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"The Methodists preach about heaven,
The Baptists preach about hell;
The Atheists preach this is all that there is
So you damn better live it well."

Did I make this up? Or is it part of a song?

Wallace 7 Aug 9
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I don't think I've ever preached anything apart from non-violence in my activist days. I certainly never preached atheism. Preaching is a particular type of speech, not just any old speech but a specific type trying to win over converts. Even when writing to agnostics on this forum, I limit myself to asking if they are atheists as far as the easter bunny and the tooth fairy. That's a straight forward question, not preaching. So I think this song has it wrong.

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twill Level 7 Aug 15, 2020
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As an atheist I don't sell a lot of opinion, I just question yours.

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All you need a backing track:

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Funny what people will debate....

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I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 
also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.  - Ecclesiastes 3:12, 13.

If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” - 1 Corinthians 15: 32b.

Take your pick!

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John Lennons 'Imagine', kind of hits those points.

No John, you were not the only one, and I am keeping that dream alive in your stead as well as for future Generations.
Vale John Lennon.

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Give it time....if not, it'll be such a waste....has the basics of a country tune.

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I certainly don't know, others have Googled that, I prefer we are stardust, we are golden. 😁

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I've never preached atheism and I don't know anyone who did.

Widen the scope of "preach" .....you know like its not a dirty word.

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No atheist ever knocked on my door to try to convert me. I don't preach to anyone. If people cannot use logic and intelligence to figure things out themselves, then people can stay in their delusional fairytale life and beliefs.

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A Google search on the first two lines did not bring up any song lyrics. This doesn't mean you didn't hear it in a song, but not one popular enough to have been written out where Google can find it.

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It sounds familiar but I cannot place it

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Possibly...but if not already it should be! 😁

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I wouldn't care one way or another, although non believers do not preach at all.

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Atheists don't preach. Or come to your door to impose their beliefs on you. These are important distinctions.

@Allamanda That's not my experience but I'd be willing to consider your evidence.

@Allamanda Dawkins is a world-renowned expert in evolutionary biology. The public discussion of his field is not a reasonable interpretaton of "preaching" within the context discussed by the OP.

@Allamanda Atheism is inherent to Dawkin's expertise in evolutionary biology.

You seem like you're looking for an argument, but I have a very busy day ahead and this is not a good use of my time.

@LovinLarge Excuse me, but NO ONE has 'evidence' about atheism. About evolutionary biology, I'll listen.

@Storm1752 The evolutionary development of humankind is evidence relevant to atheism as to the absence of a creator, but you completely misunderstood the argument which was about the fact that atheists don't preach.

I'm starting to smell the agnostic vs. atheist argument here, again unworthy of my time.

@LovinLarge just love it when people get "time-conscious"

@HankSherman Spoken like someone whose time has little value.

@LovinLarge lol. Yep, got me pegged.....just one of the reasons I like reading this site so much....fills my time with intertainment...better than t.v., almost equal to a decent book,.....

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I HOPE you just made it up.

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Probably a song somewhere.

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