The Atheist "Good News " !

by Phizzy 11 years ago 50 Replies latest 11 years ago jw friends

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  Phizzy 11 years ago

  Sam , "Kate Wild", asserted that I am an Evangelist for Atheism, O.K then, here is the Atheist "Good News".

  "There is no God, now relax and enjoy life".

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  galaxie 11 years ago

  AMEN now where's the party!!!

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  Phizzy 11 years ago

  My place, every Friday night. No collections are taken.

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  alonein321 11 years ago

  May I suggest our "Reasoning" book:

  A Manual for Creating Atheists - Peter Boghossian

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  prologos 11 years ago

  is the party after sundown, coincidinng with the start of the Sabbath?

  are you sure you spelled noose right? is it all good?

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  Phizzy 11 years ago

  The only religious connection in my Friday night revels is that I religiously get drunk.

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  KateWild 11 years ago

  Lol that cheered me up. I needed a shot of humour. Well done. Kate xx

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  Laika 11 years ago

  I tend to think the best thing about atheism is that you no longer need to 'save' people or generally care about people's beliefs which is why I find a manual for creating atheists a weird concept.

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  Xanthippe 11 years ago

  A Manual for Creating Atheists

  I do enjoy a tongue in cheek title. It reminds me of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

  Key concepts in his book are:-

  • Do not treat an encounter as a debate, it’s an intervention there will be no winner/loser.
  • Use Socratic questions to examine opening up the idea of critical thinking.
  • Steer your conversation away from the concepts of gods or religion, concentrate on how people know things.
  • Never walk away or give up on anyone!
  • Consider the word “faith” to mean “pretending to know things you don’t know.
  • No not allow the conflation of faith and trust.

  http://www.atheismuk.com/2013/12/20/atheism/book-review-a-manual-for-creating-atheists-by-peter-boghossian/comment-page-1/

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  prologos 11 years ago

  If it is a really 'BIG' Sabbath, like the passover story in Jesus' day, at least 4 glasses of wine were served. that is a good start.

  Some here are still having a case of religious hangover from the run-away Theist splurge we participated in, so

  we are reluctant to so fully embrace this A-Theist 'good news'.

  Reminds us of the un-enviable prospect of people in Eastern Europe in 1945. Having just lived through the bloodiest time in Human history, and brutally liberated from Nazi-organising, now had to embrace the Stalin/Lenin dogma and apparatus to make it. Not that Atheism or Atheists have shown these terrible traits, but for Deists and Agnostics the verdict is still out. The wise slogan was WM*. without me.

  Friday's do is not a victory party.

  * or one of it's local language equivalents, like OM.

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