I've been looking for a good place to dust off my talking and thinking skills, particularly to debate about religion, and this place seems like a good one. I'm an evangelical atheist of roughly 10 years, having come out of deeply evangelical Christianity through a long, arduous process which involved seeking objective evidence so I could convert atheists (oh the irony) and discovering the bible for the first time on my third, most honest read-through. I can still speak in tongues and prophesy, but it gets me weird looks at parties.
I'm married, with two very young children (the one sleeping in my lap currently is two weeks old). I drink scotch (each bottle takes about 3 years to finish), unexpectedly loved Buffy, and heard a lot of songs in the Weird Al version before I heard the real ones.
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Onomotopeia?
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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AshtonBlack
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Hello there!!!
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Ashton Black wrote:"Dogma is the enemy, not religion, per se. Rationality, genuine empathy and intellectual integrity are anathema to dogma."
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FBM
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Welcome, new dood! 
Thinking is allowed here, but not particularly encouraged.
Thinking is allowed here, but not particularly encouraged.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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A long time ago when I started spelling it this way I just was doing it wrong. At this point I simply appreciate the irony that a word that means "a word that looks how it sounds" doesn't look how it sounds.born-again-atheist wrote:Onomotopeia?
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maiforpeace
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Welcome to the forum Onomotopeia! 
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. ~Christopher Hitchens~
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Onomotopeia wrote:A long time ago when I started spelling it this way I just was doing it wrong. At this point I simply appreciate the irony that a word that means "a word that looks how it sounds" doesn't look how it sounds.born-again-atheist wrote:Onomotopeia?
Fair enough.. but also:
Onomotopeia?
It's a conspiracy!
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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salve! per gratus mihi venis novum
sorry, speaking in tongues...
welcome new guy!
sorry, speaking in tongues...
welcome new guy!
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Welcome Onomotopeia!
Although it may look like a forum, this site is actually a crowd-sourced science project modelling the slow but inexorable heat death of the universe.
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Welcome. Our main product is bullshit, but at times we may slip into coherent arguments.... 
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"Yo". Rocky
"Never been worried about what other people see when they look at me". Gawdzilla
"No friends currently defined." Friends & Foes.
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