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Permalink Reply by Kairan Nierde on October 9, 2011 at 11:33pm

Oooh...so beautiful. 

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Permalink Reply by rhetrix on October 9, 2011 at 3:21pm

people who post stuff like that are just baiting those who don't agree and pandering to those who do agree with them. . .your response will not likely change their pov. . .but if you feel strongly about it then give a logical, thought-out, unemotional answer

 

or you could just "hide" and not have to read that crap :)

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Permalink Reply by Steve on October 9, 2011 at 3:45pm

A weak mind looks for an all encompassing answer.

Fear of the unknown and the unknowable creates the need for those

that are weak minded, to believe in the universal "sky Daddy".

 

I just love the whole intelligent design argument.

Makes about as much sense in explaining something as

why pancakes taste great with butter and maple syrup.

 

The FACT is...no deity was necessary.

Then again...maybe that deity is physics?

More answers are to be found there, then within a bible.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Chris on October 9, 2011 at 6:12pm

On facebook and wherever online I generally ignore things like this. I tend to respond only when someone comments on something I wrote. Stuff like this doesn't really mean anything, at least to me. It's bumper sticker stuff, not philosophically important.

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Permalink Reply by Lewal on October 9, 2011 at 7:17pm

When confronted with things like this, my philosophy is "Temper your integrity with compassion." But when in doubt, I guess I act like someone working in a mental health facility-- let it go if it doesn't harm anyone.

I only really speak up when it concerns children. I'd just about crucify someone for indoctrinating kids because I consider it mutilation and know how sick it makes the world, but short of that I usually just do what some other people posting here do; throw in some short and light sarcasm and go to sleep telling myself that their silliness is dying out with them.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on February 2, 2012 at 3:04pm

And yet, indoctrination doesn't work in the end, does it? Most of us were probably indoctrinated and probably spent some years as believers. It isn't indoctrination which keeps people religious, it's mental inertia and sloth, liking the social aspects of going to church, and of course...fear of death.

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Permalink Reply by Lewal on February 9, 2012 at 12:46pm

Yeah but I'd say the "mental inertia" works in atheism's favor as well. Indoctrination has become exponentially less effective since the dawn of the age of information. The religious teachings being passed down are gradually diluted from generation to generation. People just don't care enough to preserve the teachings in their original context (Islam being the most resilient) because it's just not convenient for anyone living in a society as progressive as ours to go around treating women as if they're inferior, owning slaves, and bashing babies against rocks. It's ironic, but I'd argue that you can thank or blame America's laziness for religion's decline.

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Permalink Reply by Kyle Wilkins on October 9, 2011 at 8:05pm

I can't help but to speak up when someone "flaunts" their religion by attacking someone else's beliefs or lack of beliefs. I find it very easy to hold back when someone says "god bless you" and stuff like that though because they are trying to be sincere to me. The only time I speak up is when someone is attacking someone else's beliefs or when my friends ask me about Atheism and ask me a few questions.

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Permalink Reply by Carol Foley on October 9, 2011 at 11:56pm

I spent years trying to force myself to believe in god, so now 99% of my facebook friends are Xtians. Honestly every single day is filled with this very same degree of shit which I ignore until they bring it on to my wall. At that point I let loose with a flood of pent up rage and frustration.

All in all I just sort of bottle it up until it is too late and then remove them from my friends list.

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Permalink Reply by Gabriel on October 10, 2011 at 2:20am

A facebook "friend" super-christian woman I used to work with posted some idiotic disparaging nonsense about how April 1st was atheist day. I informed her that I was a lifelong atheist and that it was so very christian of her to mock and put down a minority group. I asked her "what happened to the nice person I used to work with?" She responded with an insincere apology and more nonsense about the lord challenging her to acknowledge her mistakes and what amounted to pity for those who did not believe. I realized that the prospect of independent thought was, for this woman, as foreign a concept as subsisting on a diet of acid and broken glass. Most religious people are so fanatical in their beliefs that changing their mind is a physical impossibility - not to mention I would be just as hypocritical as them to try - so I never do.

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Permalink Reply by Seth on October 10, 2011 at 1:39pm

We must handle it the same way they handle it when we post Pro-Athiest pics and links. Silence. My path to Athiesm was my own and no one could change my mind. I imagine their delusion of God and Jesus being real is just as unshakeable and it's better to ignore it. Kinda like dog poop on the sidewalk. Yes it's rude, in bad taste, ill-planned and a nuisance to everyone, but in the end, it will dry up and wither away...sort of like worshipping Zeus.

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Permalink Reply by Sharon P on October 10, 2011 at 4:12pm

A friend of mine posted this on FB as well and I too, said nothing.  I debated over it since it totally makes no sense whatsoever.  I want FB to be a fun place, to catch up with friends and family and I try not to get into debates if I can help it.  It bothered me for a few days and I went back to it, but in the end, I said nothing because I know, that no matter what I said, there would be no "lightbulb" moment for my friend.

 

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