<p>just curious to know. i just had a discussion group meeting at college and was shocked that so many could be atheists...i was pretty angry...yes, there are so many harvests but so few workers!</p>
<p>I go as regularly as possible. Even so, I should probably go more.</p>
<p>I'm still amazed that there is one Church for my religion in my town (not Knoxville, but where my family lives), when there is at least one Baptist Church on every corner. I'm in the minority here in Tennessee.</p>
<p>dude - enough with the trolling threads</p>
<p>I love church. I'm probably not what you think of when you think of traditional Christians, but spirituality is a big part of my life and church on Sunday morning puts my life in perspective at the beginning of each week.</p>
<p>I am a nihilist</p>
<p>okay, this is the FOURTH message board where someone has said "Nihilist" just tonight! one can't be repeated here, but i digress.</p>
<p>i dont go to church. my family went all the time when i was little but since probably 3rd grade we've never gone regularly. i havent been inside a church except for funerals, weddings, staying with a friend for the weekend and they go, etc.; i.e., situations where i dont want to feel like a d**k for saying i dont want to go. and yet...i'm conservative, which is what throws my friends off the most.</p>
<p>i go all the time in college, but not at home. At home, my mom goes to Catholic church, which I find really a waste of time. Yet at school, I feel every time I go to the non-denominational christian services it truly brings me closer to jesus and god, so I go every week if I can.</p>
<p>I do pray and read the bible regularly at school and at home</p>
<p>I know what you mean. My political and religious and personal beliefs throw people off...and cause a lot of people to stigmatize me. My family also stopped going to church when I was in the 3rd grade, but I continued being a Christian and go to church in college now. I was raised in a conservative fundamentalist church, Church of Christ, but now I go to a non-denominational church, New Life, targeted at college students.</p>
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<p>same for me</p>
<p>i didnt know there were a lot of nihilistic people.... even the liberals here at california are somewhat christians</p>
<p>There are lots of atheists. I'm one.</p>
<p>With respect to every god but one, Christians are atheists too. Christians choose to not believe in Allah, Zeus, Thor, FSM, etc. Atheists just take it one god further.</p>
<p>Allah is the same god ......</p>
<p>PS isnt it annoying how anti-christians always come up with nonsense to explain the lack of spirituality in their lives?</p>
<p>The majority of students at my school are either agnostic or atheist.</p>
<p>isnt it always annoying how christians always defend their spirituality with the same word: "faith"</p>
<p>(see Flying Spaghetti Monster)</p>
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<p>IMO, this is a poor use of the word "atheist." Atheism does not mean the denial of the existence of a <em>particular</em> god, but it means the denial of the existence of <em>any</em> god. So saying that Christians are atheist with respect to something is deceiving; they are not atheist with respect to anything because they necessarily believe in a God. </p>
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<p>You know what I find annoying? This mockery of religion, the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" movement. I can't think of any established Church that publicly mocks atheism. But this particular atheist movement, "The Flying Spaghetti Monster", has one main goal -- to mock religion. It expresses basic disrespect towards religion and those who follow it. IMO, at the end of the day, it gives atheism a bad image, not unlike some Christian movements give Christianity a bad image.</p>
<p>I don't think you should take Pastafarianism so seriously. I'm an atheist, I like to call myself Pastafarian, I talk about His Noodly Appendage a lot, but I do respect religious people (as long as they don't disrespect atheism). I think Pastafarianism is funny, though. Everyone religious talks about faith, you only believe because of faith, which isn't logical, and you admit it. Why should religion be incapable of laughing at itself? If Irish people can laugh at Irish jokes, religous people should be able to laugh at religous jokes. I can laugh at atheist jokes, anyway.</p>
<p>I don't like making jokes about groups...but I have no sense of humor...</p>
<p>What groups? </p>
<p>I'm not trying to put down anyone or anything here.</p>
<p>My point is that Pastafarianism has one main goal -- to mock religion and those who follow it.</p>
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<p>It's not an issue of religion laughing at itself. It's an issue of SOME atheists mocking religion and those who follow it. It's not self-deprecation. Pastafarianism may be funny to some atheists, but it's probably not as funny to the religious people who are the objects of its mockrey. A group of white people who form a club and mock black people is quite a seperate matter from black people making jokes about themselves.</p>
<p>It's a matter of lacking basic respect for people who have different beliefs (and not merely different, but sacred). That's why I am annoyed by it.</p>
<p>My point has nothing to do with theological questions or whether or not there is a God.</p>
<p>I go to church every Sunday.</p>