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Why I am an atheist

by Awakened at Gilead in

someone (a born-again exjw) on youtube asked me why i was an atheist... i crafted a brief response... it follows:.

1. religious reason: there is no proof for god outside of the bible.

once i dropped my belief in the bible, the judeo-christian concept of god fell apart like a house of cards.

Hurry Hurry come get your ex- masturbater t shirts here

by loosie in

link deleted.

now i kinda like the ex-slave one myself.

but it's would be for a completely different meaning than what they mean.

Why I am an atheist

by Awakened at Gilead in

someone (a born-again exjw) on youtube asked me why i was an atheist... i crafted a brief response... it follows:.

1. religious reason: there is no proof for god outside of the bible.

once i dropped my belief in the bible, the judeo-christian concept of god fell apart like a house of cards.

Funny thing is I'm on the way to a natural history museum today to teach my mom about evolution.... thanks for the link Hoobie... now I'll be able to tell my mom... see these fossils? they're not as old as the museum says they are... they don't know what they are talking about. I'd rather trust a bunch of creationists who believe in ancient scribblings instead of palentologists who actually find fossils in the order that evolution predicts...

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who go ONLY to the memorial???

by oompa in

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i was planning on going to a meeting or two with my wife.......maybe one or two a month.....but if i do...... i still really do not want to ever go to another memorial......they have weirded me out for years and most of jw friends know that........but you know once you skip a memorial it is like you are marked for death already....i mean word gets around fast "omg...i just heard oompa did not go to the memorial!

so how is this gonna fly if i go to a couple of meetings a month, but skip the memorial?

and if was gonna try to appease my wife by going to some meetings.......should i just bite the bullet and go to the memorial........and then maybe only do the memorial?......i always thought that was sooo funny that we had a bunch of once a year jw's.........they loved coming and rejecting jesus every year..........oompa.

Awakened at Gilead

I don't think I will ever step foot inside a false religious Kingdumb Hall again... well, maybe for a funeral... only maybe... but definitely not for the Jesus reject party

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Why I am an atheist

by Awakened at Gilead in

someone (a born-again exjw) on youtube asked me why i was an atheist... i crafted a brief response... it follows:.

1. religious reason: there is no proof for god outside of the bible.

once i dropped my belief in the bible, the judeo-christian concept of god fell apart like a house of cards.

Awakened at Gilead

It only took 30 seconds to find the religious aims of the so called scientific group.

Never again...

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i have been outed pretty badly as an evil apostate.......BEWARE!!!

by oompa in

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and in a kinda funny way........this friend of mine.......who is very close friend of my df'd son and is much younger than me.....he has been dfd for ten years and shunned by his family and really reall misses them......and has been in a longterm gay relationship and i always felt bad for him because there is almost no way to come back in...then fade...if you are in a gay relationship.......so anyway he has heard me trashtalk wt a ton...and seemed to have zero problem with that and griped about his wt issues...... so i call him the other day and immediately respond with some comment about the damm cult.......we he says," wow oompa you prob don't know but i am going to all the meetings again!!

so i am just snap....."wow, that is amazing...i had no idea....are you just going back for family...and then try to fade?

" which is what i just knew had to be the case....and i even mentioned how that would be hard to do with his partner all it would be discovered.......get this....."oompa, i am doing this for me and not my family......they don't even know i am going so don't say anything"........so i am in shock and the more we talk the happier he sounds about da troof....and i mean he is like filled with the holy ghost......so i mentioned how many things we have talked about that they teach that we both dissagree about.......and he says he know they prob have some things wrong but all religions do.

Awakened at Gilead

Well, life is better on the outside. Its better if they shun you, then you don't ahve to deal with their trash talk anymore

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Why I am an atheist

by Awakened at Gilead in

someone (a born-again exjw) on youtube asked me why i was an atheist... i crafted a brief response... it follows:.

1. religious reason: there is no proof for god outside of the bible.

once i dropped my belief in the bible, the judeo-christian concept of god fell apart like a house of cards.

Awakened at Gilead

Hooberus:

I clicked on your link. Note the aims of creation research (is that an oxymoron?):

1. The Bible is the written Word of God, and because it is inspired throughout, all its assertions are historically and scientifically true in the original autographs. To the student of nature this means that the account of origins in Genesis is a factual presentation of simple historical truths.
2. All basic types of living things, including man, were made by direct creative acts of God during the Creation Week described in Genesis. Whatever biological changes have occurred since Creation Week have accomplished only changes within the original created kinds.
3. The great flood described in Genesis, commonly referred to as the Noachian Flood, was an historic event worldwide in its extent and effect.
4. We are an organization of Christian men and women of science who accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. The account of the special creation of Adam and Eve as one man and one woman and their subsequent fall into sin is the basis for our belief in the necessity of a Savior for all mankind. Therefore, salvation can come only through accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior.

Hmmmm... they lost me with #1 (that's not scientific). #2-4 don't sound too scientific either. Thanks Hoobie!

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SIT DOWN!.....i am going to the meeting next week for sex....

by oompa in

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actually...i am just hoping that mo/betta sex is just a huge fringe benefit (really hoping that!!!!!!!

) ......i may start going one or two times a month........and it was an idea handed to me by my friend bonnzo here.

he is a great guy all around....who loves his old pioneer mom enough to keep going to the meetings a bit instead of doing what we would both like to and walk away......actually we both would probably prefer that all our family and friends walked away and then it would not even be like walking away.

Awakened at Gilead

I wouldn't go to a meeting just to get laid... LOL

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Article: The Atheist's Dilemma

by BurnTheShips in

campos: the atheist's dilemmaby paul camposwhy is stanley fish so much smarter than richard dawkins?

that question occurred to me last week, while attending a lecture at which fish, the well-known literary and legal theorist, did the thing he always does, which is to make the following point over and over again:.

"no believer will find his faith shaken by evidence that is evidence only in the light of assumptions he does not share and considers flatly wrong.".

Awakened at Gilead

Augustine's first principle of sound interpretation is that an interpretation is sound if it confirms the truth of the Christian faith.

Confirmation bias, anyone?

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Seven years on JWD/JWN

by NewYork44M in

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seven years ago i first discovered jwd.

i found this site through links at freeminds.org.

at the time i was attending meeting and miserable with the progress of a fade that was going no where.

Awakened at Gilead

Hey NY44M,

Congrats on 7 years and getting your life in order... I'm coming up on just one year and my life could not be better... will I be seeing you over the weekend for my wedding or festivities?

A@G