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A few weeks ago at my workplace I was approached by a very visible, though homeless, religious man. He asked me if I were religious in which I replied with a nonchalant "No."
From there it seemed as if all hell was breaking loose. He started badgering me and saying that because I was baptized as a small child I'm ultimately "damned to Hell" for my "families mistakes".
Perhaps I should have just upped and walked away.. but for one, I was never in this particular situation, and since he was a paying customer, I sort of felt compelled to put up with his bullshit because I didn't want him to cause a scene or lose my job. I had no idea what to do. Needless to say, I was VERY uncomfortable in my workplace.
At one point the man whipped out his trusty Bible and read to me the passage stating something about the fact that I was baptized before the "age in which I would actually understand the concept of Jesus and God," my family undoubtedly voided the "name of God" and I'm "damned". I therefore told the man that at the simple age of 3 I vaguely understood the concept that "Jesus was good and died for me" and that "God is awesome". Even though my views...
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I found this on a blog site called Planet Atheism and thought it might be good for us to share some of our thoughts about Atheism! You can answer some, all, or none of the questions. Feel free to either leave your answers in a comment or you could set up your own soapbox article with your answers.
[b]Q1. How would you define “atheism”?
Q2. Was your upbringing religious? If so, what tradition?
Q3. How would you describe “Intelligent Design”, using only one word?
Q4. What scientific endeavour really excites you?
Q5. If you could change one thing about the “atheist community”, what would it be and why?
Q6. If your child came up to you and said “I’m joining the clergy”, what would be your first response?
Q7. What’s your favourite theistic argument, and how do you usually refute it?
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Article by 
adavila
posted
1 year ago
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So today me and my friends went to a friend´s house and as soon as I enter there was a bible to the left a cross in front of me etc. This is a normal thing in a home in Mexico so I didnt pay that much attention to it. Ok than, so we went to the garden and there was a small statue of virgin marie. I thought that was too much but I said nothing. So when we were leaving I saw this picture of Jesus Christ in the exit and it said "Jesus te ama" (Jesus loves you) The picture was kind of funny and I forgot about everything and I just said Jesus loves you?? hahaha
THT
WAS
THE BIGGEST
MISTAKE I EVER DID
One guy said: What´s so funny?
and I was like: nothing man
and another of my friends said: so you´re really an atheist huh? (he already knew)
and I told him that of course he already knew why was he asking again. But than the first guy said: But why are you an atheist? so I told him I think the idea of god is pure fantasy. When I said this his eyes got all big and he stared at me and said nothing
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