How many have become atheist after leaving the organization?
How many left the organization have become Atheist?
by icyestrm 47 Replies latest jw friends
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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.- Why are you an atheist and not an agnostic?
- 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?
- Isn't God required to provide a moral yardstick?
- Since atheism cannot provide an absolute moral yardstick, doesn't it follow that God have to exist?
- Can atheists explain how morality could have arisen without God?
- 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?
- Aren't atheists merely immoral people who do not want to face God's judgment?
- 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?
- How can an atheist like you have a meaningful life?
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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
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eclipse
Agnostic here, becoming atheist
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changeling
Oh crap: nvr's got more cool stuff I want to read. Quit that, I need to get a life!!!!
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nvrgnbk
Sorry.
I'm just trying to be helpful.
LOL!
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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.
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brinjen
(raising hand), athiest over here
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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
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PEC
Show me God and I will worship Him, Her, It.
Philip