hopefulLandlord:


Bros, this is a very tricky question

I can't disprove your god, same way you can't disprove the invisible pink unicorn, flying spaghetti monster etc

But that you can't doesn't mean they exist either

Its a catch 22 for both theists and atheists

ayobase:


So you think or know there could be God.

4everGod:


[b]You should tell science to keep you alive for another 90 yrs so you will see how much bigger Christianity would be by then and then when you close your eyes in the sleep of death you would be left with this question nagging your mind;

If you lived to be 90 or 100 yrs and the Gospel never diminished but rather it waxed stronger what are the odds that in 3 centuries to come it would vanish altogether.

The loss is actually on you so start praying to science immediately[/b]

hopefulLandlord:


Bros, this is a very tricky question

I can't disprove your god, same way you can't disprove the invisible pink unicorn, flying spaghetti monster etc

But that you can't doesn't mean they exist either

Its a catch 22 for both theists and atheists

KingEbukasBlog:


On your own


How so ?


Please be specific when you say religion . It is fallacious to generalize - overlooking other facts that refute the generalization because you want a particular type of conclusion to be made .

Christianity has no bad effects . Any ideology that Christian inherently deprecates is simply not of Christianity . The crusaders , KKK and all worth not will surely rot in Hell if they died as sinners because God does not approve of their despicable repugnant activities .



Hell is a deterrent and deterrents restrain you from aberration . If you are serial killer then I don't see how the fear of Hell "checked" you



I consider Christianity as a lifestyle and a religious affiliation . We all know the religions that can be used to manipulate the masses .



False prophets and false religion are thriving because of the illiteracy level and this is outlandish indeed - its 2016 for God's sake . The main problems with this country are leadership , illiteracy and employment , not religion.

Norway , Ireland ,Switzerland , Italy , England , USA , Germany etc have been with Christianity for years and they are doing so fine . Russia abandoned atheism and flourished immediately . If you are with Christ and you are not doing well know that its your fault - James 2:14-26, Faith without works is dead

N[b]orth Korea have been with atheism since 1968 and are floundering . A[/b]theistic ideologies are being used to brainwash and control the public and keep them in check . Do you know the kind of malevolence shown to the religious in North Korea ? My God ! Check out this site http://northkoreanchristians.com

Thank God I remembered this : Please Nairalanders , there are only three official atheist countries in the world - China , North Korea and Cuba

A secular country is not an atheist country . Online polls on religious affiliations are not valid data and a religiously unaffiliated person is not an atheist .

Thank you !

raphieMontella:


no according to ur bible god can..nd science cant..theres a place which said smtin like that..
After all metusalah is the guiness book world record holder for longest years(almost a millenium lol)...so if metusaleh can do it..god can do it for u..ask him for that...

in those days how many unreligious persons were they?
When did man pick up courage to start questioning dogma?
The tin is that religions(mainly christians) like to be faster than their shadows..thats how u'd expect a scientist to create a planet or a sun for u in the lab jst because they have observed how it forms..time will tell

the loss in on u to pray to god to create horses that can fly into space..he did it alot in the bible...and that u shud stop using ur phone to make calls etc lest u worship science...since if u believe in god u dnt need to use ur phone..all u need to do is pray nd the thread u want to create will magically create on nairaland..
He can do it..he made a snake talk..remember?
#delusion

ayobase:



Many of you have been quoting great philosophers of centuries ago to buttress your claim.

I am also quoting my Lord, Jesus Christ, the I am that I am, the prince of peace, the author and finisher of my faith, who was and is and is to come, the Messiah...

He says, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one can see the father except through me"

For me to prove if He exists, you must be very versed in histories and believe they happened, just as you do quote once existed atheists, who you don't where they are as we discuss, but my Jesus said He is going to prepare a place for me.

