Exactly!

I love it when xtians assume that I'm angry at god. I swear to nobody, I am not pissed off at your imaginary friend any more than you are upset with Santa Claus for shit you didn't get.

For me, the ability to sin without even doing any harm is the hook.

I went because all the cool kids are atheists.

None of my family are religious in any way and when I first went to grammar school our R.E teacher gave each of us a random passage out of the bible and we were asked to comment on it for homework - My text was about Rahab the Harlot - I asked my dad what a Harlot was and he shuffled around shiftily and theb wrote a letter to my teacher saying that if she was going to teach this stuff then she was going to have to explain what a Harlot was , because he wouldnt. I don't remember being enlightened by a red faced teacher.

I feel almost bad for changing the number of likes from 69 to 70, because I'm 12.
But yeah, 100%. This is what they sell in church concerning atheists, and it's how believers approach the conversation and end up looking like idiots.
"Jesus never said follow Xtians, he said follow me."
"If you left the church bc of bad xtians, your faith was in them not god."
"You're just angry at god"
"You hate god."
"You just want to sin as much as you like."
"Where do you get your morals?"
Interdimensional Eyeroll

That covers it for me. The problem was that it took me so damned long to come to this conclusion. Now I have people looking at my age and saying I'd best turn that atheism around. One believer I have known since age 12 tells me that "one day I'm gonna wake up in a place I don't want to be." OK. If I die how am I gonna wake up?

Those of us who are educated and basically intelligent are the ones who not only question, but make the effort to find answers are the ones who are far more likely to know the truth. Christianity specifically, was created by Constantine and with one motive. He wanted help controlling the common people.

So... If you're mad at God, you can't actually be an atheist...

How very true.

Spot on!

Twoblues are misleading-whoever put this together-needs a class on graphing.

I really like it too !

I'll be darned, and I'm not a sock.

The inquisitions gave rise to the attitude expressed by many today. Absolving heresy and free thinking across Europe gave Xtians the ball and they ran with it. Imagine a society where intelligence and true freedom ruled. If there is a god then we are it. When in a debate and questioned about my beliefs I say that I serve no master, giving them a little something to think about. Proving or disproving the existence of a god is a waste of time. we're (atheists) here. let's just lead by example how good life can be without being enslaved to a deity.

Traumatic experience and anger with god combined with my previous cognitive dissonance over religion and led to increased investigation. Negative feelings are insufficient to sustain my present position. Philosophical, historical and scientific arguments are the basis for my views.

Yep I.m true blue too.

This is the one answer they never seem to get, either. It's assumed that if we did our homework we'd be good little believers, too.

Perfect

Blue all the way since around the age of 12

cute, but pretty simplistic

it is called logic!

I've read the babbling book of BS a few times and knew from the get go that it was nothing but nonsense!

Good answer!

Good one !