Internet is the biggest library ever built.So i blame no One.
All i know, i believe in GOoD

Although to a certain level atheistic stances lead to some level of religious practice that is not the norm for all...

Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values

One can simply say....i relate my own systems to a view of non-spirituality..but sincerely the conduct of most atheists i've met are not up to par as they make thier atheism seem like an obsession which is mostly ritual-like in nature.

Enigma: ^^^ You always come up with something new and fresh.

cant be no stale diabolic fish like logicboy. always gotta switch it up to keep the demons on their toes

akthedream: So you believe in the existence of Devil?

Yes, I believe in devils. They are called bloodsucking pastors who convince4 people pay tithes and give them false hopes. These pastors go and buy private jets.

buzugee: cant be no stale diabolic fish like logicboy. always gotta switch it up to keep the demons on their toes

Why do u lie?

You are stale as yesterdays weed smoked in a room not ventilated

mkmyers45:

hello? and religion is pasttime for educated ones?

@Bolded

Are you on steroids?

YOU GOT INTO TROUBLE THE DAY YOU EQUATED RELIGION WITH GOD. AS FOR STEROIDS, I AM NOT ON THEM WITH YOU.

I think that notion should be restricted to americans(whites basically) and some few africans. . .well as for me(speaking for myself her) i'm not and will never be an atheist and i'm still very much connected 2 d internet
so there. . .

I think that notion should be restricted to americans(whites basically) and some few africans. . .well as for me(speaking for myself here) i'm not and will never be an atheist and i'm still very much connected 2 d internet
so there. . .

buzugee: you seem to be confused as to the meaning of religion. religion is a term that can be replaced with 'dedication'. anything you religiously devote your time to is your religion. 'sports' is a religion for some people. 'atheism' as practiced on this forum is a religion for some of you people because you are extremely dedicated and devoted to it. if you were not devoted to it you would not spend vast amounts of time being against God. that is a religion. a religion of 'anti-God'. a religion called 'atheism'

Automatically Eastern and African religions are not religions anymore cos they are close and don't do publicity?!

1supremo:
PS: '' The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.''' PSALM 53vs1

i lIke that. . My brother you are blessed

Enigma:


^^^ I have ignored your idiocy for a considerable amount of time as I see you as nothing more than an idiotic conspiracy theory nut. I don't waste much time with your ignorant and concspiracy lunacy type.

Cry baby again.
You always get personal. I have advised you before that It diminishes you soooo much. Bitterness towards an online adversary?How insecure can someone really be?

I 'd like to think that every nairalander is my friend irrespective of their viewpoints on any issue.

I really abhor getting personal. It is just tooooo childish.
Grow up child.
Where is this christian quality that you would prefer all of us to embrace?
Aaahh, Gosh.
I sincerely feel sorry for people who exhude nothing but personal bitterness when it comes to simple discussions.

More than anyone else in this entire forum, YOU use the word" fool" against your fellow nairalanders at any given opportunity.
Is that really the best you can offer? And you call yourself an educated, enlightened christian?
Yuk.
Surely you cannot be a good lawyer. With such much insecurity and bitterness, how would you deal with opposing lawyers and opposing arguments on a daily basis?

The debates between thiests and athiests started long before us and will continue till the end of time.
So this is hardly about differing points of view. No, it is mmostly about a person with a very very low self esteem who has a desprate or even a therapeutic need to call other persons "fool" in order to temporarily shore up his manhood and esteem.
Pity Pity pity.

hmmmmm

shine-eye:


YOU GOT INTO TROUBLE THE DAY YOU EQUATED RELIGION WITH GOD. AS FOR STEROIDS, I AM NOT ON THEM WITH YOU.

The God idea is a religious one, without religion no God. God is the purpose and object of worship and attention, and to draw that is religion.

