Save your kids!

I'm not sure whether to tell bạn my emidiate feeling when I meet an Athiest, because it's probably the most patronising, horrible thing for me to feel in their eyes, but I honestly can't help how I feel. Please don't kill me, because I AM awear that the stuff I say can sound patronising, I just don't know how else to say it... If I ask bạn for one thing it's that bạn DON'T read this trying to look for an argument, hoặc for fault, hoặc to oppose it completely - but that bạn have an open mind.

I don't want to convert you. bạn have free will for a reason and you've chosen not to believe - but I want...

A few weeks cách đây at my workplace I was approached bởi a very visible, though homeless, religious man. He asked me if I were religious in which I replied with a nonchalant "No."

From there it seemed as if all hell was breaking loose. He started badgering me and saying that because I was baptized as a small child I'm ultimately "damned to Hell" for my "families mistakes".

Perhaps I should have just upped and walked away.. but for one, I was never in this particular situation, and since he was a paying customer, I sort of felt compelled to put up with his bullshit because I didn't want him to cause...

I found this on a blog site called link and thought it might be good for us to share some of our thoughts about Atheism! bạn can answer some, all, hoặc none of the questions. Feel free to either leave your các câu trả lời in a bình luận hoặc bạn could set up your own soapbox bài viết with your answers.


Q1. How would bạn define “atheism”?



Q2. Was your upbringing religious? If so, what tradition?



Q3. How would bạn describe “Intelligent Design”, using only one word?



Q4. What scientific endeavour really excites you?



Q5. If bạn could change one thing about the “atheist community”, what would it be and...