I’ve realized I can’t change my religious wife.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Believers do not think god can create someone who is gay. In fact, god did not create you because you had parents. Most of us did too, and that includes the gay person.

Has anyone looked around lately and wondered of God only looks after his own?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

What is happening today is very plain really. It involved people losing their fear of crime and punishment in both political and religious realms. This makes the believers of (whatever) just keep on making it up. As for the "last days," Jesus told his followers that they were in the last days and some of them would live to see him coming back in glory. Anyone seen any 2000 year old men lately?

Laura forecast to hit Texas and Louisiana Coasts as a major hurricane. Stay safe my friends.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I'm not in the path but thanks for caring.

as an atheist, i find the idea of Satan appealing.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Satan as we know him today is part of god belief coming through a twisted and long road system to be what modern Christians want. This does not interest me because nothing is factual in the bible. At one point we have Lucifer, the light bearer, and a little evolution brings him around into a popular TV series character called "Lucifer." I think he is a cop in this one but I have not watched a single episode and could not care less.

It is often interesting how ancient terms, beliefs, and practices linger on into modern times but ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I always heard that saying "bless you" to a person who sneezed meant they were momentarily in between life and death. How would that work and be applied if they were swimming under water? Maybe too long of a period of time. IDK. As for "dog days" my aunt always said we could not go swimming in creeks or rivers coz it was August and therefore something about dog days. I suspect this did not stop dogs from swimming at all. I'm not sure dogs are superstitious.

One of my biggest issues with Christianity is the viral aspect—the directive to all believers to ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Christian believers cannot leave you alone. They think it is their duty to convert you and their book tells them so.

And we don't bitch about it because we fully understand we're responsible for making life and death ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Looks right to me.

Identities, mainly race, gender and sexual orientation, are today's substitute for religion.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I find it amazing. Before you put anything into religion I feel you would have to have a background in religion.

I recently watched Alex O'Connor's debate with two Muslims and as expected they used the usual ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Correct. Believers arguments for a god to exist start with a need for a god to exist. I've always thought that if a god existed he would cure all those poor kids at St. Jude who have cancer. Then I realized that it is all the sins of the fathers doing this. Besides, the founder of St. Jude was a Catholic. That just about does it for Baptists and Evangelicals.

Remember when Melania refused to hold his tiny little hand!

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

There is a clue here. Stormy said that his hand was not the only thing that was tiny.

I originally posted this thread, [agnostic.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

People keep changing things because of what they want you to believe.

One of my dearest siblings messaged me with a post she had seen.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Read this to learn more about fake tweets. The right is fighting AOC by making up false tweets about her.

God looks at what?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Yes he does, and he works in hysterical ways. :)

Growing up in a Christian home it was branded in my head literally from birth to "Love one another.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

I see this fully. In order to get along with everyone limit or completely kill you beliefs that cause you and others stress. If any belief system is stressful you do not want it and you do not want it on your fellow man.

How many more years...?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Religion as we know it today will be around in some form as long as others believe you can connect the dots.

Do you think vaping is WORSE than smoking cigarettes?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

When I read things like "someday science will invent a safe cigarette" I know in advance that it is written by as smoker.

Since God gives life, he can take life.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

I gave up looking at the world through a bible many years ago. The bible is a book made of many small books and it says nothing about America. Many people do not understand that.

Two important things you can take from this study 1) The virus is airborne.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

I have always thought that the virus is airborne. It just seems to make sense.

Susan B. Got him

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Do I see dead people? Gettin' close.

The turd has really lost it, now he is saying that Biden was not born here, isn't there a lost his ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Perhaps Drumpf was not born here either. His father was from Germany.

More proof of God - A Response - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

People that give proof have a dogma to follow and maintain. This means that they will be making a lot of things up in order to entertain the faithful. I know, I know, I know, I know. No you don't.

A note to all of you who continue to doubt me (re: consciousness)

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Most of us believe that without a body and brain that you have no consciousness. No one can prove otherwise without the intervention of all kinds of woo.

Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects President Trump's Pardon Of The Suffragist : NPR

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

What I hear on this is that those in charge of her National Museum would not accept the pardon. Good for them and shame on Donald Trump.

Many of your bios reflect my so-called religious back ground.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I'm sure I was baptized more than once. My Evangelical parents said their bibble claimed you had to re-do your first works if you drifted away from the church. Right now my daughters are scared crapless and are getting into religion and baptism again. Maybe their first time didn't take.

Question for you all concerning the terms atheist and agnostic.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I think you are on the right track here and much about any difference is written by theists or former theists. People simply do not like the word "atheist." I call myself an agnostic atheist.

Does anyone really care that there is no afterlife?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I have no proof that there is an afterlife. What I do know is that a NDE doesn't even come close to proving it one way or the other.

