₦airaland Forum

Rilwayne001:
Somebody watch out for Jackbizzle, the guy is a militant atheist too.

Not every atheist is a terrorist though, but all terrorist are atheist.

KingEbukasBlog:
A Christian is simply a follower of Christ . This has been interpreted in various forms - it may or may not incorporate the view that Christ is divine or a deity . Arianism , which is in fact a Christian doctrine though considered heretical , that Christ is divine but not a deity - this view does not mean an Arian isn't a Christian .

Atheism is the rejection of deification of an entity and with this definition an atheist can reject the deification of Christ but still follow his moral teachings and/or his way of life that does not involve God like his life of austerity , his life of pacifism or deprecation for violence etc . There are already atheist Christians - its a thing whether you like it or not .

KingEbukasBlog:
@4kings

Atheism is the opposite of Theism not Religion . Religion is not theism neither is it atheism . Religion can involve atheists , theists , agnostics etc .

KingEbukasBlog:
Christianity is based on the life of Christ . If you don't see Christ as a deity but as a human like Confucius , you can have an atheistic stance on the religion .

You really don't have anything new to offer I can see that clearly .

KingEbukasBlog:
There are christian atheists , there are Jewish atheists , there are Hindu atheists , there are Wiccan atheists etc. And these religions have deities as their central figures .

By the way , where do you people see 'religion' in the definition of atheism ?

KingEbukasBlog:
Atheism does not reject religion , there are religious atheists. Ignorant atheists at it again .

butterflyl1on:
Hell yeah! Atheism is STUPID and is obviously what made you dumbbizzle .

The only religion that is growing based on high number of births is ISLAM and that is based on high number of wives per male Muslim. Get your facts right and stop spreading your dumboism around.

The rest of your comment needs no response because as always they lack merit. However regarding your number 4 comment I suppose nairaland with her less than 2 million population of which a lot of the monikers are actually known as 1 person owning an average of 2 monikers to their name which would mean that the actual number of nairalanders would be less than 1 million if a strict 1 person, 1 moniker policy is applied yet you say religious people are leaving in droves

By the time 1 religious person is leaving religion on nairaland then 50,000 to 100,000 is being added to religion via conversion at the same time elsewhere.

The figures for atheism are too low to even loose sleep over. you guys are like a fart in a hurricane.

4kings:
Why do you have Cesare Borgia's picture in your house?
just asking...

butterflyl1on:
Vacuums are meant to be filled. Any absence of one thing means something else has to replace it. This thread is not about any of Christianity or Hinduism or Taoism etc getting credence (stop trying to shift the goalpost as always)

It's simply a credible empirically submitted report about the massive decline of atheism worldwide. If people are dumping it this quickly it simply shows that :

1. People naturally do not want to be associated with stupid things for long

2. People are prone to change and often times would prefer better to worse

3. Self examination forces change. In this case, self examination exposes an emptiness in atheism and since everyone feels a need for love (which atheism often denies) they would gravitate towards the light and away from the cold darkness.

4. Atheism is a transit point do is extremely temporal.

bloodofthelamb:
GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAYS... WHEN DID GOD SAY, HE WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAYS?

OP, ALL WHAT YOU LISTED ARE OPINIONS OF PEOPLE...GOD WILL REMAIN MYSTERIOUS TO US WHEN WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND GOD BY OURSELVES, OUR HEADS, MIND AND REASONING...

UNDERSTANDING OF GOD CAN ONLY COME FROM GOD HIMSELF, WHEN WE HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE HIM THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND. HE WILL TEACH US HIS ETERNAL WAYS AND MAKE US WISE.HALLELUYAH!

dalaman:
He won't. He prefers running around chasing his long tail.

kingvicky:
This is why the Bible is florid.... It uses anthropomorphic concepts to expound on general truths since our perceptions are but microcosmic bits.... The whole "panorama" of the divine is rather stupefying when considered in its innateness...

dalaman:
Will you stop your fallacies. If man is hard wired to be religious then which religion is he hard wired to believe in?

If you say that man is hard wired to be superstitious then I will agree with you but religious? That remains a lie. Religion isn't natural to man but being superstitious I believe is natural to man.

KingEbukasBlog:
There are atheists in religion and even though deism rejects religion , there are some deistic beliefs that were already religious . Eg the classical deist believed in after-life and some kind of reward-punishment system that would be used by God to judge man . Some can have personal and transpersonal relationship with God - some people can consider this to be a religious way of life.

Many who are unaffiliated don't identify with any particular religion but this does not mean they won't have even a smattering of beliefs that one can consider as religious .

