I'm hoping that people here are more open minded than self described atheists.
after lurking & occasionally posting at an atheist site for a few months i found that most of them were engaging in group-think on almost every subject that came up. they didn't want any dissenters on any subject they all agreed on.
i don't believe in a personal god or an after life. the only thing i'm certain of is that nothing is certain.
They tend to block you after a few comments
Who is they, atheists? I'm an avowed atheist, and I've never blocked anyone over the year I've been here.
@David1955 I have not been either and I often while not rude do not pull punches. I have found that you do address issues with no fear and CLASS!
Who is "they"? I've only had one person block me and I think she blocks everybody who disagrees with her extremely out there thinking.
I said this before but, the big division is between holding groundless belief or not, the niceties within scepticism are tiny and unimportant compared with that. Some may think that they are on a higher rung of the ladder than others, and that may be true, but the really important thing is to have looked up and started the climb out of the cesspit of ignorance and prejudice which is blind unquestioning faith, looking at the light and not swimming nose down among the sludge where the users want to keep you. Therefore it is cruel and unfair to despise those who use a different ladder or can not climb quite as fast, and for that reason I always call myself a 'Broard Church Sceptic.'
I am an atheist. The term open minded is often used in such a way as to say you should accept my ideas no matter how ridiculous. I was open minded enough that I was able to explore what was real and not real and wise enough to accept what was real even if I did not like it. Even if it meant there was no god.
Gravity does exist of that I am sure most of us are certain. So some things can be certain.
Any religion that does not have an actual god is dependent upon faith.
There is no religion that is not dependent upon faith.
Of this I am certain.
"I am hoping" you are more specific with your statement/concern/question.. cannot tell what you are stating or asking or hoping... I am hoping for rainbow sherbet.. it's a delicious treat sometimes..
Hahaha self described atheists. good one. We're all atheists. Just some humans believe in just one of the gods humans worship and believe the rest don't exist. I just go one step further. I don't believe any of them exist. There is an after life. We're just not around to experience it cause we don't exist anymore. And it is certain life on this planet will expire in about 3 billion years when our dying star consumes it, if not sooner.