Atheist/non-religious thread

[Brooks_]

The big bang theory,

My hangup on that is: Where did the ball of dust or whatever come from?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

My hangup on that is: Where did the ball of dust or whatever come from?

If you read earlier we were discussing all that.

 

[Brooks_]

If you read earlier we were discussing all that.

Page?

 

[black_cat]

we can be in the outcast club, most of the people here don't like me

wha-
I am personally affronted by this statement

 

[black_cat]

Page?

I think around page 10?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Page?

Starts at page six.


Post in thread 'Atheist/non-religious thread'
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/atheist-non-religious-thread.1469889/post-24491813

 

[ShrekDawg]

I know you weren't talking to me, but I appreciate that. It's all the "You're going to hell unless you are sraight, cisgender, and believe in god" crap that really does stear me farther away from Christianity.

I was told by my own grandmother AND Aunt that I am going to hell for just supporting the LGBTQ+ community. And that's from my own family, and just supporting, not even being part of it, it's scary to think what people who aren't related, or don't know me think. Or what they'd say if I did happen to be part of the community.

I’m really sorry! Unfortunately there’s still A LOT of people that think that way and have made it VERY rough (I’m aware that that is an extreme understatement so apologies ) on that community but it’s definitely not what it’s supposed to be about. Two of my friends from this retreat thing I went to in college are gay and they grew up Catholic even (not sure if they still are but they were) but they were/are happy and leading the thing. So it is possible

 

[chickentrains]

wha-
I am personally affronted by this statement

Fancy words, don't understand.

I can make a list of people who I know don't like me

 

[Tre3hugger]

I am ok to just think that my body will feed nature and I will join the beautiful process that I admire so much as I decompose. If there is a spiritual after life, maybe the point is not to know now. It is for AFTER life, not to know during. I am ok with that.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

So what do y'all think about an afterlife, or absence of one?

I am ok to just think that my body will feed nature and I will join the beautiful process that I admire so much as I decompose. If there is a spiritual after life, maybe the point is not to know now. It is for AFTER life, not to know during. I am ok with that.

I believe that when we die, we suddenly know everything (solves that whole "I wish I had told him, or I never got to tell him" guilt) and when we're ready, we're born again


There was a cool story that brings me some comfort when I start to get worked up (I don't deal with my possible demise well at all) where *you* are the only human and every other human I'm history and present and future is just another person because time is a human construct. Doesn't exactly fit with me, but it gives me a chance to calm down again

One big reason I steer away from Christianity is because the concept of it is just frightening to me. I’m lesbian and according the religion, that deems me not worthy of “gods love.” For being myself I will go to a place of eternal suffering. I simply do not want to be a part of something that tells me I’m not good enough.

Heck, I'm trans and gay so I'd just be similar to a poop stain at that point I feel like before being sent to Hell