mick
20th April 2009, 07:50 PM
A big g'day to my fellow non-believers,
I'm a proud atheist from the Central Coast of NSW. I was raised Catholic; both in the home and during my K-12 education. I was baptised and christened without my consent. With that said, I'm the only atheist in a long line of Catholic ignorance.
I broke free from the choking collar of religion at an early age, begging the questions that family and teachers could only answer with one of two phrases: "Because it was God's will.", or "Stop asking so many questions; with curiosity like yours you'll end up in hell."
At every chance I get, I debate religion with devout theists, often leaving them flabbergasted with no logical or rational counter-arguments except the typical (and somewhat predictable) "Well, I still believe because my faith in Jesus is unconditional". With a chuckle I leave the debate knowing that I've won.
I don't promote, condone, or applaud hatred or anger to those that do believe supernatural-imaginary-friends. I think as an atheist I have a responsibility to speak my mind in a 'nice', yet unrelenting manner; arguing with a smile and a 'tell-me-more-because-I'm-interested-in-your-bleeding-ignorance' demeanor. Yet I find it hard not to laugh uncontrollably when someone genuinely believes in virgin-birth, resurrection, miracles, and every word in a book written thousands of years ago by primitive, scienceless, people.
I have a solution for the problems people are predicting that the Rudd money (you know, the $900 payout to struggling Australians) will cause: remove tax exempt status from ALL religions in this country. Not only will it put the money back into the country, but it will remove a HUGE percentage of the money being spent on hate, ignorance, and (of course) the brain-washing that is pushed on children and the uncharacteristically weak (those who are suffering from some sort of traumatising incident).
Anyway, that's enough of a rant for a first post/introduction. I plan to be active here, and hope to enjoy conversing with like-minded people. Thanks for reading,
mick.
I'm a proud atheist from the Central Coast of NSW. I was raised Catholic; both in the home and during my K-12 education. I was baptised and christened without my consent. With that said, I'm the only atheist in a long line of Catholic ignorance.
I broke free from the choking collar of religion at an early age, begging the questions that family and teachers could only answer with one of two phrases: "Because it was God's will.", or "Stop asking so many questions; with curiosity like yours you'll end up in hell."
At every chance I get, I debate religion with devout theists, often leaving them flabbergasted with no logical or rational counter-arguments except the typical (and somewhat predictable) "Well, I still believe because my faith in Jesus is unconditional". With a chuckle I leave the debate knowing that I've won.
I don't promote, condone, or applaud hatred or anger to those that do believe supernatural-imaginary-friends. I think as an atheist I have a responsibility to speak my mind in a 'nice', yet unrelenting manner; arguing with a smile and a 'tell-me-more-because-I'm-interested-in-your-bleeding-ignorance' demeanor. Yet I find it hard not to laugh uncontrollably when someone genuinely believes in virgin-birth, resurrection, miracles, and every word in a book written thousands of years ago by primitive, scienceless, people.
I have a solution for the problems people are predicting that the Rudd money (you know, the $900 payout to struggling Australians) will cause: remove tax exempt status from ALL religions in this country. Not only will it put the money back into the country, but it will remove a HUGE percentage of the money being spent on hate, ignorance, and (of course) the brain-washing that is pushed on children and the uncharacteristically weak (those who are suffering from some sort of traumatising incident).
Anyway, that's enough of a rant for a first post/introduction. I plan to be active here, and hope to enjoy conversing with like-minded people. Thanks for reading,
mick.