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A Religious man testifies to the goodness of being an atheist and being close to atheists - Happy reading - ![]() The man: Living with an Atheist had been a new experience for me. But it is a refreshing one. Since I recently left my marriage to a devoutly religious woman a whole new world has suddenly appeared. The openness that I now share with this new woman has enlightened me to a human quality that was missing from my long and shallow marriage. That openness is called honesty. We both know and accept the full range of who we really are, and communicate in truth rather than in hypocrisy. At first the exposure to such a raw person was frightening, and I didn't think it would last. But I awake one morning before she did and looked at her unkempt and natural body, it was then that I realized I was living with a genuine human being. That is the moment when I fell fully in love with her.SOURCE |
Atheism isn't an easy thing to come to terms with for anyone. We make up less than 3% of the population in the world and face persecution from many religions. However, learning to accept your disbeliefs will ultimately lead to higher self-confidence and a more positive self-image, along with the increased ability to accept others. 1. Determine if you truly are an atheist. To clarify, the dictionary definition of atheist is ‘a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.' Are you confused about your faith, or lack thereof? Has there been a recent event in your life that made you question it? If you were formerly religious, do you feel as though God let you down in some way? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, you may not be an atheist—rather, you may be at a crossroads in your life. You might be making decisions right now, and that’s perfectly normal for one who is confused. 2. Do research on other religions. Perhaps you might not be Christian, but a Muslim, or vice versa. You could be mistaking atheism as a permanent stage, when it is really a temporary transition from one faith to the next. We’re all a little puzzled by the complicated question of belief. 3. If you resolve that you are an atheist, don’t be ashamed of it! Even if you were raised in an environment that actively condemned non-believers, you are your own person, and that includes your beliefs. Don’t concern yourself with the supposed myths that atheists are ‘immoral’ or ‘damned.’ Learn to accept yourself, even if you feel as though you are being judged for it. If people dismiss you upon finding out that you are an atheist, then they truly aren’t worth your time. It’s better to let go of those people in your life, as their intolerance is more than likely exhibited in other areas to other people. 4. Surround yourself with understanding friends. Friends show their true colors when they’re faced with challenges or something new. Find friends who love you as a person and can look past and accept you for your atheism, even if they don’t necessarily agree with it. 5. Learn to love, accept, and live with religious people. They are people—just like you! No one wants to be looked down upon for something so insignificant in the long run. What matters, obviously, is our character. We are people before atheists or Christians, Muslims or Jews, Buddhists or Hindus. It’s good to get different perspectives, too, especially if you’re in the aforementioned transitional stage. Remember that true friends won’t try to convert you to their side and will let you choose for yourself. Hopefully, they’ll respect your decision. 6. Talk to a counselor or therapist if you’re feeling extremely insecure, depressed, or otherwise uncomfortable with your decision. It’s also a good idea to do this if you’re being ridiculed for your atheism. A therapist will not judge you and offer very helpful advice. Tips Read books about atheism, the most notable being Richard Dawkins’s ‘The God Delusion.’ It is an empowering book for atheists, promoting the fact that atheists can lead fulfilled lives and should be proud while not overbearing. ‘God Is Not Great’ by Christopher Hitchens and ‘The End Of Faith’ by Sam Harris are also good places to start. Try to meet other atheists if possible. It can help you to understand that you’re not alone. Listen to their stories of self-acceptance and take heed in them. Be sure to keep telling yourself that there’s nothing about you to be ashamed of. You’re a free person, and you are free to practice—or not practice—whatever you would like. SOURCE |
Are you frightened that you might become homosexual soon? |
davidylan: the number of shockingly ignorant atheists is alarming.you again, are you always a coward? |
All praise to the Flying Spagetti and the Pink Unicorn, the authors and creators of the universe and everything and everyone in it |
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Ayomivic: striktlymi, your identity has been revealed. You are not a christian.you may be a backslider but you have gone far astray .iam going to expose you for all christians in this forum to see who you are.You are a cunning man,a pretender who always disguise as a christian to weaken the christian your cunning bible verses. I believed some atheists knew this but some christian did not or may be they knew but just overlook it. These are my evidence.you are a total f'ckup, striktlymi is a christian, a catholic! do you not know that? |
oiseworld: well its not as u see it.sorry but Christ/Muhammad are the poison and problem of our world |
wow, non existent sound like a better way to spend eternity!! |
