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- rtarar, on 02/25/2008, -14/+76"Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize winning physicist.
I rest my case. - PabloIV, on 02/25/2008, -16/+55FTA:
More than 16 percent of American adults say they are not part of any organized faith, which makes the unaffiliated the country’s fourth largest “religious group.
We should all pat ourselves in the back for our part in this. - inactive, on 02/25/2008, -10/+47Not surprising, given the way the all religions act today.
- Metropolis, on 02/25/2008, -3/+30Thank science!
- TheGreatZarquon, on 02/25/2008, -11/+37I used to be a Mormon priest, but gave it up after realizing that there is no God.
- EelfinnTy, on 02/25/2008, -2/+23Aww... you should have held out longer. You and your favorite wife could have started your own planet!
- PaxImperium, on 02/25/2008, -1/+22What exactly is an Atheist Fundamentalist?
That we fundamentally believe in reality? Please expand on your insulting post. - usrlocalbin, on 02/25/2008, -10/+31I hope someday the headline will say "Americans say '***** you' to organized religion, Report finds."
- wellyuk, on 02/25/2008, -2/+22You're just a man who BELIEVES god exists. You cannot possibly know that god exists.
- sigg14, on 02/25/2008, -6/+25first santa and the easter bunny and now god? we are running out of imaginary characters to lie to our children about.
- brainpan, on 02/25/2008, -1/+19I think it's good that people are at least questioning their beliefs- a healthy dose of skepticism is good for society
- diggduggjoe, on 02/25/2008, -6/+24I can fully understand moving to no religion, but for the life of me I cannot fathom why you would change your faith. Especially, drastically like going from Christian to Jew. You just threw out an entire segment of your life's knowledge due to it being BS, but can uncritically take on a new crop of excrement. Why?
- peestandingup, on 02/25/2008, -2/+19Yeah, they were totally better back in the day. Its not like they crucified people or anything.
- directrix13, on 02/25/2008, -2/+18"People use quotes for the same reason baseball players use steroids. They feel a need to inject something that makes them look like a bigger man."
-- Directrix13, just now, on digg - kazamx, on 02/25/2008, -2/+17Jews get to wear those little hats. Christians get to wear a crappy cross.
Hat > Cross. - SOS84, on 02/25/2008, -2/+16At least some people get it.
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
H.L. Menckin - carpespasm, on 02/25/2008, -1/+14the internet boom began.
- carpespasm, on 02/25/2008, -1/+14not to mention the effects of finding out more easily with communication tools we have today that there are people who think vastly different things than you who still manage to make it through life without the life-changing power of [insert deity/prophet/supernatural force here].
- diggduggDOOM, on 02/25/2008, -9/+22Better practice them all - hedge your afterlife bet.
- tightscrummy, on 02/25/2008, -0/+12No you don't.
- Rapter09, on 02/25/2008, -0/+12Hey, if you're giving free cookies or burrito's to Atheists, then color me Godless!
- holzp, on 02/25/2008, -3/+14I changed my faith to Digg in 2005, He works in mysterious ways.
- banmaster, on 02/25/2008, -1/+12Don't worry, we can still brainwash them with the delusion that we live in a democracy, and that brown people hate us because of "our freedoms" and not what we've done to them.
- dacjames, on 02/25/2008, -2/+13In related news, more Americans are attending college and internet usage continues to increase steadily.
Knowledge is power. - elliotys, on 02/25/2008, -8/+19Flying Spaghetti Monster FTW!
- banmaster, on 02/25/2008, -5/+16Science - Where the questions might never be answered
Religion - Where the answers MUST never be questioned! - spyrochaete, on 02/25/2008, -0/+11I'm Diggnostic. I'm not sure there is a Digg.
- TheGreatZarquon, on 02/25/2008, -3/+14lol, there's two Mormon churches: The Mormon Fundamentalists (polygamists) and the plain ol' Mormons. I was just a regular Mormon (with zero wives)!
- PaxImperium, on 02/25/2008, -0/+10Wicca is the greatest scourge on this planet?
Why? Be specific. - PaxImperium, on 02/25/2008, -1/+11Nothing relevant to say huh? Why am I not surprised.
- spyrochaete, on 02/25/2008, -0/+10You can't lump atheists together just like you can't lump all Christians together. There are different varieties of atheists. People choose atheism for their own reasons.
