For example, can a moron be an atheist?
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Faith has nothing to do with a persons I.Q.
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atheist are fools!!\n\nthat's what the bible says about them. \n\nThe fool says in his heart, "There is no God." (Psalm 53:1) and this is said again in Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."\n\nit's not a matter of intelligent design, it's foolish not to believe in God the Lord Almighty.\n\nif you say that atheist believe what they see, then what Paul wrote in Romans is true...\n\nFor although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.(Romans 1:21-23)\n\nindeed, 'Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools'\n\nlook...you atheist, you can not see the air but that does not stop you from breathing. so, stop this foolishness. you perceive the air and you breathe...perceive also that God exists and believe.\n\nTake heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise? (Psalm 94:8)\n\nIn the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. (Acts 17:30)
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I surely am not trying to convert you. I am an atheist as well and proud of it. You do not have to be a christian to be able to treat people well, with honesty and respect.There is such stigma attached to atheists, that people believe we are devil worshipers etc. This is a myth. I just do not subscribe to the myth and folly of organized religion.
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It's not, that is just crap spouted by religious people who want to make you think you are missing out on something.\n\nBeing an atheist is as sad and lonely as not believing in Santa or the tooth fairy.
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What is the point in being a God if you cant draw circular triangles. What kind of a God z dat. God can create rectangular s holes against the cylindirical     c ocks ....        if she likes...\n\n Like square pegs in round holes exactly    ...s,hit away...,\n\n get lost body\n\ndumbass \n\nGod damn you\n\nYou arent a true atheist\nWhat is going on here I really cant understand  Am I a believer? Where is my wine bottle then?
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How much faith do you need to not believe there's an invisible unicorn in your backyard? You can't prove that there isn't. You can only believe that there isn't. An atheists disbelieves in God as much as you disbelieve in magical gnomes in your dresser. They can't be disproved, they're magical, but as a rational person you decide that there are no gnomes in your dresser, but there is a possibility that there are because you cannot monitor your dresser every day all the time. A religious person definitely has more faith than an atheist.
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Atheism is itself a religion, people who practice it accept on faith that there is no God. As such, they can be just as intolerant as members of any religion. Agnostics are wishy-washy theological bums that can't be bothered to have an opinion. The only way to truly practice principled secularism, is through Deism.
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Atheist.  Converting to the others would be like going from the frying pan into the fire.
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Whoever wrote that knows nothing about atheism. \n\nI have lifelong experience with atheism; I have read extensively on the subject and know many other atheists personally, and not once have I ever heard anyone claim that they thought themselves into existence.  It's foolish, and it's also out of character for realists, as atheists tend to be.\n\nI have also never encountered an atheist who "worships himself as a god."  \n\nThe writer also drastically misunderstands Descartes.  "I think, therefore I am" is intended as a statement of philosophical proof, not as a description of how one came to be.  It means "the observable fact that I think is proof that I exist," not "I created myself by thinking."\n\nThe writer clearly pulled this mess of supposition and imaginings out of thin air.  I doubt she's knowingly met a single atheist in her life.  I'm hard-pressed to imagine how that answer could be made any less correct and less informed than it is.
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yes\n\nThe Doctor of the Atheist Revolution has Spoken!
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An atheist can very well have a belief system.  Being an atheist just means that you lack belief in a god or gods.  An atheist could believe in UFOs, alien abductions, Santa Claus, etc.  \n\nI, however, am a skeptic, an Objectivist, a Bright (depending on the nomenclature you are using).\n\nI try to have as few belief as possible.  I try to hold a scientific worldview.  I take in data/information and try to understand what I am learning.  I make guesses/theories about how the data relate.  When I make up a guess, I then test it to make sure it's correct.  If it fails, then I continue to use that theory until a better one comes along.  If a better one comes along, then I reject the old one.\n\nA good example of this is the sunrise.  Do you believe that the sun rises in the East?  I don't.  I have a scientific theory that the earth rotates and revolves around the sun.  I test my theory every day because my theory PREDICTS the sun will appear on the eastern horizon.  \n\nYou might say that a scientific worldview cannot account for everything in reality.  Really?  Like what?  A soul?  I don't believe that exists either.\n\nI could be wrong.  Before bacteria were seen under a microscope, people believed that disease was  caused by disruptions of the 4 humours.  If I was a skeptic back then, I would have denied the existence of bacteria... until a scientific theory could come about and explain and predict their existence.  So if someone were to present to me concrete evidence of a god... then I would admit that I am wrong and become a believer.\n\n-------------------------------\nAgnosticism and atheism are kissing cousins.  Still, does a agnostic believe in Santa Claus?  Why or why not?  There is no evidence for Santa to exist... but there is always the possibility.  I deny Santa's existence, while a true agnostic could never say yes or no.\n\nBasically, there is a ton of bullhsit out there.  There are hundreds, if not thousands, of religions in the world.  This doesn't include ones that have died out or ones that have yet to be created.  I withhold belief until I find evidence for one that is correct.  Sure I could sometimes be wrong with my worldview/philosophy... but science/logic/rational thought has a far better track record in only a few hundred years than all of the history of religions.\n---------\nAlso, I think you have a misunderstanding on what a "freethinker" is.  A freethinker is someone who looks at life/reality without superstition... someone who uses rational thought.  There is no evidence for a supernatural being... so that falls outside of "freethinker".
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It is not a pre-mature assumption on your part.\n\nThe Atheists here are the great and powerful Oz, they know all.\n\nI am being sarcastic, of course...They do not know all, they only wrongly assume that they do.
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Sounds good, an atheist is someone that doesn't believe in God, has nothing to do with religion. Your outlook on God is a refreshing change from the usual dyed-in-the-wool pew sitter.
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I doubt it. There is a long tradition of Christian intellectualism (just ask the Jesuits). Read contemporary theological commentators like Spong and Borg and try to suggest that they're in possession of low IQs. Personally, I'm religious and hold a doctorate, something not generally awarded to idiots. Of course, I also know some very intelligent atheists...as well as a few prize-winning morons of that persusion. There are both bright and ignorant people from both camps, believing and non-believing.
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Of course you have the right to believe what you want.  Likewise, Agnostics and Atheists have the right to not believe what you want.  We simply can not understand how someone can believe something for which there is no evidence, much like I think you can't understand why someone can't just take it on faith.\n\nAs far as being mean, I think there are probably an equal amount of idiots on both sides.  It would be much nicer if everyone respected everyone else's right to believe or not believe without trying to convert one way or another or insult.
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I became an atheist when I was 16.  At 20, I became agnostic, because I think you can't prove or disprove anything epistemically.  But I know where you're coming from.
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No, atheism does, that why you can't even spell the word meNtal.\nMETAL HEAD!\nGo back to your Nintendo game, and leave the thinking to others!