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Are you an Atheist/Agnostic?
Yes 90%  90%  [ 126 ]
No, i was brainwashed into theism when i was young 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
I used to be an atheist but i chose a religion my parents don't follow when i was over 10 3%  3%  [ 4 ]
u insultd my imaginry frend u goin to hell cos an old book sed so 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 140

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04 Nov 2007, 12:19 pm

Vote.



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04 Nov 2007, 12:42 pm

To be honest, brainwashed atheists are even worse than brainwashed religious people.



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04 Nov 2007, 12:55 pm

Reodor_Felgen wrote:
To be honest, brainwashed atheists are even worse than brainwashed religious people.

because they mock on other's believes? 8O


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04 Nov 2007, 12:58 pm

Nagy wrote:
Reodor_Felgen wrote:
To be honest, brainwashed atheists are even worse than brainwashed religious people.

because they mock on other's believes? 8O


No, because they are annoying, and doesn't understand what "mind your own buisness", "I didn't ask for your opinion" or "shut the f... up!" means. I have yet to meet an intelligent brainwashed atheist, allthough I know many intelligent normal atheists.



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04 Nov 2007, 1:00 pm

Reodor_Felgen wrote:
Nagy wrote:
Reodor_Felgen wrote:
To be honest, brainwashed atheists are even worse than brainwashed religious people.

because they mock on other's believes? 8O


No, because they are annoying, and doesn't understand what "mind your own buisness", "I didn't ask for your opinion" or "shut the f... up!" means. I have yet to meet an intelligent brainwashed atheist, allthough I know many intelligent normal atheists.


I can't agree more :D


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04 Nov 2007, 1:11 pm

Great poll :roll:



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04 Nov 2007, 1:55 pm

Atheist.

What an easy poll for me. ;)



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04 Nov 2007, 2:02 pm

I'd like somebody to explain to me how it is possible to be brainwashed into Atheism.

Atheism is the belief that no god exists because there is NO proof that a god does exist, calling someone a brainwashed Atheist is like calling someone brainwashed because they believe in gravity.



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04 Nov 2007, 2:08 pm

elvenmage wrote:
I'd like somebody to explain to me how it is possible to be brainwashed into Atheism.

Atheism is the belief that no god exists because there is NO proof that a god does exist, calling someone a brainwashed Atheist is like calling someone brainwashed because they believe in gravity.


it is not as easy and simple as you put it
you said there is no proof that God exists, but a lot of people would disagree with you about this
there are things that doesn't have easy explaination (like gravity), things beyond the knowledge of the materialistic world
and as someone told me once (when I was an atheist) in a world full of relativities , we need a constant :)


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04 Nov 2007, 2:14 pm

Reodor_Felgen wrote:
I didn't ask for your opinion


By clicking on my thread you automatically asked for my opinion.



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04 Nov 2007, 2:22 pm

elvenmage wrote:
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I didn't ask for your opinion


By clicking on my thread you automatically asked for my opinion.


No, I didn't. I asked for an objective and serious poll were people could vote if they were theists or atheists.
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A brainwashed atheist is a person who is fanatically obsessed with yelling out loud that he's an atheist.



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04 Nov 2007, 2:23 pm

Hehe, good one.

I was raised atheistically. I never even knew there was such a thing as religion until I met religious people or saw them on TV. Is that brain washing?

Anyway, agree that certain atheistic groups are way over the top. Like the ones who ridicule all spirituality and try changing other people's minds. I believe religion is something of a biologically enhanced mass illusion, but no one can disprove the existence of gods... So why try? Religion and science simply don't have anything to do with each other in an educated society, and they intermingle perfectly where fundamentalism doesn't prevail.

I guess you can call an atheist a fundamentalist if he acts like one. And all fundamentalism is irrational.



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04 Nov 2007, 2:34 pm

elvenmage wrote:
I'd like somebody to explain to me how it is possible to be brainwashed into Atheism.

Atheism is the belief that no god exists because there is NO proof that a god does exist, calling someone a brainwashed Atheist is like calling someone brainwashed because they believe in gravity.


There's no proof of The Big Bang
There's no proof that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs
There's no proof that this world is real
There's no proof that a comet struck Siberia in 1908
etc.

There's a lot of things that can't be proved.



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04 Nov 2007, 2:53 pm

Reodor_Felgen wrote:
elvenmage wrote:
I'd like somebody to explain to me how it is possible to be brainwashed into Atheism.

Atheism is the belief that no god exists because there is NO proof that a god does exist, calling someone a brainwashed Atheist is like calling someone brainwashed because they believe in gravity.


There's no proof of The Big Bang
There's no proof that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs
There's no proof that this world is real
There's no proof that a comet struck Siberia in 1908
etc.

There's a lot of things that can't be proved.


Doesn't mean it's true.



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04 Nov 2007, 2:56 pm

elvenmage wrote:
Reodor_Felgen wrote:
elvenmage wrote:
I'd like somebody to explain to me how it is possible to be brainwashed into Atheism.

Atheism is the belief that no god exists because there is NO proof that a god does exist, calling someone a brainwashed Atheist is like calling someone brainwashed because they believe in gravity.


There's no proof of The Big Bang
There's no proof that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs
There's no proof that this world is real
There's no proof that a comet struck Siberia in 1908
etc.

There's a lot of things that can't be proved.


Doesn't mean it's true.


and doesn't mean it's not true, see, it's a world of possibility, you have all rights to believe or not, but you have no right to force this belief on others :)


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04 Nov 2007, 3:31 pm

I'm atheist (don't believe in god, afterlife, supernatural), but that only says what I don't believe in, not what I do believe in. That's why there is talk about brainwashed atheists, because just because you don't believe doesn't make you a better person. I am sympathetic to Ayn Rand and Objectivism, while some Atheists are Communist. So it doesn't mean all atheists are comrades, either.