't exist b/c there is no hell and they don't regret living by a faith b/c most are, essentially, positive

Let's say people of faith (Christianity for example) are correct, God exists... we only go to heaven through admitting God is real, asking for forgiveness and doing 'work'. Then atheists lose out and spend eternity in hell

Depending on how you look at it.... Christians (or others of faith) are in a Win/Win situation

Atheists are the ones taking the risk

I don't like breaking it down this way but couldn't help myself since BHM loves math so much... lol

BBpants wrote: I think team"atheist" is winning this debate...lol