Logicbwoy:



Yes, I believe in devils. They are called bloodsucking pastors who convince4 people pay tithes and give them false hopes. These pastors go and buy private jets.

its very wrong 2 speak against men of God. . Its true some of them are bad but speaking generally is extremely dangerous. . .DO NOT call upon d wrath of God
B.s:God commanded that you pay thite. . .can someone pls quote d bible there.

plaetton:

Cry baby again.
You always get personal. I have advised you before that It diminishes you soooo much. Bitterness towards an online adversary?How insecure can someone really be?

I 'd like to think that every nairalander is my friend irrespective of their viewpoints on any issue.

I really abhor getting personal. It is just tooooo childish.
Grow up child.
Where is this christian quality that you would prefer all of us to embrace?
Aaahh, Gosh.
I sincerely feel sorry for people who exhude nothing but personal bitterness when it comes to simple discussions.

More than anyone else in this entire forum, YOU use the word" fool" against your fellow nairalanders at any given opportunity.
Is that really the best you can offer? And you call yourself an educated, enlightened christian?
Yuk.
Surely you cannot be a good lawyer. With such much insecurity and bitterness, how would you deal with opposing lawyers and opposing arguments on a daily basis?

The debates between thiests and athiests will started long before us and will continue till the end of time.
So this hardly about differing points of view. No, it is mmostly about a person with a very very low self esteem who has desprate or even therapeutic need call other persons "fool" in order to temporarily shore up his manhood and esteem.
Pity Pity pity.

You are a conspiracy theory nut, simples.

What is more, you are a hypocrite. You come in throwing words at me; I respond with a short post and you are complaining.

Anyway, remember that you still have the advice that I gave to you a loooong time ago.

zameen:
Because its a well established fact that atheists are far far intelligent than religionists!

and this was established when and where?

and when we call you arrogant blowhards you claim we are insulting you abi?

@Enigma
reading this post, is my belief and conviction that creating a different section for athiest being heralded by some is not really in good faith. i will emphasis that let the thread be where they are allowed to come after their object of hate - Jesus Christ.

5. Does God exist? We know God exists because he pursues us. He is constantly initiating and seeking for us to come to him.

I was an atheist at one time. And like many atheists, the issue of people believing in God bothered me greatly. What is it about atheists that we would spend so much time, attention, and energy refuting something that we don't believe even exists?! What causes us to do that? When I was an atheist, I attributed my intentions as caring for those poor, delusional people...to help them realize their hope was completely ill-founded. To be honest, I also had another motive. As I challenged those who believed in God, I was deeply curious to see if they could convince me otherwise. Part of my quest was to become free from the question of God. If I could conclusively prove to believers that they were wrong, then the issue is off the table, and I would be free to go about my life.

I didn't realize that the reason the topic of God weighed so heavily on my mind, was because God was pressing the issue. I have come to find out that God wants to be known. He created us with the intention that we would know him. He has surrounded us with evidence of himself and he keeps the question of his existence squarely before us. It was as if I couldn't escape thinking about the possibility of God. In fact, the day I chose to acknowledge God's existence, my prayer began with, "Ok, you win..." It might be that the underlying reason atheists are bothered by people believing in God is because God is actively pursuing them.

I am not the only one who has experienced this. Malcolm Muggeridge, socialist and philosophical author, wrote, "I had a notion that somehow, besides questing, I was being pursued." C.S. Lewis said he remembered, "...night after night, feeling whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England."

Lewis went on to write a book titled, "Surprised by Joy" as a result of knowing God. I too had no expectations other than rightfully admitting God's existence. Yet over the following several months, I became amazed by his love for me.

shymmex:

Thank you!!

I've always said; atheism = religion on steroids....

Those fools are just living in denial..

Your God is not universal neither is the Bible respected widely, just some ppl's dogma on atheism.

Kay 17:

The God idea is a religious one, without religion no God. God is the purpose and object of worship and attention, and to draw that is religion.

BEFORE RELIGION, GOD EXISTED. AFTER RELIGION, GOD WILL REMAIN. MAY GOD GIVE YOU LIGHT, YOU DWELLER IN DARKNESS.

