Awesome response. I'm glad I'm not alone in this. So glad we have an online community of like-minded people! My child is still to young to understand concepts of a god. He parrots what teachers and grandparents teach him. And that is scary!

@Biblebeltskeptic When my kids ask me how I felt about god, I paused for a second and said, that was a good question, then I asked, how do you feel about god?
I didn’t want to force my beliefs on them, I wanted them to arrive at their own conclusion. Turns out 25 years later they are both atheists. Darn skeptics, where did they ever get that curious thinking from.?

@Triphid When my kids ask me how I felt about god, I paused for a second and said, that was a good question, then I asked, how do you feel about god?
I didn’t want to force my beliefs on them, I wanted them to arrive at their own conclusion. Turns out 25 years later they are both atheists. Darn skeptics, where did they ever get that curious thinking from.?

@Biblebeltskeptic I just found out about an hour ago that my nearly 6 year old has just been asking questions that have 'upset' ( would you believe it, UPSET by a 6 year old) asking questions of her, a very out-spoken Christian Teacher, at his Public School WHY she believes there is a God that she can't she or hear?"
When told by the Teacher he MUST apologise to her and God for saying such a thing, Henry just replied with, " Why, you told us to ask questions?"
Henry's Mum and Dad are both Atheists, his Grandfather is also as am I and wishing to seem boastful, Henry has been a very curious, outspoken and questioning child since not long after he really started to talk and understand what he was talking about.
Henry has been a fairly fluent reader since about 4 years of age simply because we all have encouraged and helped him learn to read, write and ask question of course.
The School Principal was called in by Henry's Teacher in an attempt to set a punishment for him, possibly Detention, but instead the Principal told the Teacher and the class that " By asking questions is how people actually learn and Teachers SHOULD always try to answer the questions put to them Honestly and Truthfully."

@Triphid Sounds like that teacher is the one that needs to learn.

@Vintenar I think she got that, though unexpectedly from the School Principal.
It looks like the 4 of us adults have created yet another Atheist in young Henry now.

@linxminx You're welcome.

I felt so sorry for the man who was struggling so much to understand but not able to.

Yes, true. But at a Fundamental Baptist Church, everyone assumed it's Yahweh.

@Biblebeltskeptic ok, now that we define a god and that the other person wants to go into a discussion...

You can go for the annoying "But what about the other gods of love? Why not cupidus?"

Or for the more rational
"Ok, now that we named a god, what evidence do you have that this god is real and the others are not?"

I couldn't agree more. How do they skip over that!! All the punishment are so over-the-top. I will never use the Bible for parenting advice!

I was only there to see my mother-in-law. She has cancer and I wanted to cheer her up. But I was posting in agnostic.com during the altar call.

Rick, though I agree coming out is liberating, coming from South Carolina and the mother of two children could make it difficult for her. She doesn’t need to be chastised for having a brain. This part of the country has a difficult time with reality.. I think it is very different for men.

@rpmazzella Amen!

True. But every time something like that is brought up to them, they say that it's sin's curse. I was taught as a child that all bad things come from sin and Satan, and all good things come from God.

@Biblebeltskeptic That is even more nonsense of the highest kind because little children are not sinners.

@Jolanta, I agree. It is nonsense and it's a very dangerous way of thinking.

Awesome!

Haha, yeah. But this is a baptist Church, so everyone already assumed it's Yahweh. It's sad people believe this without a doubt.

@Biblebeltskeptic sad, but my answer was to your question not to what happened in the temple.

@Grahame Don't be so judgemental, rather think a little. Lol. - The way I see it, the major activity of the clergy is centered on raping children.

@Grahame Don't call me arrogant you stupid zero IQ dogshit!

@Grahame scum misogynist like you are scaring our closet Atheist in Taylor S Carolina and insulting our truth telling Atheist Zesty.......this community is dedicated to building up Atheists and helping victims of religion.....perhaps you enjoyed being sexually molested by your priest ?

It's her parents preacher....she is an Atheist poor mom dependent upon parents for a place to live and babysitting

@GreenAtheist Hmmm, yes, I wouldn't suggest doing so, but it would be an excellent "test" of god's love in action.

Mom, Dad, ...I don't believe in god anymore.

GET OUT!!!!!!

That comment was sent to me in a text by my brother, after I said, "Love you, bro". I guess I'm now incapable of loving my brother. Lol

@Biblebeltskeptic This is a very good example on who the person and/or circumstances... No matter what, your brother always will be your brother. You cannot control what he say/think but you can control how to react. It's your choice. I wouldn't argue with my siblings over any of this and boy do they try....

@LetzGetReal the desire to reproduce? Yeah I have no desire either, but the reason I have a high sex drive is evolutionarily still because of that drive to reproduce. Some people are asexual of course and have both no intellectual or instinctual urge to do anything remotely related to sexual activity and that’s fine too. Just speaking in the broadest generalizations, that’s what led to happy feelings being tied to sex for most of us. Of course “love” and the same reward system still exists without sex, it naturally feels good to be connected to and secure with someone no matter how those feelings express themselves. It’s still rewarded because those are cooperations conducive to survival.

I like that thumbnail picture. It's like taking God's words and inserting Atheist. But this time, it's true.

@Biblebeltskeptic I have used it for years, when defending my son who came out publicly as an atheist was the first time I used it publicly. I've had printed copies since at least the early 90s. Like many of my old prints, I have no idea where the originally came from.

Agreed! There's a book I want to read called "Alpha God". It's about the pattern of the evolutionary thinking of the authors of the Bible and how God in the Bible is depicted as an egotistical alpha male.