Atheism

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This has really struck me after 5 church people showed up at my door wasting 30minutes of my life asking me difficult questions and “persuading” me to join their church and therefore religion. I don’t know if I’m alone on this, but I guess I wasn’t brought up with a religion. Is that a sin? I certainly don’t think so. God is an issue that I really don’t think much about. God or no God, I think my life has been fine without it and doubt it’ll get any better or worse with it. I’ve never gone to church in my life, well, at least not for church purposes, the only reason that I’ve gone to church in my life is mostly for food and fun, but never for religion. Not believing in God certainly doesn’t mean I’m going to hell though correct? I’m kind of confused about this stuff though.

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PS. I’m atheist.

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Well depends on the church. Protestant churches say you will go to “hell” because you don’t believe in God and believe that Jesus died for your sins. Catholic churches I believe also say you’re going to hell since you don’t believe in god (i’m not catholic and don’t know that many catholics cause my area is about 95% protestant), but if you live a good life, I think Catholicism says you go to purgatory, so not too bad.

I don’t think most christian religions say you’re going to hell if you don’t go to church, but they do urge it so you can learn more about God.

But if you’re atheist you shouldn’t care cause you don’t believe in God.

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*Originally posted by NaliWarCowZ *
**Protestant churches say you will go to “hell” because you don’t believe in God and believe that Jesus died for your sins.

What if I don’t even believe there was even a Jesus? No one has ever seen him or have a picture of him, it all could be just the biggest scam in the world!

I think Catholicism says you go to purgatory, so not too bad.

Goto purgatory?

If I’m atheist and I don’t believe in God, where will I go? :+)

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I wasn’t arguing on beliefs or anything, I was just saying what the churches preach. If you don’t believe that Jesus existed and was the son of God, protestant churches say you go to hell.

If you’re atheist and don’t believe in god, but lead a good life, I believe catholic beliefs say you go to purgatory, but I may be wrong, so a catholic person might wanna reply and say how it really works.

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If you dont believe in Heaven or Hell, you wont go there. Good for me :beam:

Seriously though - read the thread about peace - it’s the exact same thing.

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O ok, whats purgatory?

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Again, I’m not catholic so I’m not 100% sure. But from my understanding purgatory is kinda the waiting room of heaven. If you’ve been a good person, before you go to heaven, you stop off at purgatory. Then if enough people pray for you to get into heaven you can get in. If not, then you just sit in purgatory forever.

It’s also supposed to be a place where good people who weren’t christians go, so they don’t go to “hell” forever.

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Nali, you may not be Catholic, but that’s about the best description I’ve heard so far. That is also what I’ve heard of purgatory.

Remember, if you haven’t been baptised you can be a mass murderer, and you still will only go as far as purgatory.

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So purgatory is just somewhere between heaven and hell. Sounds fair, I wonder what you do there?

:wink:

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*Originally posted by Maxtr0sity *
**If I’m atheist and I don’t believe in God, where will I go? :+)

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Six feet under.

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Unless you are cremated…

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*Originally posted by NaliWarCowZ *
**I wasn’t arguing on beliefs or anything, I was just saying what the churches preach. If you don’t believe that Jesus existed and was the son of God, protestant churches say you go to hell.

If you’re atheist and don’t believe in god, but lead a good life, I believe catholic beliefs say you go to purgatory, but I may be wrong, so a catholic person might wanna reply and say how it really works. **

Its been a long time since the whole church ordeal for me. I was baptised catholic and confirmed protestant. I am also from a family of wiccans. (odd upbringing) I am atheist for the most part now.

From what I remember from the Protestant (methodist) church I went to back in the day…you do do whatever you want as long as you say sorry. That included not believing in god. So if you died and were like “opps, sorry bro I didnt know you were for real” you would be all good and let into deaths disneyland…

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*Originally posted by thoriphes *
**Six feet under. **

Ha! What if I believe in my own religion. I’ll make up my own religion and call it Maxism. Than, I can set where I go.

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mmm…sounds sexy.

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Thanks, I think I’m inventing my own religion and going to practice my own beliefs. I wonder if that’ll actually work. :trout:

If it does work like that, everyone should make their own religion.

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Toolism - “The Way of Tool”

24 hour listening to Tool and other related bands :beam:

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Well, if you get enough people to join, as well as the government’s attention, you may be able to get a tax cut, à l’Australie

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Lol, great idea, anyone want to join Maxism? The daily rituals include trolling kirupa, eating pizza (if you don’t like pizza, shame on you), and working on Flash or any other sort of products.

In return, if one meets the daily rituals, they get to goto a tropical island in the Carribeans for the rest of their life with unlimited money and bicurious chicks. :wink:

If one fails to meet the daily rituals and fails to make up for it, they get to goto normal heaven. :+)

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this link might help you a lot if you are curious about Atheism and what its all about. Many many people have a lot of misconceptions about atheism and the people that are atheist.

http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/

If you have any other questions or you want to talk about anything, let me know. :slight_smile: I’ll post later about what I feel atheism to be. :slight_smile:

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Uh-oh! Lol.

Great site, I found out that I’m a “weak atheist,” more atheist than agnostic, Jubba, are you atheist?

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