Kay 17:

The God idea is a religious one, without religion no God. God is the purpose and object of worship and attention, and to draw that is religion.

unconvincing drivel. Religion itself is a creed or set of beliefs in the cause, nature and purpose of the universe. It is not set in stone that it has to involve a God. See that is where you bunch of illiterates get your knickers in a bunch... to your simplistic minds... religion doesnt exist until a "god" is involved.

Well sorry to tell you... atheism is a "religion" that deifies a secularist explanation for the existence and purpose or purposelessness of the universe.

Kay 17:

Automatically Eastern and African religions are not religions anymore cos they are close and don't do publicity?!

I read buzugee's comment 2-3 times, your response is a confusing mumbo jumbo. What exactly where you responding to? where in his quote did you see the need for the term "publicity"?

Enigma:

^^^ Of course they know it ---- that is why many of them say atheism is "lack of belief" (as with dogs and their brother monkeys etc) instead of facing the fact that it is active disbelief.

And for those complaining that calling atheists fools is insulting some anonymous Japanese ----- hmmmmmm calling Nigerians, (identifiable Nigerians with whom you are trying to get in conversation) imbeciles, 'tools', brainwashed etc is praising what percentage of Nigerians exactly?

Dishonest.

Kay 17:

Dishonest.

From you? After this in following link https://www.nairaland.com/978103/religion-atheism-brother/2#11286918

EDITED Link now added; also, if you mean you personally accept that your atheism equates to that of dogs and monkeys I accept that; but you can't pretend to be ignorant of the constant claims of your fellow atheists on the forum!

Christians and muslims, you need to understand why some people reject religion altogether

see

https://www.nairaland.com/972251/understanding-religious-delusion

https://www.nairaland.com/985567/mind-control-mechanisms-religions

davidylan:

unconvincing drivel. Religion itself is a creed or set of beliefs in the cause, nature and purpose of the universe. It is not set in stone that it has to involve a God. See that is where you bunch of illiterates get your knickers in a bunch... to your simplistic minds... religion doesnt exist until a "god" is involved.

Well sorry to tell you... atheism is a "religion" that deifies a secularist explanation for the existence and purpose or purposelessness of the universe.

C'mon Davidylan, what is a secularist explanation for the existence and purpose of the universe and how does or how did atheists Deify such an explanation?

Enigma:


Don't mind the mumus!

As for their flying spaghetti monster etc, see for example https://www.nairaland.com/298119/30-keys-being-effective-atheist/1#9474441

Pls.

Kay 17:

The God idea is a religious one, without religion no God. God is the purpose and object of worship and attention, and to draw that is religion.

hence you want to get the attention/worship He alone deserves, by going after Him with so much passion. Oh what a great race into Him.

zameen:
Because its a well established fact that atheists are far far intelligent than religionists!

puked

davidylan:

unconvincing drivel. Religion itself is a creed or set of beliefs in the cause, nature and purpose of the universe. It is not set in stone that it has to involve a God. See that is where you bunch of illiterates get your knickers in a bunch... to your simplistic minds... religion doesnt exist until a "god" is involved.

Well sorry to tell you... atheism is a "religion" that deifies a secularist explanation for the existence and purpose or purposelessness of the universe.

Cosmology is a religion??

hisblud:
hence you want to get the attention/worship He alone deserves, by going after Him with so much passion. Oh what a great race into Him.

For the meantime, Religion and God are inseparable.

davidylan:

I read buzugee's comment 2-3 times, your response is a confusing mumbo jumbo. What exactly where you responding to? where in his quote did you see the need for the term "publicity"?

Evangelism/publicity is not a qualifier for religion at all.

plaetton:

C'mon Davidylan, what is a secularist explanation for the existence and purpose of the universe and how does or how did atheists Deify such an explanation?

See also - atheist almost slavish worship of the scientific theories they bleat help them eliminate a need for a god. You replace a sky god with an earthly god = religion.