User Profile: advancedatheist

Member Since: March 25, 2012

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  • Christians have had 2,000 years to propagandize the world with their doomsday cult nonsense, yet the “end times” mysteriously fail to arrive. Ironically, the ones who believe in the rapture may have gotten the part of christians’ disappearance from the world right, but for the wrong reasons. Religious belief in general shows signs of decline, so eventually all the christians will disappear through natural means, while atheists take their place and the human species goes on about its business without noticing christianity’s absence. Refer to psychologist Nigel Barber’s ebook, “Why Atheism Will Replace Religion: The triumph of earthly pleasures over pie in the sky “

  • I can see why the increasing visibility of atheists in the U.S. gives some christians in this country the creeps. We look like an invasion of time travelers from the 22nd Century or something, and the absence of god beliefs in our lives suggests to christians that their religion might not have much of a future.

    But the whole “secular women” thing doesn’t turn me on, because these women seem to have grievances against men and biology, not against religion as such. Patriarchy exists independently from theism, and unlike theism, patriarchy has empirical support: We can’t observe or communicate with gods to see what they want from us, but men have had to live with women all along, and patriarchs just might have some legitimate grievances about women’s behavior.

    I also find their emphasis on contraception and abortion rights exceedingly annoying, because it tells me that these women really, really hate the fact that sexual relations with men can get them pregnant. It just strikes me as a form of self-loathing.

  • I grew up in “rapture ready” Tulsa in the 1960′s and 1970′s, and I wish I could have joined an atheist group in my teens just to have some sane people to talk to. I’ve met a few people who had the good fortune to grow up as atheists, and to me they seem like characters from some advanced, futuristic civilization out of science fiction.