Today I was feeling abandoned and hopeless.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I hear you. This is the way religion operates.

I'm working on a case for demonstrating that all morality is ultimately subjective.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

My take on it is that the Christian has his mind made up already. His "conclusion" is pre-determined and he will use straw men to prove it. In the end the believer is stuck just making things up. This is the same with the non-believer but we have no dogma and therefore nothing to make up.

Just when you think you've heard it all, you learn that masks are a pagan practice.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Exactly so and well said.

In fairness, if a society accepts religion, it should accept any organization that warps a child's ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Disney keeps on trying. The white fascists just do not want to believe it.

Well, it happened. Someone that I respect is a Qanon believer. It's so fucking dumb. I just can't.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I have a former friend who is into this and we no longer talk or visit. His idea was also to shoot and kill people at our Southern border because "Trump would be OK with it." By this man's thinking I should have been shot when I went to Kenya without a visa in 2004. Some of these people also believe in Lizard People. Maybe they watch too much Star Trek.

Little Johnny has something to say! [facebook.com]

DenoPenno comments on Aug 21, 2020:

Somebody added different words. I agree with little Johnnie but Trump would never go for this.

Reasoning with a republican

DenoPenno comments on Aug 21, 2020:

This seems to hit it all right on the head.

Einstein’s Religion . [agnostic.] . .

DenoPenno comments on Aug 21, 2020:

Mathematics.

There's an ampersand in there somewhere, but basically this guy choose a shirt that says he runs on ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 21, 2020:

If they keep this up Jesus will be afraid and never come back. :)

Hey guys.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 21, 2020:

Everyone alive should be taught critical thinking skills. Many people simply start out with pre-conceived ideas and this is not good enough.

I feel like I'm in the closet.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 21, 2020:

Many people struggle as you do. I'm at an age where I am beyond that. As for your brother, he already sounds like a Deist.

Makes no sense

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

Self explanatory so no Trump for me. He wants to take down social security, medicare, and medicaid and end these programs permanently.

Eva Marie Saint, Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1924.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

I remember Eva Marie. :)

Robert Plant | 'If I Were A Carpenter' [youtube.com]

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

If I were a carpenter And your name was Sadie Would you marry me anyway And even if you did not Would you have my baby

Georgia School Principal: COVID-19 Is ‘God’s Cleansing Plan’ | Michael Stone

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

What an idiot. He would have fit very well into the world of Columbus.

Christianity,Islam,and Judaism all seem to be far fetched to me but I get my head around the ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

A simple following of evolution and survival of the fittest will take care of that. Gods have nothing to do with it.

LOL! Sometimes I'm just so glad I don't know many white middle-aged Republican women.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

How unhinged are these people? I think they are all trying out for a show business career. They remind me of some of the idiots I work with.

US couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters 'to speak at Republican convention' - BBC News

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

Trump will have only the best people so immediately he started hiring crooks. Trumpers like him because they think like he does.

When is Jesus coming back? The question on the lips of almost every believer.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

When is Jesus coming back? All I know for sure is that some of his first followers are still alive. He said that some of them would still be alive when he returned.

If anyone is the slightest bit interested in why I feel the Admin has created a moral crisis for ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

I'm not in a moral crisis and the idea of being "woke" makes me laugh. I find that people who claim to be woke are simply misinformed.

What would Jesus do? I just saw this Meme and thought it was funny....

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

This is exactly what Jesus would do and this is not a baptism. I posted it on my FB page last year.

I sent a "Hello" to numerous gals at Agnostic, and I only got a response from one of them.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

When I joined this site I was not looking for a significant other. It's hard for me to imagine that I would give up the bit of nothing that I have in order to be with someone here. Anything is possible but I am not desperately trying to change my situation.

Human Character

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

I think most people want to be looked at as good. Being good is another story. Wanting to belong makes people do strange things good and bad.

Hi, I'm fairly new here.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

I have no religious impulse. I fit in nowhere in a religious world and I also am not trying to fit into such a world.

Why is modern religion so intoxicating for some people—the most fervent?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 17, 2020:

I was never able to get the Holy Goat. :)

Isn't life exciting on Agnostic.com?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 17, 2020:

It is time to realize that these people have a "god given right." I have searched the bibble cover to cover and cannot find that right.

Catholic voters' impossible choice

DenoPenno comments on Aug 17, 2020:

When abortion becomes an issue in elections it appears to me we have went a little too far.

There are many well known atheists, agnostics and scientists who have said, and without much ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 17, 2020:

I only tried to imagine heaven while in my church daze. The whole idea is preposterous !

What color was Jesus?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 17, 2020:

Why are we worried about the color of Jesus and why would I care? The only reason I can find is to personalize the Jesus experience.