To prove if He exists, answer this questions as well versed you are in histories/occurrences and researches;

1. Do you know the Isrealites were once captives in the land of Egypt, and do you know how they were set free?

2. Do you know a man called Jesus Christ who was around more than 2000 years ago who died and resurrected the third day

If you don't know of those as history claims, but you know and read of some who didn't believe God exists, then I rest my case.

And if you know of those, but still believe they are all lies and religious propaganda, but you believe in those who said God exists not, then I still rest my case.

God bless you and make His face shine upon you.

winner01:
All the techonological gadgets you are screaming was motivated by theists.

Which place in the bible confirms your first paragraph.
You people should just keep crying angrily, religion has been attacked since the 14th century and been predicted to die off even before the16th century. This is the 21st century and more than 3/4 of the worlds population is still religious, and the number has been predicted to increase over the next 70 years. Seems to me like you will be crying for a really long time.

Seun:
I was asked to repond to nairababe's post.

I did. But I want to try to avoid focusing on any particular religion.

I can promise that a lot of things in your life will get better when you abandon the incorrect religious beliefs that you're holding on to. I can also promise you that some things will get worse, such as your relationship with religious people, especially those who have authority over you. This doesn't really matter if you're a person like me who values the truth. I have to be an atheist because there's no evidence for any God.

Of course we should seek pleasure over pain! Why would you seek pain? Are you a masochist? Even masochists seek pleasure, through pain. From the evolutionary POV, the reason why we find certain things pleasurable is that those things, e.g. food, companionship, sex, are generally good for us (or more specifically, the survival of our genes). Painful and unpleasant things, such as fire, hunger, and fractured bones, are generally bad for us. What sets us above most animals is not masochism but the ability to delay some pleasure today in order to enjoy greater pleasure, or avoid great pain, later. Indiscriminate unprotected sex could be pleasant, but we are intelligent enough to foresee that it may lead to the prolonged pain of unwanted pregnancies and STDs, so we might ****** instead, which is less pleasurable but safer. Seeking pleasure does not always imply selfishness. Altruism is pleasant. Knowing that someone is having a good life because of you is very nice.

Contentment is a form of pleasure too. You work hard to have a successful and interesting life, so when you're old you can look back with pride.

Most cases of euthanasia I've heard about involve people who are terminally ill with cancer. It's not comparable to the blood transfusion issue.

My focus on Nigeria is a feature, not a bug.

Some religions are responsible for a lot of great music and art, which atheists shamelessly enjoy, but in other religions they are severely restricted.

I didn't say that all religions believe in the afterlife. I said many religious people believe in the afterlife, which is true both locally and globally. Most do.

The wording of my original statement was wrong.It now says that religious people often choose to live miserable lives in exchange for paradise. This is true. Most religious people's lives are not so bad because they disobey their religions when it suits them. Wise, but dishonest.

As above; it also applies to the US


Medical doctors only resort to placebos when they can't find anything biologically wrong with you. Placebos work by making you feel more optimistic. It's irresponsible to prescribe a placebo when there's something that is actually physically wrong with the patient. If people are dying they should spend their time resting and putting their affairs in order. It's wrong to encourage dying people to put their trust in a placebo.

As above; it also applies to the US.

As I said, many religious people are opposed to those precautionary measures because they think it will encourage sex, which they think is bad. Some of the biggest religious organizations are opposed to condoms and all contraceptives for this reason. A lot of people have gotten in trouble with religious people because condoms were found in their possession, instead of being given pats in the back for being responsible.

What the Bleep is sexual accountability? Isn't God going to judge her in your imaginary afterlife? Why not leave the judgment to God? When you force a woman to have a baby she doesn't want, you're punishing the baby as well. That's despicable. A baby is not a punishment for being a slut i.e. a woman who like sex. A baby is a person who deserves to be desired and loved by the people who brought him/her into the world. If you must punish a woman for having sex, by all means feel free to spank her 12 times on the bum after the early stage abortion. The same unfortunate sexual accountability logic is what some religious people are using as the basis for their illogical opposition to contraceptives.

