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Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by CAPSLOCKED: 11:59pm On Aug 19, 2017 |
Zenithpeak: I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO LIVE WITH THESE PEOPLE OF GOD, WHOSE CHURCHES SURROUND MY HOUSE. WHOSE AMPS VIBRATE THE WALLS OF MY ROOM. I HATE HOW THEY ONLY COME TO MY HOUSE TO SHARE THE WORD OF GOD AND ASK FOR DONATIONS, NEVER TO ASK OF MY PROBLEMS AND HOW I'M COPING WITH LIFE. I HATE HOW THEY FOCUS ON RUNNING THE BELIEVERS DRY, HOW THESE POOR MARKET WOMEN WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL, ARE MADE TO GIVE WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE RESERVED FOR THEIR FAMILIES BECAUSE THEY WERE TOLD TO SOW IN OTHER TO REAP... ONLY TO GET POORER THE MORE. YOU SEE, GOD'S ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. MEN ARE. 1 Like |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by CAPSLOCKED: 12:09am On Aug 20, 2017 |
StoneColdBiceps: TYPICAL CHRISTIAN. THEY ALWAYS FEEL THEY THEMSELVES ARE RESERVED AND OBLIGATED TO RECEIVE SPECIAL FAVOURS FROM GOD. YOU AND THE REST ARE THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD. 1 Like
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Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by dalaman: 4:28am On Aug 20, 2017 |
StoneColdBiceps: So because your employment status changed that means God? Because a child was running around calling out his name means he was talking to you on behalf of your God? Pastors are always telling people that they'll prosper, so that was just a coincidence to me. Getting a job or having your employment status changed means nothing. It is in places like Nigeria that we take such things seriously. We are so poor that we use simple things like employment as signs of God speaking to us or doing good things in our lives. Go to other countries with advanced systems and see how they take employment as nothing. It is the duty of the system to make sure that it provides a decent employment to a majority of the people. Before I resigned from my Job I was the only person that was taken out of like 7 of us that were invited for the interview. I was also the only athiest. Shortly into the job I also facilitated the selling of a rice milling plant that fetched me lots of money. I had to resigned and open my own medium scale production facility that is doing well. I want to expand it that is why I am here to buy some additional machines. I am not trying to boast but financially I am doing very well. What I earn in a month is very much more than yours as a banker, yet am an atheist that doesn't believe in any God. I've been preveilage to grow up in a rich family as well. I have beaten cancer as an atheist, something that has killed and is killing many many people. Once it was discovered in its early stages, I allowed the excellent medical system they had in Germany to do its wonders on me. 3 years down the line I was declared cancer free and I came back to Nigeria shortly after. I know many believers that died of the same ailment. I never prayed when I had the disease, never did any spiritual excercise, continued to mock the God idea anytime I saw fit. If it were a christian that survived the way I did, they'll go and do thanksgiving, give credit to their God for saving their life, say that it is one of the goodness and miracles of their God, might even write a book on how God saved them from the shadows of death bla bla bla. If there is a God that speaks to people it will be the way we speak to each other as humans not through the joke you just alluded to. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by 1Sharon(f): 3:00am On Aug 21, 2017 |
Why was hopefullandlord's reply to me hidden? |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by hopefulLandlord: 4:44am On Aug 21, 2017 |
1Sharon:is it? https://www.nairaland.com/3995671/ex-theists-atheists-how-did-view/9#59613855 |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by spacetacular(f): 10:19am On Aug 26, 2017 |
KingEbukasBlog: Well i am a bit weary from reading so many mentions and trying to understand the reason for all the mentions but let me quickly say that yes questioning religious beliefs does not make anyone an atheist. Let me stop at that. Today is my off day so that means my rest day. Just came on to look around. 2 Likes |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by Martinez19(m): 6:48pm On Oct 24, 2017 |
I saw atheists as people who were not serious or people who "just missed it." 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by ScienceWatch: 4:03pm On Dec 31, 2017 |
