ImUrOBGYN Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Pretty interesting article. How an Amazonian tribe turned a missionary into an atheist http://www.freethinker.co.uk/2008/11/08/how-an-amazonian-tribe-turned-a-missionary-into-an-atheist/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 What position is the atheist? I've done missionary but never atheist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewhop Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 What position is the atheist? I've done missionary but never atheist. Win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristy Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 wow thats pretty fucked up that his wife left him and two of his children broke off contact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAOLE Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Wow another religion article not posted by me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff1647545513 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 What position is the atheist? I've done missionary but never atheist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Wow, it's usually christians that turn people into atheists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 wow thats pretty fucked up that his wife left him and two of his children broke off contact. yeah that's not very Christian like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 yeah that's not very Christian like. Yes it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImUrOBGYN Posted November 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Wow another religion article not posted by me. This isn't about you. Leave a topical comment or feel free to exit the thread if it offends you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderboy Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 What position is the atheist? I've done missionary but never atheist. I tried it once, lets just say my hip hasnt moved correctly ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAOLE Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 This isn't about you. Leave a topical comment or feel free to exit the thread if it offends you. I would say he was most likely playing church all those years. God said he will never leave you nor forsake you. Once you are saved, you cant get unsaved. There is my topical comment. Now I await the you, and thorne to cuss me out and tell me that I am pushing my religion on people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5067/jebusng7.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAOLE Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5067/jebusng7.jpg Because no one reads his word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImUrOBGYN Posted November 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 I would say he was most likely playing church all those years. God said he will never leave you nor forsake you. Once you are saved, you cant get unsaved. There is my topical comment. Now I await the you, and thorne to cuss me out and tell me that I am pushing my religion on people. Not gonna happen. This isn't what this thread is about. Take what you want from the article. And how often do I actually cuss you? That's rhetorical, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Denmark and Sweden aren't exceptions. A 2005 study by Gregory Paul looking at 18 democracies found that the more atheist societies tended to have relatively low murder and suicide rates and relatively low incidence of abortion and teen pregnancy. http://www.slate.com/id/2203614/pagenum/all?Paul So, this is a puzzle. If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well—better, in many ways, than devout ones. Meaning societies where people are free to chose, and they choose not to beleive. Commies are omitted, because ntohing good comes from a forced belief-set. The positive effect of religion in the real world, to my mind, is tied to this last, community component—rather than a belief in constant surveillance by a higher power. Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others Getting closer to the point. Religion = good only when everyone beleives the same thing. Community. Scattered individuals who are excluded from communities do not receive the benefits of community, nor do they feel willing to contribute to the communities that exclude them H8'in on athiests and calling them amoral pervs is a self fulfilling prophecy. Thus the rediculous existence of an "Athiest Church", they want to get together. Because no one reads his word.Because nobody wrote them down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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