Sentences with phrase «as an atheist though»

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If I label myself an agnostic, a Buddhist or a Taoist, it doesn't go on the survey as atheist, even though technically it is.

A practical atheist is someone who claims to be a person who has faith but lives as though he doesn't.

I know a lot of anti-Christian atheists who are unreasonable and irrational and treat atheism as though it were a religion.

Assumptions along these lines are what atheists hang their hats on, but assumptions lead to false reasoning, and in any case, they base their view on beliefs, even though they don't recognize it as a belief.

some of you atheists are still talking... I can hear you... the little patter of your heart as it increases in rate because you are so ticked off at those mean «ol believers whom you hate so much you just have to put all your time into the CNN posts dealing with faith and God... You are so predictable... blather on without me though, I have to go get my sons from practice, so you will have to spew your hate on those left behind... Merry Christmas!

Like Sagan, Dawkins, and Tyson I identified myself to an Atheist as an Agnostic Atheist even though I believe a possibility of a «theory of deity» based upon evidence is infinitesimally small.

I agree with others, though, who say there are far more important atheist battles to fight, such as getting the Pledge of Allegiance back to its pre-Cold War wording.

If you ran a religious organization, should you legally be forced to employ me as an atheist even though I absolutely disagree with religion?

@ Derrick Yu, This actually may come as a shocker, but there are believers out there who still continue to ask questions about God, about the Universe, and so forth, and unlike certain atheists out there who if they can't get definite answers to just come to conclusions that can not be verified like conclude that there is no God, at least there are believers out there who at least are willing to at least be open to the possibility that there is a God, and from there they develop their faith, which even though is not a perfect knowledge, at least can help keep those minds open, unlike certain atheists who take the easy way out and convincing themselves that it is a fact that there is no God, when in reality it is not a fact at all.

However, the term «atheist» has been so demonized that most of these folks would never refer to themselves as atheists, even though they are.

«Yea, though the atheists maketh more sense and writeth better and have things such IQs that we do not, their time cometh, and cometh soon, just as it cometh soon for many thousands of years now.

So, at least indirectly — though actually quite directly, I believe — Stalin did persecute and kill religious believers because of his own Communist atheist orientation, even though this was mixed with a significant amount of his own personal megalomania, as Collin suggests.

I have actually been banned from a few «religion is always bad» atheist blogs as I try to show them that most people's religions have very little to do with right belief — even though their religious professionals may wish otherwise.

As though it could possibly matter one way or the other when the only alternative we have is a socialist muslim / atheist puppet.

I don't appreciate your labeling of all atheists as hypocrites and intellectually incompetent, though.

I'm not saying that when you'll do this you'll become an atheist (though personally I believe if you truely do think about it, that you will become one soon enough) there are a few people on this board (like JW) who has thought long and hard about god and rationalized it enough to still be a believer and make some sense, but fred, I will not be even remotely swayed to understand your point if you only use the bible as your bullhorn.

Sounds funny though but I never blame an atheist that he does not believe, as he is blind.

That's the one thing I've long hated about atheists — they love to make bold statements and outlandish claims and to say it as though it's true.

Good point about Atheists knowing more about religion because, in general, we've thought about it, worked though the nonsense we had pushed down our throats and lived to forgive, for the most part the adults in our lives that did their level best to scare us, to scar us as children.

He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt factuality, an atheist.)

Does anyone find it interresting that the atheists here have branded me as religious, though I have not supported religion in my comments.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

Atheists crack me up when they speak of morality as though they figured it all out on their own with absolutely no influence from religion.

I'm an atheist, too, and I find displays of religion as a response to an attack motivated by religion somewhat ironic (though not quite as perverse as stepping over 2500 dead bodies to find a 90 - degree angle and then hoisting it up and saying «see, god is here!)

It's funny though that there are people scared to «come out of the closet» as atheists.

Look at the atheists playing the role of martyrs as though they have been thrown to the lions.

You hardly seem as though you are settled or conflict - free about your atheist beliefs, otherwise why is it so important to you to disparage Christians?

The passing of religious faith is not applauded by this atheist — though, as he notes, he is convinced that there is no turning back.

All things are possible with atheism, though if you actually believe in a deity as you pray then you would no longer be considered an atheist, so you would follow the strictures of whatever other group you would then fall into.

As an Atheist my uncle doesn't object to God and religion because even though he doesn't believe, he feels it makes life a little safer in his community, rationalizing that some may be diverted from crime based on their fear of God.

But, when John Keats died and Shelley was stirred to the depths, his faith in Eternal Beauty poured out of him in inspired verse, as though he had clean forgotten he had ever called himself an atheist.

We atheists can no more absolutely rule out Christ either, but the odds are deemed so remote (and growing ever more so each day) that we choose to live our lives as though he isn't real, as most Christians choose to live as though the Hindu and other gods aren't real, and that Allah is not a real manifestation of their God.

Though 11 percent of college grads identified as atheists or agnostics compared to 4 percent of those with a high school diploma or less, 75 percent of those with college degrees still said that they were affiliated with a religion, compared to 76 percent of those with some college education and 78 percent with a high school diploma or less.

I agree with you, it really does need to stop, we need to respect each other's beliefs and non-beliefs, but I feel what the Atheists are doing these days (though I see them just as fanatical as the religious side) has a great deal of positive effects.

America was founded on Christian beliefs, and even atheists should honor and respect these beliefs (RE: Ancient Laws (Jefferson)-RRB- even though they do not believe in God... and just as we are told to respect them they should also respect us; sounds like they like being bullies; it should be understood that all can have their own opinion, but we should not condemn each other for different opinions.

Thus, for some former believers, though now an atheist, may have parts of themselves that hate their former god which the new part as no belief in at all.

Most atheists want «evidence» for the existence of God (as though they could interpret such evidence).

And yet «Here in Australia public discussion and debate often proceed as though most of the population is godless, atheist or agnostic.

Though atheist thinkers keen to tilt the playing field in their own favour cling to this idea, thinkers such as Neuhaus and Alistair Macintyre have demonstrated its shortcomings.

I was born a skeptic and as it turns out an atheist., and though my way of thinking was radically different from those around me, the brainwashing didn't take.

The military isn't exactly on the leading edge as crusaders for the liberal agenda on social issues and even though atheists are finally getting recognition and not just rejection in the overall community, there are still many in the military who think differently and won't reccomend this soldier for a higher rank.

It does though astound me as how many atheist come on the belief blog to belittle and put down their fellow nighbor, friends, aquaintences so forth who have wrong them only by having faith in GOD.

I would wear this, even though I feel my lack of belief warrants identifying myself as an atheist.

Though heralded as atheist martyrs during the nineteenth century, recent scholars hold that the beliefs espoused by Dolet and Vanini are not atheistic in modern terms.

I have no idea what «Top Atheist» is supposed to mean, though, as Libresco can barely put together coherent statements.

There are still six states with laws on the books that would bar myself or my daughter, as Atheists, from running for office (even though that's against the constitution).

Often, she is too kind to those beliefs: Plato did not believe that the world was changeless, the Stoics did not suppress personal affection, Hobbes was not an atheist and Descartes expressly denied that we should think of ourselves as «angels in machines» — though all these claims are believed almost as widely as similar falsehoods about King Canute.

She is a regular church - goer and a strong believer in God while he rejects what he calls the «supernatural,» though interestingly enough he is more agnostic than atheist as he does not wholly reject the idea of a creator.

, because, as teacher Amy Seefeldt explains, even though Frankl is an atheist, «He says that at the core of human existence is the search for meaning.»