Comments on: What a Christian Learned from an Atheist

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:42:05 +0000

Sorry but Atheism is a belief. For in order to be an Atheist you must believe in nothing. Only an Agnostic has no belief, as an Agnostic dosen’t know what to believe.

By: Jameson Sawyer

Jameson Sawyer — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:34:46 +0000

“If you believe, as Sawyer does, that you’re put here for other people, then you have to know the ground rules.”

Heh.. I was not ‘put here’. I chose my path.

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Ebay Selling Tips » Blog Archive » An Atheist’s Journey — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:20:17 +0000

[...] In a discussion on Friendly Atheist, someone asked if anyone’s life had been saved by atheism. I think Joshua’s in that category. [...]

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:16:20 +0000

Every time, blah blah blah atheism is a religion blah blah blah Stalin and Hitler killed people because they were atheists blah blah blah it takes more faith to not believe than to believe.

Then we set them straight- Hilter was actually Catholic and besides, no one kills in the name of atheism, and it goes in one ear and out the other.

Then the next day, “atheism is a religion…”

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:38:59 +0000

Awesome link, Siamang! What a great story – I bet a lot of us here can relate.

Interesting how so many different things can ’save’ people when they’re in the pits of despair. Religions (esp Christianity) tend to trumpet their conversion stories, and talk about the god-shaped hole that can only be filled supernaturally, but we don’t hear much about the other things that people latch onto that help them overcome depression, suicidal thoughts and general unhappiness.

A few weeks ago there was an NPR feature on a guy whose life was really in the dumps – he’d gotten involved in drugs and crime and even done time in prison – and it was music that turned him around. Specifically, his childhood piano teacher looked him up and persuaded him to start practicing again – apparently he’d been something of a child prodigy, but family circumstances led him to give up music.

Once he got back into the music world, he cleaned up his act, entered competitions, met his future wife at one of them, took over a family business and today he’s a totally different guy. It doesn’t always take “supernatural” resources to save people, despite all the dramatic stories we hear from religion.

By: Tom E. Snyder

Tom E. Snyder — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:50:43 +0000

Why do these money hungry religious leaders always go to the poor and lesser educated?

Because that’s where the money is.

By: Robert Bowland

Robert Bowland — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:30:16 +0000

Another point I forgot to mention. Let’s don’t go there either, but what can others say, mixing apples with oranges is a typical writing style of religionists. Communism and socialism are not atheism. Not in the real understanding. One has to remember that when communism came about there was a rejection to Christian-based monarchies, but then again it was an established written in stone doctrine with a set of human made laws, rules, and concepts that obviously had failed with many nations. These type of reactions result in war and struggle with some sort of blood bath usually. Atheists don’t draw up such systems. Usually, these man made systems fail and, again, history proves this. We simply deal with fact and truth not assumptions. We don’t have to war on this. To atheist the act of war is rather MORONICALLY costly. This is what religionists do in their arrogant attitude ‘I’m right, your worng. My god is better than your god.’ That sound kind of childish. Please, don’t compare us atheists to these kind of people.

By: Siamang

Siamang — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:00:24 +0000

Here's someone else whose life was saved by atheism.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:39:09 +0000

Nelson was incredibly condescending in his latest article though. He sounded like I felt when I was a kid and I got sent to my room and heartily disagreed with the punishment, but grudgingly apologized so I didn’t get punished even more.

Not impressed.

By: Robert Bowland

Robert Bowland — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:49:27 +0000

It is rather arrogant to compare religion or theism to atheism in any way. There just isn’t any relationship. Atheism is in itself is a misnomer. Atheism is simply the rejection of any faith based doctrine of god or any of its dogma. It is not a system of any kind either. When atheists get together, they form an alliance not a communion or congregation. Atheists do not believe nor toterate the idea of an existing god. Evolution, in both its micro and macro perspective, have more evidence of its existence than religion of any kind has of its own. Religion is a faith based on assumption it can not prove. This is an absurdity to compare the two. Get it. I can prove to you the evidence of evolution and other non-faith based material. The libraries are full of such information. With religion on the other hand, not only can’t they prove anything, they make fools of themselves when these relgionists do. Libraries keep there books on file simply because they are story telling books just like old fairy tales. Religious followers seem to try to force or trick others in order to get others to believe in it. Why do these money hungry religious leaders always go to the poor and lesser educated? Figure that one out? There is all kinds of literary and historical evidence of this kind of grap. The Christian and Muslim fundamentalists today are an example of this. This is faith based? Give me a break. The whole idea of suggesting that atheism is a faith in a god or any kind of faith-based system is just MORONIC.