striktlymi: I never talked about recent breakthroughs in science and technology.Well, its always been about "recent" and "new" discoveries. When they suggest otherwise to the old view that people have held for a long time, those who are wise enough to follow the evidences where ever it leads becomes atheists. Recent breakthroughs suggest there is no God, recent breakthroughs suggest that apparent designs are no design at all but repetitive patterns, recent breakthroughs suggest that nature can self coordinate, therefore self originate. Recent view of nature, that is, evolution has helped scientists approach diseases better. We can now deal with new strains of bacteria and virus because we understand that they always evolve rather than get "created from scratch, from nothing". Recent breakthroughs supported Atheism and so recent and even more new and recent breakthroughs will always tell people more about their surroundings, and with always occurring breakthroughs, people will learn more and realize that there is no God, hence become atheists. That is how breakthroughs will lead to the world becoming atheists willingly. striktlymi: Are you denying that 'breakthroughs' have been from age to age??Who can deny that breakthroughs have always occurred, past breakthrough led to ours in the first place! what even suggested to you that i could be denying that "breakthroughs have been from age to age?? striktlymi: There will always be scientific and technological breakthroughs, even breakthroughs in other areas like Economics and the humanities. Like you pointed out, this is not a new phenomenon to man...Atheism and Theism have been there while all these breakthroughs have taken place and this will always be the case.There has always been scientific and technological breakthroughs for real, but in recent time, there has been an explosion of breakthroughs. The 20th century was considered the golden age of genetics, what we didnt know in decades before then were known. Such recent and new discoveries led to most scientists becoming atheists, including me. You have to understand me: New areas of knowledge are now evolving, recent additions to our knowledge is what makes more scientists atheists and since we havent even learnt 50% about nature, more new knowledge, as they come, will make people understand that there is no God, that is how breakthroughs will make people atheists. striktlymi: The above is same as saying man is a mistake of nature!only if you want to want to believe that man is a mistake of nature. we are results of mutations - mistakes, yes, but we are lucky to be the result of a cumulative mistake that led to a better functioning protein system - us, what if we were lions, would you know how to use make a computer then? striktlymi: Emotional cause I said you are in the dream state??...oh please!!! You only have faith that religion will seize to exist...your faith does not have any shred of empirical evidence. So like I said before, you are free to continue dreaming!Why do you love to force "faith" on me. You tell me always that i have faith on this, faith on that! AM ALLERGIC TO BULLSHIT!! do i have to repeat that? ![]() Now, as i have explained above, that recent explosion of scientific breakthrough is concomitant with recent explosion of atheism - because scientific breakthrough will always continue, till we can space-travel, numbers of atheists is also on the rise ![]() striktlymi: ![]() striktlymi: Your opinion! Your right!!My opinion! The truth!!, why dont you talk about it if you dont feel like its true, you just prevaricated by saying the above! ![]() striktlymi: As far as I am concerned, deism is a logical view point than Atheism.hmmmm, so, if science truly wakes up the dead, you would "jilt" your God and become a deist, until science proves that there is really no God, then you will become an atheist. I like your style, "staying under the umbrella of safety", but you know what? that is cowardly, cowardice, pusillanimous and every other word that explains behavior of people who cant stand firm in a particular situation. I have been a christian, but i will now always be an atheist, until the evidence suggest otherwise - that is, until i can observe God. If the world i observe is only a delusion of network of cells, how much more is the God i can only imagine or think about - why dont you think about that. and pls, explain why you implied atheism is not logical - you implied this when you said striktlymi: deism is a logical view point than Atheism.ehn? |
"wet dream" is perfect |
Ihedinobi: Oh, don't worry about me! Such drivel as your comment has been repeated so often over the past two thousand years that even the most cowardly Christian wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I'll believe it, if at all, when I see it, mm.YOU WILL SEE IT, YOU CAN BE CERTAIN OF THAT |
[quote author=tpia@]why so agitated? i dont see anyone disturbing you and your fellows on your myriads of senseless threads, yet this one miniscule topic among the thousands you've opened in this section, is making you queasy. what do you think is the reason. [/quote]maybe its because am allergic to bullshit-religion |
Ihedinobi: And those are just a few names we can find. Imagine what could be happening among the billions of ordinary people whose exploits don't generally make the front page. That little stone hewn out of a mountain without hands is truly turning into that great mountain that filled the earth. What a joy! He shall indeed see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Did not He also say that He will build His Church upon the Rock of His perfect acceptance unto God, being Christ, Messiah, Anointed One, God's Chosen King, and the very gates of Hell shall not prevail against it?
