Atheist/non-religious thread

[chickentrains]

Name the Venus flytrap I impulse bought

 

[cinnamoncockatiel]

Name the Venus flytrap I impulse bought

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I LOVE VENUS FLYTRAPS. I have kept many..

Duckie?

 

[chickentrains]

I LOVE VENUS FLYTRAPS. I have kept many..

Duckie?

me TOO I've always wanted one so when I saw this one i SNATCHED it

 

[Silviaschicks]

We need a carnivorous plant thread, I keep a bunch with my brother

 

[Silviaschicks]

making one rn

 

[ColtHandorf]

No idea if this has been said or not, but this is my view. I grew up Southern Baptist for 16 years and was forced to attend church every time the doors were open; Sunday morning for Sunday School and the service, evening services as well as Wednesday night Youth Group and that service too. When my father threw me out of the house when I was 16 and I moved in with my mother I no longer went as I no longer felt welcome. There were some exceptions but I no longer felt like being there. The only part of church that I truly loved and miss occasionally is the old hymns. I can't stand modern Christian music, but the old hymns with their multi-part harmonies and verses are beautiful.

Now I've said all that to say this, there is nothing wrong with being spiritual. And being spiritual does not necessarily correlate to worship of God (big g). However, it is my belief that human beings are one of the only organisms that have the cognitive ability to believe that there is life after death and that because we can not (as a whole) accept the finality of death, that we created God to explain our existence and to give us something to look forward to after death. Essentially it causes cognitive dissonance for many to believe that there is nothing after death. I also believe that it is evident by creating a criteria for acceptance into this afterlife. And by that I don't mean being a good person, but that only a certain group of people are allowed. And that as wondrous as the rest of life is that we are somehow superior (because we have the ability to think we are) and that means all "lesser" life forms do not have life after death.

On a somewhat unrelated note, it has also always annoyed me that I was taught that anyone who didn't worship big G God went to Hell. So Native Americans and other civilizations that worshiped other gods didn't get a free pass until Anglo-saxons crossed the big puddle to bring Christianity to them. That is one part of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia that I truly enjoyed. In the final book a young man who worshipped a god (Tash) that was not Aslan believed and had true faith. Aslan told the young man that he would pass into the "new and remade Narnia" (essentially the afterlife, because all things he did in the name of the false or lesser god, was accepted by Aslan (Big g God).

 

[HawaiiCoyote]

I left for a single day and look what has become of this thread...
I’m so sorry to all the people that came her to talk about nature and spirituality, obviously the topic has changed...

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I might be wrong here (probably) but I didn’t really read it as trying to convert anybody or take over? People asked questions about things and they were answered. Should the people’s questions have been ignored? I am not trying to be snarky there, genuinely curious. Because from what I saw, the Christian stuff didn’t start until people started asking questions about it. Yes it continued a bit long after that and there was the whole going to hell thing which was bad but otherwise I thought it was pretty civil and a mutual discussion? If it wasn’t then I apologize and do wish that would have been stated sooner. Cause from where I stood it was just a discussion not a “you’re wrong, you must believe this” ??? But maybe it came across as that way? Which I’m sorry if so. But I am sure people would not have continued if they thought for a second it wasn’t mutual. Anyway, will go back to lurking now but I thought everyone was welcome ?

A bit late, but it was the INSISTING that there must be a higher up because we cannot prove 100% that there is not that was starting to really p*** me off honestly.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Name the Venus flytrap I impulse bought

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Semore

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Finally caught up and got off work.