Looks like Atheism is becoming a religion in itself

[kydoty]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/17/atheists-reportedly-using-hair-dryers-baptize/?test=latestnews

BTW, being mad that your parents baptized you as a baby is very ungrateful and very immature. You're not forced to follow the religion once you become an adult, but at the very least, they gave you the option to do so.

[domenick2x]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/17/atheists-reportedly-using-hair-dryers-baptize/?test=latestnews

BTW, being mad that your parents baptized you as a baby is very ungrateful and very immature. You're not forced to follow the religion once you become an adult, but at the very least, they gave you the option to do so.
That's idiocy.

If you are truly atheist, then you believe that the water you were sprinkled with was water, and not Holy - as there is no God.

Any such 'removal' ritual is akin to blasphemy - if atheism believed in that.

[kydoty]

That's idiocy.

If you are truly atheist, then you believe that the water you were sprinkled with was water, and not Holy - as there is no God.

Any such 'removal' ritual is akin to blasphemy - if atheism believed in that.

That actually sounds more like Satanism than Atheism.

[thrasymachus]

I personally think people who follow any sort of organized atheism are morons.

[domenick2x]

That actually sounds more like Satanism than Atheism.
No, not exactly. They weren't advocating Satan, they were simply rejecting their baptism. By suggesting that baptism DOES have meaning, they are accepting that God exists - with doesn't jive with atheism. It's not even agnostic. It's more like a deist view - God exists, yet I choose not to follow the Christian religion.

[thrasymachus]

No, not exactly. They weren't advocating Satan, they were simply rejecting their baptism. By suggesting that baptism DOES have meaning, they are accepting that God exists - with doesn't jive with atheism. It's not even agnostic. It's more like a deist view - God exists, yet I choose not to follow the Christian religion.
I don't think it's deist either. It's hypocritical no matter what their view. Even if they are deist, god wouldn't care if they were baptized so going through all of this ritualistic shit to remove the baptism would be useless.

[Jesse Helms' Ghost]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/17/atheists-reportedly-using-hair-dryers-baptize/?test=latestnews Hair dryer???

Let's just hope that one of 'em doesn't drop a hair dryer into some water otherwise they might get the answer to whether there really is a God or not sooner than they thought.

[Jesse Helms' Ghost]

No, not exactly. They weren't advocating Satan, they were simply rejecting their baptism. By suggesting that baptism DOES have meaning, they are accepting that God exists - with doesn't jive with atheism. It's not even agnostic. It's more like a deist view - God exists, yet I choose not to follow the Christian religion.I don't think it's deist either. It's hypocritical no matter what their view. Even if they are deist, god wouldn't care if they were baptized so going through all of this ritualistic shit to remove the baptism would be useless.
"I was baptized Catholic. I don't remember any of it at all," said 24-year-old Cambridge Boxterman. "According to my mother, I screamed like a banshee ... so you can see that even as a young child I didn't want to be baptized. It's not fair. I was born atheist, and they were forcing me to become Catholic."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/17/atheists-reportedly-using-hair-dryers-baptize/?test=latestnews


Here's an interesting conversation that a group of us on a different board got into:

When we are born, are we born with the predisposition to believe in a 'God' or not???

A secondary question might be to ask whether the society we're born into is what drives/influences our beliefs that a 'God' exist.

Game on.....

[domenick2x]

Here's an interesting conversation that a group of us on a different board got into:

When we are born, are we born with the predisposition to believe in a 'God' or not???

A secondary question might be to ask whether the society we're born into is what drives/influences our beliefs that a 'God' exist.

Game on.....

Wow... that's an interesting question. I don't know how you'd ever prove that a predisposition exists, short of having some wolf-boy explain his views on God. However, if there IS a predisposition, my first question would be 'which God'?


I think that regardless of whether there is a predisposition or not, the secondary question trumps it - the social aspects overlay everything.

[Iron Jaw]

Sounds like a movie starring Gregory Peck!

[Jesse Helms' Ghost]

Wow... that's an interesting question. I don't know how you'd ever prove that a predisposition exists, short of having some wolf-boy explain his views on God. However, if there IS a predisposition, my first question would be 'which God'?


I think that regardless of whether there is a predisposition or not, the secondary question trumps it - the social aspects overlay everything. Doesn't matter 'which God'.

The question relates to whether or not a person is predisposed to believe in a deity- not which religion they're likely to follow.

And it's not a matter of 'proving' this out as fact. It made for a great *discussion* since nobody really can 'prove' one side over another.