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Cloud 04-15-2009 09:40 AM

De-Baptism
 
Spotted this little news story at Time:

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...891230,00.html

Quote:

. . . web site invites visitors to "Liberate yourself from the Original Mumbo-Jumbo that liberated you from the Original Sin you never had" and allows them to print out a paper certificate that uses quasi-formal language to "reject baptism's creeds and other such superstitions." But in recent months, as tens of thousands began to download the certificate, organizers realized that they had struck a chord with atheists and once-devout church members who are leaving churches they see as increasingly out-of-tune with modern life.
Kind of a spiritual diploma mill. But my question is:

Does this exorcise that creepy ghost that was put inside you?

Happy Monkey 04-15-2009 09:44 AM

Only if you use a hair dryer.

http://media.newsobserver.com/smedia...ffiliate.3.jpg

Sundae 04-15-2009 01:40 PM

My (new!) friend and I have angered the fish spirits.
We don't believe in them, therefore we can never exorcise them.

We'll be doomed to odd fishy tastes in random food and drinks forever now.
Then again, we're on the same medication. That might have something to do with it.

sugarpop 04-15-2009 11:44 PM

I think that ghost takes a lot more work than downloading a piece of paper that says you're free.

Cloud 04-16-2009 12:55 AM

I'd tend to agree.

Urbane Guerrilla 04-16-2009 03:00 AM

Atheists are believers too. They just believe in a very silly way, to scant benefit. It never appealed to me. I never got worse off than "not particularly religious."

DanaC 04-16-2009 05:51 AM

We believe in a silly way? Ok.

sugarpop 04-16-2009 12:28 PM

:D I found that amusing as well Dana.

Flint 04-16-2009 01:06 PM

Quote:

They just believe in a very silly way, to scant benefit.
Beliefs should not be ranked according to benefit provided.

Happy Monkey 04-16-2009 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla (Post 556759)
Atheists are believers too.

Some atheists are believers, but the only thing that describes them as a whole is a lack of belief.

morethanpretty 04-16-2009 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint (Post 556922)
Beliefs should not be ranked according to benefit provided.

AMEN!

Shawnee123 04-16-2009 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint (Post 556922)
Beliefs should not be ranked according to benefit provided.

Seriously. People who say they believe "just in case" make me laugh most of all. "Just in case" means what? This god guy can't tell the difference between really believing and faking it to reap the everlasting rewards of heaven? :D

Cicero 04-16-2009 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 556515)

Does this exorcise that creepy ghost that was put inside you?

Tums will fix it. That or pepto. :D

Trust me on this. I am a spiritual leader.

Urbane Guerrilla 04-19-2009 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint (Post 556922)
Beliefs should not be ranked according to benefit provided.

And why not? Seems to me that's a big part of the whole point.

The atheist ends up believing -- very hard -- in a not-God. :rolleyes: Whoopee she-yit.

As a teenager, I might have gone atheist -- though that never quite happened. As a full adult, and getting older -- no. That isn't me or for me.

monster 04-19-2009 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla (Post 556759)
Atheists are believers too. They just believe in a very silly way, to scant benefit. It never appealed to me. I never got worse off than "not particularly religious."

What the fuck are you talking about? were you high when you posted this? you're usually at least coherent with a hint of intelligence (albeit misguided)

I'm atheist. I do have a belief. I believe there is no such thing as a divine being/God/afterlife/supernatural anything. How is that a silly way of believing? Silly is more about denying the noodly appendage of FSM. (Ramen).

Chicken is a good word. (even without the addition of "-flavored Ramen Noodles"). It is well applied to people who see the fallacy of religion, but are too superstitious to admit it. know any of them?


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