What about NDE's (Near Death Experiences)?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 17, 2020:

Why not? The person was not dead, they were near death. Your brain gets all confused at this state. The body laying wherever it is at this point does not go anywhere. It has what we call an NDE that some use to explain their "after death" experiences. To even go this far you have to invent a "soul" that many think you are given at birth. (The breath of life.) Others use the soul idea to immediately claim they are immortal. This looks like a setup to explain what you want to believe. This is all done without involving ectoplasm like they did years ago. I'm not impressed.

The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered [msn.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 14, 2020:

It is even greater than this. Trump has already said that if he is re-elected he will dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid next year. His method is in doing away with payroll taxes by Executive Order. Surprise ! If this is done you have no Social Security and the needed programs die off. Even a 401K started at birth would not produce enough money to take care of your medical needs. What about mom and dad, grandma and grandpa -- or even yourself? Someone needs to stop this maniac.

Perhaps I’m not as confident in my ability to discuss religion or philosophy or even politics.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 14, 2020:

This is true. I find that many people debating or arguing religion actually had a preconceived idea to start with. Why would I go on and on with them when I know the outcome they desire? Just take Evangelical religion for a moment. Your perfect god decided that humans should get here through incest. Believers point out that mankind was sinful. What sin was it? God got so angry he wanted to destroy every one with water. When the 8 people he saved emerge from the Ark he (god) once again wants to populate the earth through incest. This process is repeated another time with Lot and his daughters. At this point we either have to admit that the story is true -- or not. If the story is not true then the bible book is done. It tells you only lies.

We seem to have a sudden influx of pagans, hello, i wonder have you travelled through the humanist ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Do we have more Pagans now?

This is the explosive change of perspective that has happened for me, personally, after I became an ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Ricky is exactly correct.

FACT! Or, why it is asinine to believe in the proposition "you have your opinion and I have ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 14, 2020:

If we respect opinions then the serial rapist or murderer would also have to be correct. People may think they have a right to say or do whatever they want to but I do not share that opinion.

Annie Glenn, wife of late astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn, dies of coronavirus

DenoPenno comments on Aug 13, 2020:

When you are 100 years old do you really die of COVID and why would such a test be put upon someone that age. At 100 you sometimes just go to sleep. I doubt that there are tests used to verify a death of someone this age.

I went to catholic schools for 12 years even though my mother never took me to service.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 13, 2020:

My mother ran away from the JW's to become a rouge Pentecostal. My stepfather was once a Free Will Baptist. Mix that all up and you have the confusion I came out of.

How many people feel they live in the wrong part of the country to meet like-minded people?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 13, 2020:

This goes deeper with me. I'm in the wrong time period. I do not like apps, games, the current media stance, and everybody selling you something. I am never smiling down at my phone with thumbs working away. I have to shut down parts of Microsoft permanently to get the operating system I want. I have never met anyone like minded in this. Maybe someday.

A random reflection about someone's question to me, "Are you religious?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 13, 2020:

There was a time when I believed in all sorts of woo and could tell you all about it. Almost anything supernatural is misunderstanding or can go back to woo. Some people want to ague "what if" with you. I do not find that a valid argument.

Will Trump seize the opportunity to innoculate Americans with the Russian developed C19 vaccine?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 13, 2020:

This could be true **OR** it might go in reverse. The big Russian experiment on a vaccine could convince many that a vaccine is useless. I say this because the name of the game is confusion. Always confusion.

Come on, Trump Christians! The book of Job! It's all about the job.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

More hogwash. Too ad i don't have hogs.

Christian Bigot Flips Out After Airbnb Guest’s Review Tells People Who He Is | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Idiots seem to want to shoot people who do not agree with them. I wonder why? Trump says there were good people on both sides. Lying wishy washy president.

Today I saw a video "I CAN DO ALL THROUGH CHRIST" where the mannequin called Melania is exhorting ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

I don't believe a word of it. This is as phony as the billboard I saw recently near the town I work in. It says "Jesus and Trump in 2020."

Can anyone confirm this rumor?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Total bullshit.

This - from yet another social media discussion on Covid.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

If you want to get rid of the evil ones vote blue in November. Gods have nothing to do with it.

Mississippi Says Including Giant Mosquito State Flag Redesign Was a Mistake

DenoPenno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

It tells me that if you like mosquitos just go to Mississippi.

Thanks to Everyone that responded to my last post about red flags.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Do not follow what others say. I have childhood friends that I am still in touch with but we are not Facebook friends. The reason is that just like me and my ex wife we have gone in different directions. Ignore so called facts about Online dating. The bottom line here to me is that too many people have a herd mentality.