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Ihedinobi: And those are just a few names we can find. Imagine what could be happening among the billions of ordinary people whose exploits don't generally make the front page. That little stone hewn out of a mountain without hands is truly turning into that great mountain that filled the earth. What a joy! He shall indeed see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Did not He also say that He will build His Church upon the Rock of His perfect acceptance unto God, being Christ, Messiah, Anointed One, God's Chosen King, and the very gates of Hell shall not prevail against it?i laugh at your ignorance. you will be so surprised when religion finally crash out of Earth, all your Gods with it. |
striktlymi: Inventions, scientific breakthroughs, discoveries are not new to the Earth. They have been from age to age.Recent discoveries in genetics and cosmology are quite new to Earth, are you denying that? What we know now, we didnt know in some 200 years past, what we will know in some 200 years to come, we do not know now. There are NEW discoveries at this time, though DISCOVERY it self is not new to earth, but we are making EVEN MORE DISCOVERIES OF THINGS THAT ARE NEW TO EARTH. that is the difference and why it will boost atheism striktlymi: I guess you still believe that you are a mistake of nature...anyways that's your problem.I wouldnt put it that way, i would say that our ancestor was a result of reactions based on possibilities, reactions which does not always produce favorable result, but which at one point produced a perfect result, which became us. I would say that we are the lucky ones, born in the species of the highest intelligence. Though we werent planned for, we are really special. I would say that we are the special ones, not the created, purposeful and planned ones, yet not the mistaken ones, but the lucky ones. striktlymi: That is your dream and will forever remain just a dream.dont get all emotional on me now. The time will come and we will know dreams from reality. We will separate the wheat from the tare. striktlymi: We will see to it!I am seeing to that, theif! ![]() striktlymi: Every field of study has its ethics. Anyone who goes against these ethics would be shown the door. Using medicine within the bounds of ethics to proloing life can be acceptable in some cases.hmmm, so you would really spend more time on earth than with your God in Paradise. You know what i think, i think that religion is an excuse for our limitations. When science wakes up the dead, then you will see how everyone, including yourself will easily drop your faith and become non-theists, deists even if not atheists immediately. God rules now because man still has major problems that need solving, which some people unbelievable think that a non-existent being can solve by prayer. |
onyfrank: pls don't understand God as sum1 sumwia watching ooman, no no. God is evrytn, evrywia, in any minutest point. He is aware of Himself as u, and evry oda things, visible and invisible to u.SO AM GOD? |
onyfrank: @all atheist. Just that u only need to get rid of Ego.JUST WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP |
GOD CREATED THE HORRORS OF HELL, HE SHOULD FIND A WAY TO LET EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT HIM IN A WELL CONVINCING WAY RATHER THAN EXPECT US TO WORSHIP HIM ON BLIND FAITH |
onyfrank: hmmm, so intresting. If what i read above is what really being atheist is, then u ppl ar on d right track. Its just dat u ar nt practising religion bt unconsciously u guys knws dat there is something higher, which only ur sixth sense knows when u look in2 urself. Wow! Wen U ar doing this u ar looking and being aware of Christ in u. Keep it up.dont deceive yourself, there is no God no where |
Ok, you are not considering all factors here! striktlymi: That shouldn't be a yardstick given that things like this have been shown not to be consistent over time. Check out Christianity for example...from the time of the Apostles, there was a boom in its membership but this boom plummeted to the point of a fear of extinction later on before it peaked again.Things have not been consistent over time, yes, true. But recent discovery in science, medicine and technology, which were not present before, are turning people's heart to atheism. With more discovery about the universe and the world around us, people are learning that intelligence is not involved in nature. Increase in knowledge means increase in atheism. The more educated people get, the more likely they become atheists. This and other factors,like Arab women rejecting Islam and embracing atheism because it offers FREEDOM, is why atheism will continue to grow at the detriment of religion. The predictions can not accurate, true, but you can be certain that 2000 years to now, Religion is done and off our planet, the Gods with it. I will see to it that we live up to that period. Tell me, if that research was successful, would you prolong your life time? wouldnt that be against your faith? |
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striktlymi: Atheism is not a new concept. It has been right from the time when men became gods in ancient Greece and yet the world has not turn Atheist in total.growth rate of atheism in recent times! |
manmustwac: Your not serious I should have banned both of you for dersiling topic. I created this thread for you two in the date and meet up section so you can continue your babes gist https://www.nairaland.com/1217855/ooman-meets-striklymllol |
The story is not true. This same people also said the pope converted to Islam. Fibbing will get you or your God no where! |
striktlymi: Precisely and that's the very reason why religion cannot go under for any reason.People are getting modernized decade by decade. Its has been predicted that in the next 2000 years, hardly would you find anyone claiming any religion. Religion will ultimately self eradicate and that is good news |
striktlymi: That's where you get it so wrong!No one, in this time and age, can say people cannot worship any God they want to worship. Atheism is not Islam, do not mistake them together! |
staggerman: He has been telling you, but you have not been listening. You have shut your ears to His voice, and your eyes have you closed from His vision.Then he has been whispering, let him shout on top of his voice, perhaps then, i will here! His visions are not clear enough, let him make them crystal clear! |
wetin now? we no fit catch fun again? |
striktlymi: War and violence are not constant but they have a way of resurfacing when injustice takes precedence. To deny people of their rights is unjust and where injustice flourishes, peace will be elusive.I said no one is denying anybody's right!! people will realize their mistakes and become atheists willingly, even you!! |
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AM ALLERGIC TO BULLSHIT!! do i have to repeat that? 


[/quote]maybe its because am allergic to bullshit-religion