All these things are dramatically reduced by the consistent use of condoms and not having sex with careless people. Except sexual depravity. WTF is that? Abstinence doesn't work because of the "body no be wood" phenomenom. We're biologically programmed to crave sex. Those who rely on abstinence often end up having unsafe sex and suffering the consequences while those who practice safe sex have a good time.

They don't want their daughters to learn about sex and condoms because they think knowledge will encourage their daughters to have sex.

In which holy scriptures did you find Indira Gandhi, Marie Curie, Angela Merkel, Naija Babe, and Fatima al-Fihri? Their names are not listed in any holy scriptures I know.

As for the women who appeared in the holy scriptures, why not tell us about their scriptural accomplishments?

naijababe:


Yet more arrogance! One adult sits in his nice little bubble and categorically states that he knows what is better for another. This was how fascism started o. I am a social butterfly, have an amicable relationship with most people I know including here on NL. Some of the people in my private life are adherents of our traditional religions, some are muslims, some are christians. I don't know any atheist personally but I work with a few and have excellent working relationship with them. Like I have told you before, there is world outside of your 'little mind & bubble'.



As I said before, what is pleasurable is not always beneficial! If you don't know that, I can't help you.



You are confused, what if I get the utmost contentment from my faith? Not everyone want to live a life without restraint.



Not comparable, how so? The condition is already terminal, why not wait for nature to take its course.

Even for Nigeria you made and continue to make a lot of blanket statements.



Like ?




Most do?! Seun, do a simple arithmetic on the examples I provided you above, unless of 2 out of 6 is 'most' in your books.



Goal shifting, how nice!



Lol..there is no point just hitting your keyboard if you are unable to comprehend simple sentences. I even told you told you that the 'Amish' go to hospitals, I simply told you that you can't discount prayers because belief is beneficial to the human psyche.



Given pats on the back for being hypocrites? Professing a faith is like being in a marriage, it has benefits and attendant restraints.



Sexual accountability is knowing that as a teenager, having a sexual relationship with anyone has a high probability of leading to a heartbreak or worse pregnancy which has potential to change a young life forever, in fact it will. Or as an adult, there is a high probability someone could get hurt. Feel free to have all the premarital sex you desire but be sure that the other party is aware you are only in it to have a good time. As long as you can do that, I am good. (God knows how many times I have read stories of one party screaming rape because they suddenly desire more than a good time from a sexual encounter).



Bestiality, erotic asphyxiation, coprophilia are examples of sexual depravity, there is in fact one I am trying to remember but can't, it basically involves having sex with frozen poo. Your ignorance of sexual depravity does not mean it does not exist.



I have devout parents who perhaps can be referred to as being old school. I got my first sex education from my mother when I was 11. I have a 9 year old daughter that I have already started having the talk with and I unashamedly admit that she has gotten a PC version so far because I don't believe she is old enough to know all the details. The day she sees her first trickle of menses is when she gets the none PC version. I have also always encouraged them to use the correct names of their sexual anatomy. Ask my 6 year old son why he knows he is a boy and he will tell it is because he has a p3nis not a vag1na.



Were sleeping when you typed 'Religious women can't live up to their full potential'?




You can find out about them the same way you found out about Eve and Delilah or whoever it was you mentioned in your first post.

As I said to you in first response, my position remains the same, I have no interest in telling not to be an atheist but I am against and will fight if I have to your position that atheism is best for because you an atheist. Fascism has been obliterated and freedom lovers like me will do everything we can to keep it that way.

Reyginus:
You are still open minded then so you are not an Atheist in anyway. An atheists mind is completely close on the existence of God. You are agnostic. I can deal with that.

