Happy International Atheist Day, March 23

[Maintainin]

Read this in early 90s, hilariously funny satire.

 

[SebastianBlue]

At least they believe in something I suppose, what an odd thing to celebrate.

As odd as making 24 March Bluemoon Hilts Day.

Still don’t know what @Ric was thinking there.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Ye, agreed. Read a few, Christopher hitchens did a good one as well.

Stephen Fry has also given belting talks (and participated in debates) on the subject.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Finally, a god that is worthy of worship.

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I can say that the residents of the state in which I now reside have been worshiping the great Lobster in the sea for centuries.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I don't believe in god but to me there is nothing more annoying than a professional atheist, nobody cares mate. Some of the most smug people you will ever meet

Almost as bad as the professional Christians.

 

[SebastianBlue]

All these Atheists clearly never watched Kinkladze playView attachment 111386

No need to bring our lord and saviour Julian Alvarez in to the debate.

 

[Maintainin]

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Dawkins is an exceptional writer. The Greatest Show on Earth is essential reading for everyone.

I used to be an atheist, and read his work when I was. As I've gotten older I've leaned more towards agnosticism; primarily because we don't have definitive answers, and we never will have definitive answers. I think the issue is people conflate spiritual belief with religious fanaticism. But you can believe in omnipotent power and not regiment your life slavishly to scripture and church attendance.

Interestingly, I would say I am in exactly the same boat as you and agree with everything you've said, but I would still describe myself as an atheist.

You can be agnostic and atheist at the same time, they're not mutually exclusive - in fact I'd wager most atheists are agnostic. The people who profess definitively that there is no god with 100% certainty are what I would call antitheists or "strong atheist" as Dawkins would call it and I don't really know of many of those as that's a fairly extreme position to take. Dawkins doesn't even class himself as one.

I think the fact we're all using different words to describe the same things really doesn't help in this arena.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

At least they believe in something I suppose, what an odd thing to celebrate.

No more odd than celebrating Christmas.
When a person who never lived wasn't born

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

I thought about an international premature ejaculation date but was not sure if many could last that long.

I'm in.........