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Permalink Reply by Shabaka Tecumseh on March 4, 2012 at 9:44am

When, why of religion. From Egypt to Greece to Constantine to King James to Martin Luther to Billy Graham.

Carol the "trick" is that there's no trick and the truth is so complex...

 

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Permalink Reply by spiritdragon on March 4, 2012 at 9:48am

I'd touch on science and evidence and imperfect creatures in a supposedly perfectly created world. I'd also talk about the unbelieved gods of all the other religions.

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Permalink Reply by Tyler G on March 4, 2012 at 3:56pm

My question is, Why would a Sunday school teacher want to teach her students about atheism?

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Permalink Reply by Tex on March 4, 2012 at 8:52pm

Yes, its sounds fishy to me too.

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Permalink Reply by Carol Foley on March 4, 2012 at 11:11pm

I trust my friend, she loves me and has never once tried to convert me, she is a bit of a cafeterian in her Christianity.

The way she explained her request to me was that she doesn't approve of Christians who go out into the world dehumanizing anyone who disagrees with them, relationships with god are between one person and their faith and to act otherwise is to not love your neighbor as yourself.

Essentially we all have to share this earth, we may as well not be dicks to eachother about it.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on March 5, 2012 at 1:31am

Your friend sounds like a good person, a rare commodity.

pax vobiscum,
archaeopteryx
www.in-His-own-image.com

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Permalink Reply by Tex on March 6, 2012 at 11:53am

Sounds like your friend has a good heart. I guess that might be a good question for them, WHY do they NEED a relation ship with God in the first place? Love yourself, love the parents that created you, love each other, why does a god even need to enter the picture?

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Permalink Reply by Tex on March 4, 2012 at 8:51pm

If they are armed with baseball bats and pitch forks, try to convey to them that "Atheists", are not the monsters we are portrayed to be by some. We are as loving and caring and as moral as any person that might call themselves a "Christian". That there are good and bad people regardless of their belief or lack of.

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Permalink Reply by redpepper on March 5, 2012 at 9:41am

you can describe what it means for you.  You're not there to preach, I'm pretty sure, nor to convert.  Lest you would probably not have been invited.  

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Permalink Reply by redpepper on March 5, 2012 at 9:48am

I would tell them that for me (regardless of formal definitions, though I think Becca is right-on), I don't believe god exists, then open the floor for questions.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Ellacott on March 5, 2012 at 5:05pm

I would tell those young minds to marginalize any preconceived ideas about god and religion....and the religious indoctrination that is being foisted on them.  Learn to question anything and everything and to think for themselves.......M..

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Permalink Reply by Yahweh on March 6, 2012 at 9:07am

Nothing. Atheism is not something you go preach and spread. That job is taken by religious ones. 

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