XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.christnet   
   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   On 29-June-2014 10:54 AM, BruceS wrote:   
      
   > On 06/26/2014 01:06 PM, bilgat@m.nu wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:19:28 +1000, felix_unger    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 25-June-2014 2:02 AM, bilgat@m.nu wrote:   
   >>>> once a person is an atheist that person will always be an atheist.   
   >>>   
   >>> untrue   
   >>   
   >> I guess you know because you are an atheist?   
   >>   
   >> YOU HAVE NO IDEA you little fucking gimp. You dont know what it is   
   >> like to know the truth. You dont know what it is like to realize that   
   >> you have been lied to by most people for your entire life. You dont   
   >> know what it is like then the people come to your door trying to sell   
   >> god and you cant help but feel so sorry for them for being such   
   >> idiots.   
   >>   
   >> No you will never know what it is like because your mind wiill never   
   >> be opend to what the world is really like. You will never know because   
   >> your brain just is not able to understand the truth   
   >   
   > I have to agree with Felix on this one.   
      
   I have to wonder why anyone would disagree. it's common knowledge plenty   
   of ppl have converted either way - to or from religious faith   
      
   > I've known atheists who became religious, nearly always Christian. I   
   > had a HS friend who was no more interested in invisible sky monkeys   
   > than I was; more focused on scoring some weed and getting high.   
      
   ahhh.. a typical atheist then.. :)   
      
   > After we graduated and went our separate ways, he seemed to keep "the   
   > faith" for a while,   
      
   yet many atheists want to deny there's faith involved. the reality is   
   however that atheism is a belief that one has faith in the veracity of   
      
   > but then one vacation he had become "saved" and talked about little   
   > but Jesus. At first I thought he was pulling my leg, but he was   
   > serious. A few months later he had regained his sense, but later still   
   > had a relapse. He's not the only one I've known to suddenly embrace   
   > irrationality and superstition, just the one who came to mind first.   
   > Many people who go through life as atheists suddenly start one or   
   > another form of "spiritualism" when faced with their own mortality.   
   > I've been appalled at the mental lapses shown merely from taking an   
   > abstract reality and bringing it to the foreground. When I went   
   > through my own little dance with Mr. D, I found no more urge to   
   > religion than before, but apparently many people deal with their fear   
   > of imminent death by believing in some system that allows them to live   
   > forever.   
      
   a lot would depend on how comfortable ppl are within themselves, and   
   with what they believe, I would suggest   
      
      
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