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My Muslim friend asked how I feel as an atheist to which I said the same as when I was born. ?

Hel71 4 June 12
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"I feel pretty intelligent", said I.

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The same as any indoctrinated zealot. Nerve endings send signals to my brain whenever stimulated. My brain interprets the message. And I react accordingly, if all is right in my brain.
Seriously, I don't feel the burden of trying to please any god.

Kipper Level 4 June 13, 2018
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Excellent answer.

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Feel what? I usually use my fingers or toes.

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That's why christians have to be born again.

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Brilliant answer, especially if it was posed as a loaded question which it often is. 👍

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i feel enlightened and relieved... like a ton of bullshit was lifted out of my life

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I would have said "I feel like a human". Just me tho.

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Are Muslims typically even more entreched in thier religion than most christian evangelicals?

Religious fundamentalism is the same everywhere, only the branding changes.

They have liberal, moderate and fundamentalist wings just like Christians. It's just that their fundamentalist camp is quite a bit larger percentage of the whole. It's something of a debate whether that's somehow inherent in Islam, or (as I feel) its more a function of the grinding hopelessness and poverty that dominates most of the Muslim population concentrations. Of course THEN the open question is how much of that misery is a result of Islam, and whether Christianity, allowed to run wild, wouldn't produce the same amount of human suffering.

Ultimately I think part of the problem is that Islam's "enlightenment" was stillborn, and failed to moderate it. Fundamentalist influences killed it in its cradle. And that's too bad, because we owe a lot of basic stuff to the Arab world, like the invention of the concept of zero, which was important to the invention of algebra.

I would say yes after being friends with devout Muslims unlike "moderate" Muslims.

@archer5691 I never said it was anything Christians or the West did to them. And I would agree they have largely done it to themselves. Doesn't really change the dynamic though.

As for their dogma being more likely to be interpreted literally or violently -- I haven't studied the Quaran and so have no opinion on it. I still tend to suspect that Christianity is less overtly violent because of accidents of history and a craftier, more deniable sort of cruelty under the hood; but ... I don't claim to know. I'm just vey wary of anything that auto-otherizes outsiders.

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Brilliant reply

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Tell him still with your hands.

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LOL! Perfect!

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