Personally, I was raised to believe in god but all the good and bad things that have ever happened to me have been the result of the actions of myself or my fellow man, so I have no proof of a god. I also see things like tradition, holidays, and ceremonies to be insulting and a waste of time that could be spent doing something now instead of recognizing something from thousands of years ago.
Do I consider myself to be better than religious people? Yes. I admit it. I reward logic, deeds, and adventure. I cannot understand faith, tradition, nor anyone's morals but my own. I see no benefit of religion that couldn't be earned "more genuinely" (my personal defintion) elsewhere.
demonsnake69, many people here wish you would elaborate on your words. Do you believe you are better than atheists? Why or why not? - MasterGrief, on 02/25/2008, -3/+12You're a witch!
- Genady, on 02/25/2008, -0/+9If God is all powerful can he create a burrito that is so hot that even he can't eat it?
- banmaster, on 02/25/2008, -5/+14Anyone, including you, that has the low inteligence required to believe that an invisible man in the sky made us all so he could persecute all but the 140,000 of us who will fit into heaven is a ***** RETARD!!
Go preach your unfounded crazy ***** elsewhere! Hey, heres an idea - why don't you move to pakistan and help kill anyone accused of witchcraft with the rest of the brainwashed ***** who think its their right to impose their ***** up religion onto everyone else in the world.
Oh, and by the way, we ARE better than you! We don't hide our arrogance and utter disdain for ***** under the guise of religion like you ***** do! I'm an arrogont prick and I'm proud of it! - jpwhitmore, on 02/25/2008, -1/+10membership in Pentecostal church went up, what's with that
- defektiv, on 02/25/2008, -1/+10When the religious right is telling everyone to believe in Jesus or burn in hell after they burn you alive, what do you expect? I was raised Christian and still claim to be, but I'm far from the fundamentalist and illogical Christianity I was brought up conditioned to believe.
People need to find their own paths more than anything, and I think that's all this is showing. - banmaster, on 02/25/2008, -6/+14BULL ***** *****!!
Any time you are threatened by eternal damnation unless you do good stuff is utterly contemptable!
Who is the better person? The guy who ONLY does good works because they believe they'll be left out of heaven if they don't, or the guy who does good works simply because its the right hting to do but who doesn't have any sword of damocles hanging over his head forcing him to be good? - BigOrangeHippo, on 02/25/2008, -2/+10“Religion is the single most important factor that drives American belief attitudes and behaviors...”
Read: Manipulation. - homercles337, on 02/25/2008, -3/+11Sounds like you have been beat about the head and shoulders with the stupid stick. Congrats.
- PaxImperium, on 02/26/2008, -0/+8...and your continued refusal to justify your claims is nothing more than cowardice which makes you seem more pathetic. ZeIID is a better example of a theist and has more balls than you do.
- Versh, on 02/25/2008, -2/+10Ah, Pascal's Super-Deluxe-Mega- Wager... a lesser known topic in teleology/ontology... :]
- skeen07, on 02/25/2008, -8/+16Well yeh, that and that whole truth thing.
- DavidGX, on 02/26/2008, -1/+9"I believe in *godhere* and that's the one true god and path and faith! Praise *godhere*!" "Hmm.. a little windy today, faith changing time!"
Religion is such a joke. - tightscrummy, on 02/25/2008, -1/+9Kali would beat the crap out of Jesus in a cage match.
- carpespasm, on 02/25/2008, -1/+9I guess it's the just venting of frustration over people not being willing to listen to what they have to say. Everyone on Digg who talks about skepticism of religion knows that they're mostly preaching to the choir, but I think they feel justified in demeaning people of faith since all major religions require some seriously odd logic to be believed in once you dig into their origins and specifics, whereas people who lack faith tend to see science as mostly supporting their view of the world.
- BabyWookie, on 02/25/2008, -1/+9Yeah, really. Jesus Camp was not supposed to be a promo video.
- Aeron, on 02/26/2008, -0/+7thou shalt not question the digg algorithm
- tightscrummy, on 02/25/2008, -2/+9Child abuser.
- spyrochaete, on 02/25/2008, -0/+7You've got this atheist's digg. You're a lucky person to have identified a factor in your life that inspires you to improve yourself, and a go-getter for delving deeper to seek greater inspiration. I personally didn't need religion for that but if others do, that's cool.
Even if we can't agree on the means we can enjoy the ends together. - GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 02/26/2008, -2/+9Step One: Realize YOUR organized religion is bogus.
Step Two: Realize ALL organized religion is bogus. -
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