The petering out of "new atheism" or how Dawkins is so yesterday

weso1 said:
It's unavoidable as atheism continues to grow, imo. There will be many different denominations. You will be considered a fundamentalist although you will hate the term.

In the year 3000!
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If I am alive in the year 3000, they can call me whatever the **** they want.
 
Well like Al Pacino says in Stand Up Guys, they say you die twice. Once when you take your last breathe and the second time when the last person utters your name.

If in the year 3000 someone is still talking about me I know I did good.
 
KeithLockhart said:
Well like Al Pacino says in Stand Up Guys, they say you die twice. Once when you take your last breathe and the second time when the last person utters your name.

If in the year 3000 someone is still talking about me I know I did good.
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Or REALLY bad.
 
The only gods atheists believe in are the baseball gods. With that said the Braves are in the heart of the bible belt. Christian god sure has been tickling him self screwing us over.
 
Oh, religion...oh, atheism!

Spose you could say I have an interesting relationship with both.

As a kid, I was given a multitude of blessings and promises that my cerebral palsy would be healed (hey, it still might! :cooter:), but the older I got, the more I realized as a very distinct (and probable) possibility is that I will probably be bearing this cross for the rest of my mortal ministry, as my church likes to put it. Hellz, even some of my leaders there have told me the same thing I've thought, "jared, you might not be healed in this life, but if you can endure, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that great blessings await you in the next life!"
 
Science H. Logic folks, if you guys could use all this nervous energy for something constructive who knows what we might be able to accomplish??? Uggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Mrs. Meta said:
Oh, religion...oh, atheism!

Spose you could say I have an interesting relationship with both.

As a kid, I was given a multitude of blessings and promises that my cerebral palsy would be healed (hey, it still might! :cooter:), but the older I got, the more I realized as a very distinct (and probable) possibility is that I will probably be bearing this cross for the rest of my mortal ministry, as my church likes to put it. Hellz, even some of my leaders there have told me the same thing I've thought, "jared, you might not be healed in this life, but if you can endure, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that great blessings await you in the next life!"
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KeithLockhart said:
If I wanted to kill you you'd be dead already. :Alone:
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I guess this should remind us all that death is coming for us, one **** at a time.
 
zitothebrave said:
WEll it would depend on what one would define a religion as.

Typically religion is defined as belief in a god or gods. But some define it as a group with the same/similar idea.
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For instance, certain forms of Buddhism can be considered atheistic, so an exclusively "religion=belief in god/gods" is, imho, an overly Western and insufficient, though common, definition.

Btw, there are atheist "churches" popping up all over the place. Isn't that interesting - this pull to form congregations and services modeled after the practices of Christianity. The early Hazel Motes (character in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood) would have been proud!
 
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