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I'm doing a survey kind of thing and I want to do a "focus question" for my school assignment about non - religion, so the question for you people is this.
What are the reasons why you *non religious* people follow this belief system? Meaning atheism.
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A belief system is a religion.
Also, you just started a troll thread.
/sarcasm
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OmegaZero_Alpha Wrote:A belief system is a religion.
Also, you just started a troll thread.
*Confused* So anyways why do you people follow atheism?
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Atheism is not a belief system, it is an answer to a philosophical question about the existance for any Gods; You can not "follow" it.
My reason is: Because there is (from what I have seen) a lack of evidence for any Gods.
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BRB-Bowsniping Wrote:Atheism is not a belief system, it is an answer to a philosophical question about the existance for any Gods; You can not "follow" it.
But by believing in something you're following the belief. That's what a belief is.
/sarcasm
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BRB-Bowsniping Wrote:Atheism is not a belief system, it is an answer to a philosophical question about the existance for any Gods; You can not "follow" it.
My reason is: Because there is (from what I have seen) a lack of evidence for any Gods.
OH sorry now I understand, and yeah I know it's not a belief system, I just copy what it said on my assignment sheet *shrugs* All I want to know is why you guys follow atheism, thanks anyways.
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OmegaZero_Alpha Wrote:A belief system is a religion.
Also, you just started a troll thread.
I didn't really started a troll thread, i'm only asking non - religious people to post here, just for the assignment.
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I'm a Nihilist and I don't believe in anything including morals and a purpose to life. Why? I believe logic and reason goes above faith. Also whoever gave you this topic is a massive idiot because most of the papers will be slanderous as shit.
I was a commando you know.
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I'm agnostic, but I'll post anyway. I, like Snarf, put logic and reason above "faith". However, I do think that there is something that current science has yet to explain, but will once our scientific understanding grows. While I don't believe there's a magical sky man living in the clouds, I don't discount other logical, plausible and measurable, possibilities.
And since this will eventually devolve into a troll thread and will get moved to the flame bucket, lets get things started:
I also don't follow religious theory since it was designed to control an educate the idiot masses in things that should have been common sense at the time (e.g. don't eat shell fish or pork 2000 years ago since they'll probably kill you). Now that we have a firmer grasp of the natural world, religion probably should have evolved with that grasp.
Instead, according to a recent Gallup poll that they run every two years, 40% of Americans believe that the sky man created man in it's present form in the last ~10,000 years, and the theory of evolution is wrong. 38% believe that evolution is possible, but that the sky man is actually guiding it along.
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This thread had some interesting belief comments in it:
http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name...highlight=
My piece:
"Reincarnation wholly as a new entity...not really...i believe that our energy may be recycled (as opposed to the matter itself)...and may well be diversified between multiple life forms in varying percentages...whatever form hold the highest percentage, you could be considered 'reincarnated' in that life, however, it is unlikely that the mentioned life form would be made up solely of your energy...
I bounce between this and the belief that everything will go dark and nothing else matters...
-hyden"
