Comments on: Vogue Atheism

By: benj

benj — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:01:04 +0000

Friendly Atheist, this was a great rebuttal. I just realized that your site does what I intended my site to do (at least in the Filipino milieu). Unfortunately, this 21 year old still can’t hold his temper when dealing with the fundies. Kudos to you and thank you even amplifying the voice of Atheism and Secularism to the rest of the world.

I will be linking to you. I hope you don’t mind.

Benj
http://atheista.net

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:05:16 +0000

Jon,
That was a very honest statement. No pretentions, no canned wisdom from somebody else, and no chip on your shoulder. Just an intimate sharing of where you’re at right now. Thank you for that refreshing honesty. Just keep being honest; don’t worry about truth.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:11:36 +0000

I completely agree i just wish people would leave me alone.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:51:46 +0000

I grew up in a mixed religious family. I have had personal contact with christian faith and self realization. I must say that from a very young age I never understood why we took time out of a Sunday morning to go to church when I could be playing outdoors, with Nintendo etc. I knew enough not to protest much since that would bring sanctions.

Now I’m agnostic. That being said I am much closer to be an atheist than I am to anything else. The only thing that separates me from saying “No God(s) or force is out there” is the beginning of the universe.

We will probably never know enough in this lifetime to fully understand why we or anything else is here. I’m not saying that “Somebody had to have put us here” just because we don’t understand but I must admit that this issue prevents me from declaring that I am 100% atheist. At any rate I hope that more secular attitudes take hold around the world.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:26:38 +0000

It has almost always come from near strangers who tell me “They say there’s an atheist around here and I just had to see what one of you freraks look like.”

I think that’s more of “You’re DIFFERENT!” than anything else.
(”You are not of The Body. You are Archons…”)

I never met an atheist I could like. Surely, somewhere on this planet, there is a friendly atheist, but I haven’t bumped into one yet.

Maybe he had a lot of run-ins with “Anti-Theists”, those who have gone beyond plain atheism to automatic hostility to anything outside atheism? Every belief system has its rigid and hostile “Fundamentalists” who are looking for a fight, and that type tends to keep a high profile.

By: Louie

Louie — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:42:49 +0000

I’d like to second what Siamang has said. I went to the London Nautical School. We dressed like sailors and in the UK bullying is rife, especially if you’re a bit clever. School is often not that fun, regardless of what you believe. Hang in there and soon you’ll be old enough to enjoy adult things. You quickly forget what those long days at school were like.

By: Siamang

Siamang — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:38:21 +0000

All I can tell you is that this is part of your education then. It seems hard and difficult now, but eventually you do grow up and get out of school. I’d say continue to seek whatever fellowship you can online with other atheists, and learn as much as you can about people different from you at school. It can only serve you well in the long run.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:35:01 +0000

Well if I really wanted to I could go to a Korean school but my parents mostly use it as a joke when I want to change schools. (Korean schools are good but extremely tough and unreasonably harsh. My parents don’t follow any particular religion so I am not necessarily alone just I fell like I’ll never truly fit in with everyone at my school and I am actually limited from get certain awards or joining clubs because I don’t show Christ like attitudes.

By: Siamang

Siamang — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:59:45 +0000

Wow Erik,

That sounds terrible.

What do your parents believe? Do they have any options for you?

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:11:48 +0000

Sort of off topic but does anyone here know what its like to be an atheist when you are forced to go to a Christian school because there is no alternative in a foreign country and everyday you sit there having to put up with people preaching and telling me that I am misguided all the time. It makes me mad because I apparently go to a ‘Foreign’ school with many religious beliefs. Yet they treat the world as though everyone else is wrong and they are right. I was so annoyed by my class when they prayed for me when my grandmother died I left the room and went walking around the halls until someone made me come back to class. They didn’t understand why I was upset. Also just for extra information I go to Seoul ‘Foreign’ School in South Korea and I go to this Christian ‘foreign’ school because the only alternative is go to a Korean school.