edicied:Yes, wise persons must take Kingebukasblog, Vaxx, Butterflyl1on, Sonofthunder, Analize701, Felixomor and maybe Exciton very serious or else we will all end up on Mars. Atheist scientists at NASSA has kept their search for NO-god under wraps by lying to the public that they were searching for Aliens. They presented scientific evidence to Atheists to prove that NO-god rules planet Mars. Mars has no Ozone layer, no water, no plants, no, animals or birds. The soil is dangerous and corrosive. Many doubtful Atheists needed more evidence and asked if Mars had oxygen. Scientists came back to them and proved that Mars indeed had no oxygen. The Atheists were excited for the first time, because of the long awaited conclusive proof that a creator God can never exist on Mars. Atheists are flocking to colonize Mars and live in Space suits to be near their NO-god. But be warned, they will continue to troll religious topics from Mars. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by ScienceWatch: 10:32am On Jan 01, 2018 |
Martinez19:HaHaaaaaaaa! LOL Hic Haaa. Martinez19 you are one of two of the worlds most honest Atheists. You reveal, what few atheists will admit to the world. You say that you decided to become an Atheist because you correctly realized that they were not serious people and that "they just missed it." I will say no more for now. World religions, please join us here. You will be amazed at the change of our new rules of engagement. You simply ask the questions and Atheists answer. If they ask you a question you dont answer, you keep on asking questions for ever and ever. World religions, please be patient because these rules are brand new to Atheists. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by ScienceWatch: 10:54am On Jan 01, 2018 |
IT IS NOW 2018. WHAT DOES ATHEISM HAVE TO OFFER HUMANITY? So far all I see is mental gymnastics with no power to elevate humanity. Examine just one of the many powerful and eternally beneficial benefits the might Jesus offered; In Israelite law, adultery was indeed restricted to actions that involved a married woman—that is (from the male lover's point of view), somebody else's wife. In Mathew 5:27-28, however, Jesus was not talking about men's attitude to other men's wives; rather, he was talking about men's attitudes to women. He didn't say, "Whoever looks at another man's wife to covet her . . ."; rather, he said, "whoever looks at a woman to covet her . . ." the Greek word epithymeo, translated in the King James Version and New King James Version as "lust for," is the same word that the Septuagint uses in its rendering of the tenth commandment: "You shall not covet. . . ." This transition from "other men's wives" to "women" represents a fundamental shift in Atheistic perspective which is a sore point with them because of their love for child pornography and prostitution. Thus, Jesus was not only putting a special emphasis on "the psychological predisposition of the heart" but also shifting the emphasis from a man's acts that involved the wife of another man to a man's acts (including mental acts) that involved a woman. Looking at a woman as if she were an object was wrong, not because this "object" (if married) belonged to another man but because a woman was not to be treated in this way in any case. Jesus offered powerful protection for women, because a woman was not to be treated in this way. On the other hand, the prophet of Atheism Richard Dawkins is happy encourage the legalization of marriage between two woman. This is Atheism's offer to humanity. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by ScienceWatch: 11:22am On Feb 10, 2018 |
KingEbukasBlog:From my personal experience. I find what you say to be absolutely true. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by superhumanist(m): 11:25am On Feb 10, 2018 |
ScienceWatch: you are still here? I thought that you overdosed on tramadol. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by ScienceWatch: 12:00pm On Feb 10, 2018 |
superhumanist:The first thing I did when I came back after posting my views on many blogs on Humanists, Atheists and agnostics (which in essence is the same thing) was to see if you succeeded in something you moan about all the time. I see no positive action from you, only more moaning. What drug are you using? Could it be FLAKKA ? |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by ScienceWatch: 12:20pm On Feb 10, 2018 |
butterflylion:Be careful with this one. Frank and BudaAtum are cowardly banners when they cant take the heat. They will mock others revered and holy scriptures with impunity. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by budaatum: 7:27pm On Feb 13, 2018 |
You point out why I like Islam! And why Christianity hates it for most. It does have a tendency to make one look closer. dalaman:I do like Christianity too. Just not the believing sort Nigerians and those Americans, do. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by budaatum: 7:34pm On Feb 13, 2018 |
dalaman:Bubble? I don't light a lamp and hide it in a clay jar or put it under my bed. I put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. I want them to abandon their gods and join my atheism. I'm no different. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by budaatum: 7:45pm On Feb 13, 2018 |
