Hi there. If you know me, you'll know that I am not a religious person - far from it - but I am interested in religious and theistic matters. Now, as you read the title of this thread, I'm curious as to why people feel the need to congregate into groups to share a religious experience. (I'm an...
This is posted in the DIR forum of Secular Beliefs, under Atheism 2. So don't come here flaming me for saying what I'm about to say because it doesn't coincide with your religious beliefs. Leave your faith at the door, please.
I would like to throw a proposition out here for you all to comment...
It is more than obvious, that people who identify as religious, are (consciously) ignorant of certain facts of reality. They avoid scientific evidence and when it is in front of them they explain it away in the most pathetic fashion. It seems they care so much about their delusion that they...
Sometimes, when a religious person is once more lost in his or her wilderness of unfortunate beliefs, the person offers the notion that Atheism requires a much greater leap of faith than Theism does. This is of course wrong.
So here I am, some gay guy from the Netherlands (not Holland) trying...
As seems the norm, an introduction by this new man.
My name is Diederick, D.A. Becker (the 'A' stands for Antonius). I'm 20 years old, being born in 1988 in the same place I now reside. I'm Caucasian.
My all-day life is quite varied, I'd like to think, in that I supplemented regular life with...