Someone shared this on my Facebook: 🙏🙏🙏Truth!!! While at Walmart this morning I was ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

I agree with you and I see plenty of it. None of it has to do with any gods. I see revivals outside in tents and so many fearful people. Two areas of my little community of 1599 are doing tent revivals and bible talk is the thing of the day. This is insanity. Even the corporation I work for is talking nonsense in the magazines they put out for us to read. I tried to read one on lunch break and immediately thought " WTF are they talking about?" We are being targeted and set up for something. I think it is a world without social security taxes and all that pays for us. Those in power would be happy if you worked 2 or 3 jobs and did it all from home. I refuse to left them stress me. You cannot be happy and also be stressed.

Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as VP!!

DenoPenno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Good choice. I have been predicting that Kamala would be the VP pick. :)

Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate - CNNPolitics

DenoPenno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

I have said for a few weeks that Kamala Harris would be the VP pick.

"Do you agree Twitter is targeting Trump?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Somebody should be targeting Trump.

How do you like Biden's cabinet?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

The only thing I see here is that Harris will most likely be VP.

[m.youtube.com] Indoctrination as a child 😇

DenoPenno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Dave Allen was classic. :)

Hi Everyone, I am working on trying to identify red flags.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Beware of any guy who tells you that you are talking to so many guys other than him.

God's True Purpose The way I see it, God's only real use is as an escape from death.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 10, 2020:

I think you got it. :)

I get the idea that people usually call themselves Agnostic out of fear that using the name Atheist ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Beyond that many calling themselves "agnostic" seem to think they are still a believer. I do not believe in woo of any kind.

Where are you on the Political Compass.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Why do I want to go through this? I'm a political activist and my belief is "never Trump." If people do not understand this perhaps they are blind and deaf. Outside of being a liar Trump was a Reality TV star. He needs to be expelled from politics ASAP. My beliefs include quality healthcare and clean food and water for all. Equal housing for all. We want this now.

Here’s a question for those of you who love and listen to music.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Very good quality for live.

My three worst internet dates

DenoPenno comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Sorry that you are having such a problem with this. My situation is different but websites are starting to ask me if I wanna go on a "virtual date." Hell, no. What would that be? Could we have a "virtual dinner" as well?

While on a long drive recently, I was listening to a show on NPR about immortality and time.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 9, 2020:

I would not mind living my earlier days over again but only if I had the knowledge that I have today. Going back in time to re-live everything again would be hell.

I watched the memorial service for a good friend today.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

I can agree with that. I don't want Jesus to have anything to do with my final state.

Poor Franklin, such a disappointment!! "No, we're not a Christian country, we've never been a ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Franklin is afraid that our current trend is taking us away from his religion. I certainly hope that it is.

"In Sweden, “two-thirds of deaths have been among those over 80, and 97% never received ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Don't believe everything you read. People are at work even now to try and make you believe that socialized medicine is a rip. Why is this so? American organizations make lots of money on Medicare. They do not want our current system to stop. If you do not believe me try watching TV commercials.

"Seriously?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

I was put off by all of it. I know that Trump only has one friend and that is himself.

Is your Android phone (assuming you have one) have the chip with the vulnerability ?

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

I pay little attention to my phone and I shut off everything that I am not using. My view is that nobody has a right to try and sell me something on a device that I pay for. I do this on computers as well. I shut down Microsoft items that are not needed.

Televangelist Joyce Meyer: You Need To Be Stupid To Believe In God | Michael Stone

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Many stupid people do believe in gods. Gullibility and superstition are behind this along with a strong fear of death.

Vatican In Shock As 1,500-Year-Old Bible Claims Jesus Wasn’t Crucified

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

I can see this entirely. It is just as unlikely that Jesus had an audience with Pilot, or that the two even spoke the same language. Search further and it gets downright stupid.

Greetings Admins.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Maybe so. I log in often without the use of a Weeping Hen. :)

Christian Activist: Country Music Contains Magic ‘Spells’ That Change Human DNA | Michael Stone

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Very true. If you play the song backwards you will get all kinds of Satanic stuff. Play it backwards long enough and you might even get your dog back.

Scientists Disagree on the Universe’s Age, So Creationists Are Claiming Victory | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Creationists always claim victory. They even try to tell me what I just said when I said nothing like they are posting to start with.

Have a question to ask that is medical in nature, but I am NOT a medical professional.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Maybe this should be talked about but I see no real evidence for most of us that a deficiency is causing anything. If you feel differently try pushing supplements for this problem.

Good news! Joe Arpaio lost the primary for his old job as sheriff.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

All is proof that old Joe should not be a sheriff in the first place.

Hiding in the White House: [truthout.org]

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Is Trump trying to steal the election to avoid indictment? Of course. I think he knows that once he is not POTUS all hell is going to break lose against him.

Trump wants young people to gaze in wonder at Yo Semite.

DenoPenno comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Is that "yo's might?" Maybe to Trump it is. Are his followers as smart as he is, or do they all just think alike?