How many of you are Atheists? What about Theists?

[Hallistar]

the churches and i'll say it again we do not believe in the end of the world.

I was taught to be a Catholic for the first 12 years of my life, and I was never taught anything about Revelation being a coded message, and I was taught that there would be an end to the world. Perhaps it was just my teachers, or perhaps the position of the Church has changed since then, but I trust you understand that I'll be wanting a source.

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Precisely.

And you know that the experiences of people who were briefly 'dead' happened when they had zero brain activity? Not before that point, if such a point was ever reached?

To be fair..for the experiences part, these people that are mentioned in some cases were in extremely terrible accidents and were declared dead for hours with zero recorded brain activity

But there is always that random probability, that the universe is random, that even without knowing it those people were not truly dead in some scientific way..Its the whole second guessing and doubting stuff I suppose, which leaves us at square one and has driven some people insane in the past over the paradox of what will happen when we die

[Gilthador]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

[South Waxhaw]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

[Valtieres]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

Biology does wonders. You should try it some time.

[Samuraikoku]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

This explains it.

[Ifreann]

Hell no. God decides when the world will end (and yes it does sound like a big contradiction)

Exactly, the Church accepts that it will happen, they just don't do any more than that.

As I recall, they suggest constant vigilance. God could be about to go all Michael Bay on this sucker any minute, best make sure to stay in his good books.

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Hold on I need to scan that part of my Bible on the Fax machine then. I read from the Catholic Youth Bible.

If you told me the chapter and verse I expect I could find it online.

[Avenio]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

If by 'spontaneously formed' you mean 'coalesced out of its component parts over millions of years as part of a fairly well-understood process', then most likely, yes.

EDIT: Fixed for clarity. Though life, as we now define it, itself appeared out of components like RNA in a relatively short period of time, the evolution of life's precursors took much longer.

[Roman Templars]

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

Biology does wonders. You should try it some time.

BIOLOGY IS THE DEVIL!
no i kidd.

[Norstal]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

Yes. I believe there's a theory on how carbon bonded with some other element deep in the waters that causes life.

[Farnhamia]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

Sure. It didn't form whole and complete, poof! like in the Bible. Over years and years and years chemical reactions became self-sustaining and structures became self-replicating and then ... me! (Okay, it took a few more billion years.)

Curses, ninja'd!

[Roman Templars]

Exactly, the Church accepts that it will happen, they just don't do any more than that.

As I recall, they suggest constant vigilance. God could be about to go all Michael Bay on this sucker any minute, best make sure to stay in his good books.

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Hold on I need to scan that part of my Bible on the Fax machine then. I read from the Catholic Youth Bible.

If you told me the chapter and verse I expect I could find it online.

wait. I forgot what I am looking for. please remond me.

[Derscon]

It's not just that. If there was no adam and eve, there was no original sin.

i know it goes against but it shouldn't be taken so seriously like some people do.

...I...don't think you fully understand how important Original Sin is to your theology.

[South Waxhaw]

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

If by 'spontaneously formed' you mean 'coalesced out of its component parts over thousands of years as part of a fairly well-understood process', then most likely, yes.

and the component part came from...

[Existential_Nihilists]

I'm an atheist because it is perfectly rational and logical to be so.

I'm an atheist too, but I don't arrogantly announce it in such a manner. If you say something like that, you should at least have a paragraph or more to follow up on.

[Derscon]

You find it logical that life spontaneously formed?

Sure. It didn't form whole and complete, poof! like in the Bible. Over years and years and years chemical reactions became self-sustaining and structures became self-replicating and then ... me! (Okay, it took a few more billion years.)

[Zeth Rekia]

Zeno's a hardcore atheist that believes in god.

[Valtieres]

If by 'spontaneously formed' you mean 'coalesced out of its component parts over thousands of years as part of a fairly well-understood process', then most likely, yes.

and the component part came from...

Particles of matter that bonded over time into macro-organic molecules. Hurp.

[Norstal]

Zeno's a hardcore atheist that believes in god.

Satanist?

[Roman Templars]

i know it goes against but it shouldn't be taken so seriously like some people do.

...I...don't think you fully understand how important Original Sin is to your theology.

i do and I studied it. sin we are given from birth even if you do not believe in God. But Adam and Eve is more of a summary on how we got orginal sin.

[Heningrad]

atheists out number Christians! Comrades we can take over now!

[Farnhamia]

If by 'spontaneously formed' you mean 'coalesced out of its component parts over thousands of years as part of a fairly well-understood process', then most likely, yes.

and the component part came from...

Yes, all the way back to the Big Bang, through stars and nebulae and all that. And no, the BB wasn't an explosion, it was the rapid expansion of an infinitely hot and dense point containing all matter and energy. And no, we don't have every single detail, but you know what else we don't have? A moralizing supernatural being who picked an obscure planet in an obscure galaxy somewhere in a vast universe, and then picked an obscure Near Eastern tribe as his "Chosen People." Who's got logic now?

[Roman Templars]

atheists out number Christians! Comrades we can take over now!

yes thats true but Capitalist out number communists.

[Valtieres]

atheists out number Christians! Comrades we can take over now!

For comrade Dawkins! SLAVA!

[Norstal]

I still want to know what particles ghosts are made of. Maybe I can present it to the Physics department at my Uni. I'll name my thesis "The Invisible Sandmen: Ghosts".

Tachyons?

Come now, we already proven that there are no Tachyons. Only God and Allah. Wait...they're brothers, right?

[Greater Tezdrian]

atheists out number Christians! Comrades we can take over now!