How many left the organization have become Atheist?

by icyestrm 47 Replies latest jw friends

  • icyestrm
    icyestrm

    How many have become atheist after leaving the organization?

  • nvrgnbk
    nvrgnbk

    One atheist checking in.

    http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/atheismfaq.html#top

    Atheism: Frequently Asked Questions

    My website is primarily about my rejection of Christianity. However quite often I do get e-mails from Christians, and other theists (including Muslims, deists etc) fielding questions about atheism. Given below is a summary of the answers I have given to the most common of those queries.

    1. Why are you an atheist and not an agnostic?

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    2. You are an atheist because you already included the non-existence of God as a fundamental premise in your epistemological paradigm. Why can't a theist do the opposite-in other words, simply assume that God exists and start reasoning from there?

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    3. Isn't God required to provide a moral yardstick?

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    4. Since atheism cannot provide an absolute moral yardstick, doesn't it follow that God have to exist?

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    5. Can atheists explain how morality could have arisen without God?

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    6. Isn't any system of morality premised on atheism condemned to arbitrariness, where morality is reduced to mere individual or cultural preferences leading to moral relativism?

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    7. Aren't atheists merely immoral people who do not want to face God's judgment?

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    8. Weren't Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot all atheists? And weren't they responsible for some of the worst atrocities known to man?

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    9. How can an atheist like you have a meaningful life?

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  • changeling
    changeling

    I'm on my way. I consider myself agnostic but I think that's a stepping stone for people who "believed" for a long time.

    changeling

  • eclipse
    eclipse

    Agnostic here, becoming atheist

  • changeling
    changeling

    Oh crap: nvr's got more cool stuff I want to read. Quit that, I need to get a life!!!!

  • nvrgnbk
    nvrgnbk

    Sorry.

    I'm just trying to be helpful.

    LOL!

  • fedorE
    fedorE

    until very recently i mostly was just to busy to include the idea of GOD in my life ...like i tossed the idea in the trash can just like i disposed of the religion...and i realize i like the idea of agnosticism because it makes me feel like im not totally betraying a creator . I like to feel safe in my beliefs that way if im ever in front of whomever IT IS i can say i never actually said u didnt exist.shit i just pictured this huge white hand wrapped around my neck. F- - k.

  • brinjen
    brinjen

    (raising hand), athiest over here

  • LtCmd.Lore
    LtCmd.Lore

    Well, I'm not sure if I count. I left the org BECAUSE I'm an atheist, I didn't become an atheist because I left the org...

    It was only after becoming an atheist that I really got into studying the doctrinal issues.

    Lore

  • PEC
    PEC

    Show me God and I will worship Him, Her, It.

    Philip

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