who was the first fool to become an atheist?
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...I DONT THINK ANYONE KNOWS THAT...YOU SHOULD JUST LET EVERYONE BELIEVE WUT THEY WANT TO BELIEVE WHETER THEY'RE BEING FOOLISH OR NOT IN YOUR OPINION! :)
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Ya know that is a good question.I have known a few atheists.Just because one is an atheist,does not mean that they are bad to the bone.I knew a very nice person that was an atheist,and was one of the kindest people I ever knew.I believe this persons morals came from within.This person went out of their way to help those in need,and to try to help make this a better world in which to live.I honestly believe that some people become atheist because of all the bad things that have always happened on earth and always will happen.And they believe that IF there was a GOD he would make it all stop for the better of man kind.They cannot conceive in their minds that a loving god would continue to allow all the bad things to keep happening.And some atheist has a lot more morals than other people i have known.what i fail to understand is how some christians are so quick to judge other people and in the same stroke so quick to keep their sins hush-hush.Not all christians but some do do that.
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Atheist-A person who does not believe in a deity,deities or higher power.It's from the Greek word theos,which means god, and the 'a' preceeding it means without.
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I am most likly going to become an atheist, I guess right now I am  a christian, but after I spent some time actually reading the bible I am coming to the conclusion that is it all complete bullsh it!
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"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" Psalm 14. There's you answer. They're FOOLS when it comes to God.
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okay ...now where is your list of believers huh???\n\nchristopher columbus, abraham lincoln, galileo, issac newton, and on and on.\n\n\nbiased flawed reasoning...yet once again. no i have found just the opposite. when i put too much faith in my finite mortal flawed self...my achievments are limited.\n\nfaith in God is the greatest weapon ever.\n\nbut i am guessing yo don't even understand what i mean.
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Rationality + logic + education - superstition = atheism
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For every misguided religious zealot, there is an equally misguided smug atheist.\n\n"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
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One; \n\nRespectable atheists are generally followers of logic.  Logicaly speaking, the athiest knows that all he has to do is get a new bulb and replace the blown bulb.  He doesn't ask God to give him light; he knows that if there is to be light in his house, he will have to put it there and he does so.\n\nBy the way, the assumption made above about atheists being large is simply a disgusting generalization made by a feeble mind with no other answer to atheism than an ad hominem argument.
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Atheism means you have no religion, so it came first.  But it was only after man invented religion that we knew what to call it.
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Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430) was one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. In Roman Catholicism, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinian religious order. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fountainheads of Reformation teaching on salvation and grace. Born in Africa as the eldest son of Saint Monica, he was educated and baptized in Italy. His works—including The Confessions, which is often called the first Western autobiography—are still read around the world.
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It's a funny little argument you're making here, but at a basic level it makes sense. I have never met MLK Jr., or Christopher Columbus, and so I accept the word of, well, my society that these people existed. In fact, this faith is often betrayed! How many people took the story of George Washington and the cherry tree as gospel truth (no pun intended)?\n\nPlenty of people, atheists included, have accepted both true and false histories on nothing but blind faith for many many years. Hard to find an atheist who will admit to this though, as it violates the notion of a thinking individual.\n\nWe all accept things on faith all the time. The important thing to remember here is that that faith can be either betrayed or justified. Accepting something on faith doesn't make you stupid. It confirms that you are human.
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Reading the Bible is the single best way of making someone an atheist. Add in a little outside history and the case is done.
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Hardly. On the Internet, I've really only seen a handful of Internet trolls who are actually as clever as they suppose themselves to be. \n\nFactoring out the Internet for a moment, I think atheists (not all, but some) tend to think Christians are less intelligent than a lot of them are. And I suspect many atheists also look at their reasons for disbelief, which they consider to be rooted in reason, and suppose that because their belief can be sourced to a rational outlook, that those of their would-be opponents cannot be. \n\nAs a result, atheists tend to play a pretty weak hand with Christians in debate - they really do tend to underestimate them. They ply them with pesudo-logical paradoxes (that in fact have serious logical flaws to them) such as "can God make a rock too big for him to lift it?" And they'll toss out such red herrings as the "Flying Spaghetti Monster", one of the most poorly devised apologetic devices ever constructed in the history of theological debate.\n\nI think the more convincing arguments made by atheists tend to be the ones that take religion seriously - Paul Chamberlain's "Can We be Good without God?" I thought was a superlative and well argued work, though I didn't agree with some of its conclusions about the nature of religious belief. \n\nBut I can imagine a person being convinced by an argument made like that, because you are being taken seriously. Mockery has been taken out of it. I doubt too many people ever change because they are made fun of - there's no quicker way to shutter someone's ears.
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The man is a fool methinks
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Since atheism is a non belief in God it had to come first.\n\nI note yet another Christian thinks atheism was invented to be anti Christian.  What bigoted rubbish.   The word means not believing in A god.  Not just your God but any God!!!!!
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Good Atheist. Religion is vague. Being a genuine good person is for real.