And studies have revealed that atheists born in atheist homes abandon atheism later in life lending credence to the what I mentioned earlier about man being hard-wired to be religious (atheism used here to refer to the irreligion )

KingEbukasBlog:
Atheists were 4.5 percent of the world population as at 1970 and the population of the world has doubled since then and by 2020 , the atheist population will be 1.8 percent of the world population.

If you don't know that that's a massive decline then you need to stop mentioning me my brother.

KingEbukasBlog:
Why are you slow like this na . You no dey try sef . The percentage of atheists in the world will be smaller when compared to the percentage of atheists in the world in the future and that's the decline .

KingEbukasBlog:
Im yet to see any atheist intellectually dominate me but if imagining that excites you as well then I'll let you have it .

When compared to the global population , they are in a massive decline . I also understand that comprehending English is not your strong suit , so you can take all the time bro .

KingEbukasBlog:
After you were demolished on this thread, you still have the audacity to show face eh ? It titliates you when you are being mortified right ?

4kings:
Funny thread.
KingEbukasBlog seems desperate.

hopefulLandlord:
Let's kill them!!!!!

HALAMADRID!!!!! y NADA MAS!!!!

budaatum:
That's exactly my point. Thanks for seeing it.

By the way, muslim feminism is possible and desirable. It is a position that fights against the misogyny that some have justified with their interpretation of the relevant religious text. Whatever one thinks, those texts were enlightenment when they were written, and thought on it evolves. So one must beware not to take the text, or the interpretation some give it, as the god. Or as the Buddhist would claim, do not mistake the finger for the moon it points to.

budaatum:
What is meant by "believe in the personal God called Yahweh"? The fact that it is personal means my relationship is whatever I say it is. But I agree that it may seem contradictory and oxymoronic to perceived opinion


There's that "personal" again!


Bollocks, pardon my Spanish. A certain Christian prayed to God in Jesus name last night before going to rob a bank. A certain Pastor prayed for his congregation last Sunday in Church, took from the offering and went to a LovePeddler house afterwards in the jet he bought. Surely we have taken a "few of his teachings" and disregarded the bits that do not suit our purposes. We are a la carte Christians taking from the menu as suits our hypocritical needs. Jesus is still lord, we would claim, and saviour. We don't have to be perfect you know, and the fact that Jesus died to wash my sins away is a comforting bonus!


Jesus was what he was. Come on man! Some say Jesus was a god! Do I have to become a god too in order to followhim?

Buda is what buda is, least as far as buda is concerned. Simple and short


Rubbish. And sorry again, it's for effect and not aimed at you personally. Church, or mainstream may reject me, but I intend, first, to lie and make them think I am holy, and second, I can go to a different church and not tell them, and third and more importantly, I can do my worship in private. I wouldn't be the first one doing a Jacob nor do I need authority to be whatever sort of Christian I claim to be!


"Jesus is my lord and saviour. Jesus is not a god!" I have come to this conclusion based on logic and rational, as far as I am able to and it satisfies me. I may be an oxymoronic, non-mainstream, logical, rational, deist, atheist, Christian to some, but their opinion or label stamping, is not my problem!

My point is, ones relationship with ones god is inherentally subjective and personal to the individual.

vaxx:
I could remember when I created a similar thread like this .....trying to identify religious focus atheist and science focus atheist .....calling them both irrational because they contradict themselves...... You guys were calling the thread all sorts of disgusted names.....


Hope you will be seeing the same sense I am trying to make in my thread here....

budaatum:
Why?



We used to read stories about the hare and the tortoise when I was young. Would a lack of belief in any aspect of those stories stop one from being inspired by them? Does one have to believe in hare and tortoises to be inspired by them?


It has a meaning, you just don't want to allow it to have one. Please read the quote below for further comprehension


The fact that Christ is a source of their inspiration would make some people classify them as Christians.


The beliefs of the individual do not require mainstream acceptance. And one does not need a congregation to validate ones stance!


Some would argue he was a Jew but he seems to have stepped out of the box. It could also be argued that he has inspired one to do likewise, hence the personal position/perspective/ ideology etc.


I've heard that one before, and it goes like this:

"Atheists have no morals because they....."

Get the drift?

ScepticalPyrrho:
Ebuka also talks about "logical theists"....

How can a theist be logical?

Except he is delusional.

Proudgorgeousga:
Christian deists do not believe in apersonal God that interfere they just accept the moral teachings of Jesus Christ.

and yes Muslim feminists is a thing even though it may sound ridiculous to you.

Proudgorgeousga:
Christian deists do not believe in apersonal God that interfere they just accept the moral teachings of Jesus Christ.

and yes Muslim feminists is a thing even though it may sound ridiculous to you.

felixomor:
Hehehehehe
KingEbukasBlog is still giving people seizures..... Lol

hopefulLandlord:
did he call himself a Christian deist?

Proudgorgeousga:
"Christian deist"is a thing