When did you outgrow god?

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Anonymous Sun Jul 26 22:51:55 2020 No.15969559 [DELETED]

When did you outgrow god?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 22:52:58 2020 No.15969567 >>15969559 This guy is already accepting God btw. He'll be a born again Christian later in life. Screencap this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 22:54:01 2020 No.15969579 >>15969559 I never really believed to begin with. And before anyone tries to get cute: yes, god really is a thing that one outgrows, matures past. The sadness is that few do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 22:56:06 2020 No.15969591 File: 169 KB, 1086x722, 15676046_1340775432646550_9022022318610127500_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 12 out grew atheism around 17

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 22:57:41 2020 No.15969602 >>15969579 You are supposed to outgrow your atheist phase in your 20s.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:01:53 2020 No.15969627 >>15969559 Never fell for that lulshit. Outgrew agnosticism around 20

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:02:52 2020 No.15969636 what book is like the definitive atheist book? something like Origin of Species or The God Delusion or something?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:04:14 2020 No.15969645 Remember the time when Cardinal Pell blew the fuck out of Dawkins during that debate?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:06:20 2020 No.15969669 >>15969636 Origin of Species has nothing to do with atheism. And The God Delusion too weak a strawman to be the definitive book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:06:26 2020 No.15969671 >>15969559 You're a faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:07:02 2020 No.15969679 When I decided that I don't care if I end up in the deepest recesses of hell

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:08:12 2020 No.15969687 >>15969669 well the thing is, i want to go through and read like all the main major religious texts and decide for myself what i think is right, and i feel like i should include an atheist text to complete it, and idk what atheist text that would be

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:10:15 2020 No.15969696 >>15969687 all the major "atheist" or anti-theist books only deal with some christian denominations.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:11:25 2020 No.15969706
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>>15969636
Nick Land

"I wiped the blade against my jeans and walked into the bar. It was mid-afternoon, very hot and still. The bar was deserted. I ordered a whiskey. The barman looked at the blood and asked:

‘God?’

‘Yeah.’

‘S’pose it’s time someone finished that hypocritical little punk, always bragging about his old man’s power…’

He smiled crookedly, insinuatingly, a slight nausea shuddered through me. I replied weakly:

‘It was kind of sick, he didn’t fight back or anything, just kept trying to touch me and shit, like one of those dogs that try to fuck your leg. Something in me snapped, the whingeing had ground me down too low. I really hated that sanctimonious little creep.’

‘So you snuffed him?’

‘Yeah, I’ve killed him, knifed the life out of him, once I started I got frenzied, it was an ecstasy, I never knew I could hate so much.’

I felt very calm, slightly light-headed. The whisky tasted good, vaporizing in my throat. We were silent for a few moments. The barman looked at me levelly, the edge of his eyes twitching slightly with anxiety:

There’ll be trouble though, don’tcha think?’

‘I don’t give a shit, the threats are all used up, I just don’t give a shit.’

‘You know what they say about his old man? Ruthless bastard they say. Cruel…’

‘I just hope I’ve hurt him, if he even exists.’

‘Woulden wanna cross him merself,’ he muttered.

I wanted to say ‘yeah, well that’s where we differ’, but the energy for it wasn’t there. The fan rotated languidly, casting spidery shadows across the room. We sat in silence a little longer. The barman broke first:

‘So God’s dead?’

‘If that’s who he was. That fucking kid lied all the time. I just hope it’s true this time.’

The barman worked at one of his teeth with his tongue, uneasily:

‘It’s kindova big crime though, isn’t it? You know how it is, when one of the cops goes down and everything’s dropped ’til they find the guy who did it. I mean, you’re not just breaking a law, your breaking LAW.’

I scraped my finger along my jeans, and suspended it over the bar, so that a thick clot of blood fell down into my whisky, and dissolved. I smiled:

‘Maybe it’s a big crime,’ I mused vaguely ‘but maybe it’s nothing at all…’ ‘…and we have killed him’ writes Nietzsche, but—destituted of community—I crave a little time with him on my own.

In perfect communion I lick the dagger foamed with God’s blood."

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:26:16 2020 No.15969802 >>15969679 You will care when you're there

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:28:15 2020 No.15969815 >>15969559 Dawkins is the atheist equivalent of those christian fundamentalist that give christianity a bad name.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:35:14 2020 No.15969864 >>15969815 >to stop annoying non-christians you should stop being christian >to stop annoying non-atheists you should stop being atheist Sounds like a safe, but impotent way of life.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:37:41 2020 No.15969876
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>>15969559
Atheists the most you can say about them is that they are neither very good nor very bad people. Personally I like people who take risks. A person who can't be detached enough to take risks concerning things bigger than himself is simply worthless. Just a food-processor with legs.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:38:44 2020 No.15969887 File: 996 KB, 2000x1603, corona babybel and bugels.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15969559 Praying for you Dr. Dawkins.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:43:07 2020 No.15969911 >>15969559 13 then I became a born again christian at 17 then I found out I don't actually care about religion and god at 19 25 y and counting as an apatheist