Scratch that. That was too fast. What do you mean when you say you are agnostic towards his nature and atheist towards the human God? What does that really mean?

naijababe:


Yet more arrogance! One adult sits in his nice little bubble and categorically states that he knows what is better for another. This was how fascism started o. I am a social butterfly, have an amicable relationship with most people I know including here on NL. Some of the people in my private life are adherents of our traditional religions, some are muslims, some are christians. I don't know any atheist personally but I work with a few and have excellent working relationship with them. Like I have told you before, there is world outside of your 'little mind & bubble'.



As I said before, what is pleasurable is not always beneficial! If you don't know that, I can't help you.



You are confused, what if I get the utmost contentment from my faith? Not everyone want to live a life without restraint.



Not comparable, how so? The condition is already terminal, why not wait for nature to take its course.

Even for Nigeria you made and continue to make a lot of blanket statements.



Like ?




Most do?! Seun, do a simple arithmetic on the examples I provided you above, unless of 2 out of 6 is 'most' in your books.



Goal shifting, how nice!



Lol..there is no point just hitting your keyboard if you are unable to comprehend simple sentences. I even told you told you that the 'Amish' go to hospitals, I simply told you that you can't discount prayers because belief is beneficial to the human psyche.



Given pats on the back for being hypocrites? Professing a faith is like being in a marriage, it has benefits and attendant restraints.



Sexual accountability is knowing that as a teenager, having a sexual relationship with anyone has a high probability of leading to a heartbreak or worse pregnancy which has potential to change a young life forever, in fact it will. Or as an adult, there is a high probability someone could get hurt. Feel free to have all the premarital sex you desire but be sure that the other party is aware you are only in it to have a good time. As long as you can do that, I am good. (God knows how many times I have read stories of one party screaming rape because they suddenly desire more than a good time from a sexual encounter).



Bestiality, erotic asphyxiation, coprophilia are examples of sexual depravity, there is in fact one I am trying to remember but can't, it basically involves having sex with frozen poo. Your ignorance of sexual depravity does not mean it does not exist.



I have devout parents who perhaps can be referred to as being old school. I got my first sex education from my mother when I was 11. I have a 9 year old daughter that I have already started having the talk with and I unashamedly admit that she has gotten a PC version so far because I don't believe she is old enough to know all the details. The day she sees her first trickle of menses is when she gets the none PC version. I have also always encouraged them to use the correct names of their sexual anatomy. Ask my 6 year old son why he knows he is a boy and he will tell it is because he has a p3nis not a vag1na.



Were sleeping when you typed 'Religious women can't live up to their full potential'?




You can find out about them the same way you found out about Eve and Delilah or whoever it was you mentioned in your first post.

As I said to you in first response, my position remains the same, I have no interest in telling not to be an atheist but I am against and will fight if I have to your position that atheism is best for because you an atheist. Fascism has been obliterated and freedom lovers like me will do everything we can to keep it that way.

Sealeddeal:
I am a polytheist but I don't worship any god. I have freed myself from the scourge of religion. I live in core Northern part of Nigeria and I bet you, OP, you cannot stomach what you will see if you visit there. There, you will see, feel and appreciate the more, the magnitude of darkness that religion has placed man on. Religion of all kind is darkness but what I see here is a severe curse. Humanity is being deprived of its glory because of lies perpetuated in the name of gods. As far as religion live, humanity will not gain its rightful place. Any non religious view of life should be spoken of loudly without fear. I therefore wholeheartedly support your call@ OP

JSoE:
You have made a lot of sense but its not that easy to convince people to see the truth. I'm even finding it difficult to make my sister who is more like my best friend see reasons with me.I can't even tell my mum cos she'll go 'ka-booom!!!' on hearing that I'm now an agnostic. Although I have succeeded in freeing one of my friends from the scourge of religion(a male of course,the females I've tried to convince see me as one crazy bitch),I still wonder how I'll free more people when the extent of their gullibility is unnerving.I won't even bring up the case of northern Nigeria cos that one is a no-go area.
Note:I come from a Christian family from the calmest place in South Eastern Nigeria but I'm sure they'll lose their cool once I start trying to relieve them of their indoctrination.

darkenedrebel:


Seun forgets that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Codedrock:
Seun i am really loving all these your topics oo.. Even though i still believe there is God, i am so against being religious. bro you are really doing a great job with these topics. I think i was already in transition to being an atheist(after i quit church) before you started your Faith related topics and i have been enjoying them, not to mention we reason the same way. I still choose to believe there is God though.
Been seriously studying that Evolution theory but my abstract thinking ability is just so not agreeing with that right now.