Kind of shows why you atheists ought to be kinder to believers. Imagine how difficult it is to get over the fact you've been assisting to deceive yourself for so long! The dissonance that occurs when light first shines in is so traumatic that the individual has to relearn what it means to be human. No wonder they cover their eyes so they don't see. Jesus said [though], "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. And after they have reigned they will rest." Antiparticle: |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by budaatum: 8:16pm On Feb 13, 2018 |
hopefulLandlord:I was fortunate not to have religion mixed with my breast. I first met believers when I was 7 and a group of them said oyinbo rats talk. I understood how their minds worked and how I differed when they pointed to Tom and Jerry on telly. It's been an interest ever since. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by Nobody: 9:07pm On Mar 27, 2020 |
I was born into a Christian home. I'd also wanted to "get closer to God". But I simply got tired of repeating the same things to a God whose identity remained impossible to accurately decipher before I even stumbled upon the word "Atheist'. In other words,everything in the Bible about Yahweh ceased to make sense to me cos I actually tried to assess the significance of everything in it about Yahweh at the age of 21 years or I simply went deeper in thought concerning these things. I was never a fundamentalist or a person who is unwilling to assess his faith,anyway. |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by Nobody: 9:56pm On Mar 27, 2020 |
I was born bread and brought up in a religious home. Though i always think of how to get closer to my Creator, but whenever i see people who also feel the same way and i try to move closer to them, i often find out that we don't really share the same idea as i thought! Majority of religionists are people who have been oppressed one way or the other and so they're only anticipating their turn to oppress others. And they feel like God should support them in fulfilling this unusual dream! You can imagine a religionist saying during prayer "ìran méta kìí tòsì, olúwa àsìkò mi ti tó" Meaning "how long will my lineage continue to slave for others?, God it's time to change this destiny" In other words, he wasn't praying to God for equity but for his own turn to oppress others as his own family has always been on the lowly side! This is the type of prayers i keep hearing from all the religions around me, so i began considering atheism for a change. The only thing that discouraged me from being an atheist is the fact that atheists are not self reliant, they always look onto the religionist to assure themselves of been mentally balance. Then i met the true Christians! I tried to measure their intelligence by asking them thought provoking question i've asked religionists in the past, but i was shocked to know that TRUE Christianity has nothing to do with self assuming and ego. In fact being a Christian means giving your fellow man the best position while you humbly take the second position even when you have all what it takes to rule him! That's when i realized that this is what i've been searching for all my life! Now if i found someone claiming he is an atheist, i just pity them because i know he or she has nothing to say than comparing his brains with that of misinformed religionists NOT with TRUE Christians! Whenever an atheist come face to face with a REAL Christian, no matter his age, educational background and social status, he/she will continue to feel like "No matter what you've got to say, i'm not going back to religion" The usual feeling that their mentally fit much more than religionists disappear immediately! |
Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by The5DME(m): 8:09am On Oct 04, 2022 |
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Re: Ex-theists/atheists, How Did You View Atheists When You Were A Theist? by LordReed(m): 11:01am On Oct 04, 2022 |
To be honest I didn't know much about atheists before I became one. I had aways believed in a god and moreso when I became "born again" so the concept of not believing was alien. So alien I never really thought about it or about atheists. In all my years growing up I had only 1 somewhat personal encounter with an atheist and that was during my uni days. The encounter was too brief for me to even form any sort of view of atheists. My first real dose of atheists was on Nairaland here and it was kind of a shock really. I thought these guys were just not informed enough about the Bible and God that's why they are that way. But the interaction made me take hard looks at my beliefs and ultimately discard them so here I am, an atheist. I think if I had known more about atheism earlier on I probably would have been one much earlier. 2 Likes 1 Share |
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