De-Baptism

[Cloud]

Spotted this little news story at Time:

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

. . . 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]

Only if you use a hair dryer.

[Sundae]

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]

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

[Cloud]

I'd tend to agree.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

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]

We believe in a silly way? Ok.

[sugarpop]

I found that amusing as well Dana.

[Flint]

They just believe in a very silly way, to scant benefit.

Beliefs should not be ranked according to benefit provided.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Atheists are believers too.

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

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by Flint

Beliefs should not be ranked according to benefit provided.

AMEN!

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Flint

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?

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by Cloud

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

Tums will fix it. That or pepto.

Trust me on this. I am a spiritual leader.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Flint

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. 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]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

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?