Milonis:
Seem like a lot of those who commented are either:

1. Afraid of speaking the truth to the writer for fear of whatever;

2. Delusional like him;

stephenmorris:
it seems this thread aint for you kindly leave our thread alone and don't derail it

timpaker:




[b]That's not true.
The female poets may not be that popular like the men, but there are quite a number of them. At least I have about 3 of them as friends on the most popular social media hub. But we are talking about poetry in Islam and not Islamic female poets.



Just incase you're not satisfied with what I am saying and would want to argue further, here is a piece of poem by a Muslim lady, her name is Jenne Zaghloul (a Convert) and her poem is tagged "I am a Muslim Woman"

I am a Muslim woman
Feel free to ask me why
When I walk,
I walk with dignity
When I speak
I do not lie

I am a Muslim woman
Not all of me you'll see
But what you should appreciate
Is that the choice I make is free

I'm not plagued with depression
I'm neither cheated nor abused
I don't envy other women
And I'm certainly not confused

Note, I speak perfect English
Et un petit peu de Francais aussi
I'm majoring in Linguistics
So you need not speak slowly

I run my own small business
Every cent I earn is mine
I drive my Chevy to school & work
And no, that's not a crime!

You often stare as I walk by
You don't understand my veil
But peace and power I have found
As I am equal to any male!

I am a Muslim woman
So please don't pity me
For God has guided me to truth
And now I'm finally free!

There are countless of them, just because you don't know one does not mean they don't exist.

Even little Malana (I hope she forgives me for calling her that) writes and speak poetry (though I can't find any now, not as if all poetry are written).

Lastly, the religion is not aversive, just that they are mostly conservative. Permit me to ask, have you listened to there songs or you are just basking on your perception about them?

[/b]

naijababe:



Coward! It's meant for people you can pull the wool over their eyes abi?


Have you ever seen me on your threads?. I am not interested in your decision to choose atheism but y'all aren't getting away with 'fascism'. The right to choose to be a person of faith is an unalienable and non-negotiable right of every human. The same way I will speak up against ISIS and KKK is the same way I will speak up against atheist militancy and the crass discrimination dripping from his original post. There is no way I am going to let you get away such dangerous views.

I mean seriously, y'all egg him on with comments like religious women suck and can't live up to their potential. As I said in my first rejoinder, y'all can congregate, speak up against religion but you are not getting with thinking that your choice and way is best for all us.

stephenmorris:
must you always abuse ,i tire for you guys sef

AdamuUcheOla:


I see that you still haven't done your research on North Korea. 2 years ago I said the following to you; still very much applicable.


"On North Korea, you should read more articles. 66 per cent of the popluation are followers of the Juche philsophy which is modeled after modern christainity. As an example they worship the trinity of "Kim Il Sung, the former leader of North Korea who died in 1994, his wife Kim Jung Sook, and his son, Kim Jong Il". You can see a lot more similarities here : http://dotheword.org/2014/03/17/how-is-north-koreas-juche-ideology-similar-to-christianity/."

Modified:
Looks like the link's dead; try this:

http://dotheword.org/2014/03/17/how-is-north-koreas-juche-ideology-similar-to-christianity/

For your reference:
https://www.nairaland.com/1947142/denounce-faith-100-million-naira/12#27180981

naijababe:
@ ikupakuti,

Richard Donkey?! Nuccas can vex sha