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:45:06 2020 No.15969925 >>15969645 >Cardinal Pell not a good name to drop anon

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:47:28 2020 No.15969936 >>15969696 why i am not a muslim by ibn warraq infidel by ayaan hirsi ali the young atheist's handbook by alom shaha are all written by ex muslims

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:53:39 2020 No.15969966

You know I've always considered the God question a bit of a red herring, that really what people are after is a way to circumvent their death instinct.
How much would people really care whether or not God existed if they knew as a prerequisite that this is the one and only life they're going to get, i.e. no immortality via afterlife.
It was only after I began to accept my own mortality that I was actually curious about the God question.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:57:40 2020 No.15969987
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>>15969559
I consider atheist people intellectually inferior to myself. I don't read atheists. I think we should expell atheists from society like in the golden days of Athens. Get out of my board, freak.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 23:59:16 2020 No.15969992 >>15969925 Wasn’t that the rare case when the accusations were proven to be retarded?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:00:23 2020 No.15969996 >>15969559 I never did my definition of God outgrew God

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:02:58 2020 No.15970007 >>15969706 >kindova

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:05:44 2020 No.15970022 >>15969602 Nice meme

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:07:02 2020 No.15970034 >>15969636 J. L. Mackie's The Miracle of Theism

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:08:05 2020 No.15970036 >>15970022 Yes, atheism is just a boring meme.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:10:52 2020 No.15970053
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Daily reminder it has been empirically proven religiosity stifles scientific innovation.

https://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Religion%20December%201g_snd.pdf
http://www.nber.org/papers/w21052.pdf

Daily reminder the overwhelming majority of leading scientists are atheists

https://www.nature.com/articles/28478
https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33

Daily reminder most philosophers are atheists

https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl

Daily reminder religious people are less intelligent according to dozens of studies.

http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/pdf/The_Relation_Between_Intelligence_and_Religiosity__A_Meta-Analysis_and_Some_Proposed_Explanations.pdf

Daily reminder religious people are less educated

https://www.economist.com/news/international/21623712-how-education-makes-people-less-religiousand-less-superstitious-too-falling-away

Religious people are literally a lesser breed of human

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:14:05 2020 No.15970078 >>15969911 Kinda similar I like religion from a cultural and historical POV, and I find the theological intricacies and arguments fascinating But I don't really care if there Is a god or not

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:16:09 2020 No.15970093 >>15969802 honestly I wouldn't be surprised if hell is bottomless

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:21:47 2020 No.15970127 File: 14 KB, 641x354, 97868A11-322A-4107-A8C8-15E330AC2AA8.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15969602 In reality, the number of people outgrowing religion overwhelmingly outweighs the number of irreligious people who adopt a religion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:21:49 2020 No.15970128 >>15969579 You sound like a faggot, and youll burn like one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:23:49 2020 No.15970141 Militant atheists are not popular now because they are beating a dead horse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:25:15 2020 No.15970153 >>15969636 there is no definitive book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:27:37 2020 No.15970168 >>15969636 The Abible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:28:00 2020 No.15970171 >>15969987 >closet atheist

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:33:44 2020 No.15970207
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>>15969992
turns out he might not be a pedo himself but he is a pedo enabler.
apparently he doesn't believe that god is omnipotent. he's probably secretly an atheist himself
>He said he was "surprised" by the inquiry's report, adding: "These views are not supported by evidence."
fucking weaselly sentence for a priest to come out with

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:37:45 2020 No.15970232 >>15970171 Closeted atheist genocidal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:43:44 2020 No.15970275 File: 34 KB, 540x304, transcending.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15969559 By becoming God.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:44:20 2020 No.15970279 >>15969559 Define "God"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:47:31 2020 No.15970304 >>15970127 Yes, and you'll find that the birthrates are inversely proportionate You're literally being outbred and cheering for it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:48:38 2020 No.15970312 >>15970034 Thanks

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:49:23 2020 No.15970314 >>15970279 Dog spelled backwards.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:51:31 2020 No.15970327
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>>15970304
Religious people are shrinking as a share of the population in every developed society.
If you want to cope by taking third worlders living in sub Saharan shitholes as a consolation prize, be my guest.
> If current trends continue, by 2050 four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:52:29 2020 No.15970337 >>15970304 Chicken birthrates are the highest.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 00:57:51 2020 No.15970372 >>15970168 lol

