Atheism

owenphil and lonus - a perfect couple.

If you don't believe there is a "god," why do you capitalize the words "god" and "he?" What was the source of all that "baby Jesus" bullshit? If you don't want people to assume that you're a theist, you're doing a piss poor job of convincing anyone otherwise.

Atheism is ostensibly the doctrine that there is no God. Some atheists support this claim by arguments. But these arguments are usually directed against the Christian concept of God, and are largely irrelevant to other possible gods. Thus much Western atheism may be better understood as the doctrine that the Christian God does not exist.

Agnosticism may be strictly personal and confessional--'I have no firm belief about God'-- or it may be the more ambitious claim that no one ought to have a positive belief for or against the divine existence. Perhaps only the ambitious version invites an argument. A promising version might combine something like William Clifford's dictum that no one ought to hold a belief on insufficient evidence with the claim that the existence of God is evidentially indeterminable. Both of these claims, of course, have been strongly contested.

Naah, I do it all the time, force of habit and when using the word "god" as an expression of a specific cultural identity, I always cap it. WHen Im in some broohah with a theist I will cap God(and often Holy Spirit) just to be polite. Id often cap Oden-Boden or Rah, while never believing one jot that they were any more real than the Easter Bunny .

Anyway many times a deity comes out "Gdo" or "oGd" so most people get it.

Often so-called atheists are nothing more than 'theist bashers' without reasoning at all.

14 Interesting Facts about North Korea

1. You can’t turn off the government radio installed in your home, only reduce the volume. (Or talk louder).

2. Idolatry in North Korea is such that it is second-nature for ordinary citizens to “rescue” portraits of Kim Il Sung before all else in the case of a house fire (there are even special bunkers for statues in case of war). (First-nature eradicated--for now anyway.)

3. Many people don’t even know that man has walked on the moon. (That must be really awful Gladys!!)

4. There is no Internet, cell-phones have been banned. (The bright spot.)

5. A main cause for all problems are Americans. Mothers teach their children to sing songs about bad Americans, there are many postage stamps showing the death of “U.S imperialists” (Internet sites teach us to think of bad N. Koreans--it works on me.)

6. A six-day work week, and another day of enforced “volunteer” work, ensures that the average citizen has virtually no free time. (**** that your reverence.)

7. The very first thing you do when you visit North Korea’s capital Pyongyang is visit and give a flower to a big statue of “Dear Leader”. ( The second thing you do is squeeze the douche bag full of piss hidden in your overcoat so that the statue is sprayed surreptitously. Be sure of that.)

8. About 0.85% of the population are held in prison or detention camps. (It's not enough.)

9. Most traffic control is performed by female traffic directors (reportedly handpicked by Kim Jong-Il for their beauty) (that makes sense with their being no traffic) , as the lights are switched off to save electricity. (there could be a more sinister reason.)

10. Dogs are banned in Pyongyang to keep it clean. (I'll go for that too.)

11. Avarage wage in 2005 was 6$ (source: www.gluckman.com/NKFEER.html) (That's a decent screw for a N. Korean.)

12. Visitors of North Korea are given special guides and can’t go anywhere without them. (Surely that can't be true? There won't be any toilet jokes if it is.)

13. North Koreans are used to often disappearing electricity and have many candles prepared. (I've met ladies like that.)

14. North Korea has the fourth-largest military in the world, at an estimated 1.21 million armed personnel. (They are good at synchronised marching holding heavy guns in deliberately arranged difficult postures whilst not grimacing.)
Some call it “the Darkest Spot in the World” (I wouldn't go that far.)

. . . or anti-sunday school . . .

EDIT: I'm an atheist becaue i don't believe, not because i have a belief i want to proselytize. Campaigns like this are odious to me, and i suspect, tend to confirm the faulty perception many people have of atheists as just a different type of believer, willing to shove their "beliefs" down other people's throats.

But essentially, it is always just a case of my response being "i don't believe that." I am neither offering a counter belief, nor am i calling for anyone to join in my lack of belief.