Atheist/non-religious thread

[CarpCharacin]

Here is a video that's actually funny.

 

[cinnamoncockatiel]

Here is a video that's actually funny.

I gagged. I actually gagged.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Okay, I calmed down more, played with my chickens, saw my favorite cows on my way home, think I'm good now....


Anyone have a favorite myth or story?

 

[Sierra G]

I'm not sure atheist is the right term for me. I don't have a problem with God as a concept. Maybe not even as an entity.

What I have a problem is with is people telling me what to believe. I'm very tired of the "it's all so complicated someone had to create it" argument. The problem I have with that is that if you can believe something exists that can create a whole universe and you believe it happened 4000 yeas ago, you should also be able to accept the possibility that the entire universe was created 13 billion years ago. Or that it was created 13 seconds ago. Creationism doesn't just defy logic, it makes it totally irrelevant.

 

[ColtHandorf]

mix of old and new

Only old. lol No new. My grandmother calls them "choruses". lol They are so repetitive. And I love hearing an organ, a piano, and the orchestra with voices all lifted at once. All that electronic business is for the birds.

I miss singing in the cantatas too. I sang with the Community Chorus for Easter and Christmas and sang the soprano, tenor, and bass lines. Yay for never resting, ever. The perils of being a counter-tenor I suppose.

 

[KarynVA]

What I don't agree with is the prevalent attitude of, "I believe in God and I know Him," which can give the impression of being somehow better or more righteous than others. Like, I'm a special child of God because I am a believer.

I always wonder, what about indigenous people in third-world environments, who never have the opportunity to learn about God? Are they not special, too? It's not their fault if they never saw a Bible or never went to Sunday School.

 

[Sierra G]

I laughed sooooooo hard the first time. It is just really well done. lol

Okay. I started to laugh before "the pole is that way". But after that I fell off the couch.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Ooh?

I always wonder, what about indigenous people in third-world environments, who never have the opportunity to learn about God? Are they not special, too? It's not their fault if they never saw a Bible or never went to Sunday School.

I discussed that too!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/atheist-non-religious-thread.1469889/page-63#post-24495130

 

[ColtHandorf]

Okay. I started to laugh before "the pole is that way". But after that I fell off the couch.

It still makes me laugh.

Me: "I...I don't think I know this song..."
Arc Angel: ... -_-

 

[KarynVA]

Only old. lol No new. My grandmother calls them "choruses". lol They are so repetitive. And I love hearing an organ, a piano, and the orchestra with voices all lifted at once. All that electronic business is for the birds.
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I miss singing in the cantatas too. I sang with the Community Chorus for Easter and Christmas and sang the soprano, tenor, and bass lines. Yay for never resting, ever. The perils of being a counter-tenor I suppose.

I am the same way. In my goin' to church days, the hymns was the only part where I felt even a little bit spiritual and the only thing I enjoyed.

I sing with our community choir now and there's something really wonderful about the unity of a choir singing together while, at the same time, the uniqueness and diversity of all the voices and harmonies of the 4 voice parts.