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:08:09 2020 No.15970420

I grew up atheist, surrounded by atheists and physics, and was a militant atheist until I grew up and started a family of my own.
I'm no Abrahamist, no Christian. I have however 'found' God. Physics kept me an atheist, but metaphysics, the physics of physics, made it too obvious. God is the great attractor, consciousness is the highest form, and the conscious will, the logos, is a small spark of the divine. Also, determinism is bullshit.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:10:48 2020 No.15970438
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>>15970420
>I grew up atheist, surrounded by atheists and physics, and was a militant atheist until I grew up and started a family of my own.
>I'm no Abrahamist, no Christian. I have however 'found' God. Physics kept me an atheist, but metaphysics, the physics of physics, made it too obvious. God is the great attractor, consciousness is the highest form, and the conscious will, the logos, is a small spark of the divine. Also, determinism is bullshit.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:16:28 2020 No.15970473 File: 553 KB, 600x450, do tell.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15970279 I'm more interested in how you'd define "God".

>>	Sadism Mon Jul 27 01:20:19 2020 No.15970492 13-19 Now into mysticism. God is illogical and beyond thought and reason. Religion would be better if the answer to why did God make this or do that was "havent the faintest"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:20:44 2020 No.15970494 >>15970473 God is a girl.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:33:23 2020 No.15970555 >>15970494 Nope. Got a big piece of pipe swinging between the legs. Slays women.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:35:14 2020 No.15970563 >>15970494 >>15970555 But to be more technical and pedantic, God references a masculine God. Goddess references a feminine God. So your God wouldn't be God, but rather a Goddess.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:36:40 2020 No.15970570 >>15970563 >but rather a Goddess. but rather the Goddess my bad, she gets pissed at me when I neg Her like that ;)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:42:36 2020 No.15970603 >>15969559 When I was nine. Took almost 20 years to get around to dissecting the corpse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:43:07 2020 No.15970608 >>15970555 God is a futa?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:47:19 2020 No.15970630 >>15969602 Yes. And switch to some mature form of metaphysics. Even christian god is acceptable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:48:38 2020 No.15970636 >>15969559 14. With age came wisdom and grew back into Him in my early 20s.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 01:49:21 2020 No.15970646 >>15969559 I was five. Community center Santa told me he didn't know about the toy I asked for and later molested me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:09:18 2020 No.15970765 >Creates the polemic principle of Male and Female >People still trying to work out which one you are

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:10:12 2020 No.15970771 File: 139 KB, 600x625, 25C24A8A-16CE-4AEA-B9B7-D8D2FD7C1573.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15970636 >With age came wisdom and grew back into Him in my early 20s.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:10:33 2020 No.15970773 >>15969876 BASED

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:14:57 2020 No.15970812

>>15969559
>Started question God's existence at around age 9-10.
>Became an atheist at age 14.
Still haven't come back to God, although I really would like to believe in him. But all the evidence seems to indicate that he doesn't exist, and I can't fool myself into believing he does, unfortunately.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:58:18 2020 No.15971056 File: 2.02 MB, 1280x720, nanase laughing.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15969559 when i realized there are competing religions and the bible is contradictory and makes no sense

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:59:45 2020 No.15971064 >>15969936 >replying to the persecution complex of a christian

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:01:40 2020 No.15971072 also the early church fathers contradicted each other and had heretical views that are not accepted by christians today constantine was not a trinitarian. he was baptized by an arian and was an arian christian

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:07:52 2020 No.15971103 the first christian ruler was a heretical christian

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:14:31 2020 No.15971136 Imagine unironically wanting to believe in a jew in the sky. Your life must be a vast desert if this is the case. In fact, it makes you a gay nigger who should reconsider going on with his life

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:14:58 2020 No.15971138

>>15969966
Proof that there is nothing after life? for a thinking man, I'm surprised you either never came to the thought or weren't satisfied with the thought that the nature of existence itself is conducive to experience and thus it is equally - if not far more likely for reincarnation or recurrance to occur after death than it is for 'nothingness'. And even if nothingness were to occur, you simply wouldn't experience it, meaning for you, you would blink and be a baby again, or something else maybe. Is it just a trick through the current idea that reality is 'grim'? I mean, all super ideas about life are suspended in favor that life is simply banal, death, boring, fuck and make baby because death, eat food bla bla. Of course I could be wrong and my reading of your post might be too shallow, let me know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:19:55 2020 No.15971165 >>15971136 I dont think god ever identified as a jew

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:29:10 2020 No.15971201 File: 35 KB, 260x324, 260px-Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Look at Lamettrie and Dawkins and tell me physiognomy isn't real.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:41:01 2020 No.15971245 >>15971165 If it talks like a jew, acts like a jew and swindles like a jew, it’s probably a nigger

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:42:36 2020 No.15971254 >there is one true religion and it comes from jewish people >it doesn't come from white people, asian people, and black people > it comes from desert jews imagine actually believing this

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:45:16 2020 No.15971265 >>15971245 Anyway, my main message is nigger and jews, bad news. My atheism is just a theological equivalent of this

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