Have you ever heard an atheist say "Oh, my God"?
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Sure.  I do it occassionally.\n\nI have also heard religious people say "Holy S**T!" - but I assume that they don't mean it literally.\n\nA
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God made himself evident in creation, only a fool says "there is no God"..truth be told the atheist do believe there is a God or at one time had, they turned their back on him for one reason or another. BTW Satan believes there is a God too and he shudders. Now you know
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Does God Exist Or Not? \n\nA man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard\ntrimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good\nconversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. \n\nWhen they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber\nsaid: "I don't believe that God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked\nthe customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize\nthat God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many\nsick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there\nwould be neither suffering or pain. I can't imagine a loving God who\nwould allow all of these things. \n\nThe customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he\ndidn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the\ncustomer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man\nin the street with long stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He\nlooked dirty and unkempt. \n\nThe customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he\nsaid to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can you\nsay that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber.\nAnd I just worked on you!" "No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers do not\nexist because if they did there would not be people with long dirty hair\nand untrimmed beards, like that man outside." \n\n"Ah, but barbers do exist! What happens is that people do not\ncome to me." \n\n"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too\nDOES exist! What happens is that people don't come to HIM and do not\nlook for HIM. That is why there's so much pain and suffering in the\nworld." \n\nBE BLESSED AND BE A BLESSING. \n__________________________________________________
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I am very happy being an atheist.  I just follow the golden rule of doing unto others as I'd have done to me, and everything works out great.\n\nThanks for asking.
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T'was during the service of the Evil Stepmother (for real) when the priest asked everyone to pray so that her soul may ascend to heaven. At that moment lightning struck twice. I almost burst out laughing out loud! Now I believe there is a God!\n\n2nd time, it was a fieldmouse desperate to get out of the hole, jumping up n down on the casket.
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no did you hear mine?
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someone called God ,i think.
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"God" didn't step out of the clouds, sit down with some vellum and quill and write that, sorry. Some regular ol' man who claimed "God" spoke to him did.\n\nWhen this happens nowadays, the person in question is usually placed under psychiatric care.
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that actually true. he heard the muslim call for prayers which is:\n\n(ALlaho Akbar twice) = Praise to God..Praise to God\n(Ashahdo anho la ilaha illa allah twice) = I witness and believe there is no other God but God\n.\n.\n. and to the end of (there is no God but God)\n\nand for the answer up there. why did Neil Armstrong let his secretary speak for himself and not him personally?  why didn't he reveal himself infront of public and announce it himself that it was hoax? Because It Happend!
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I blasphemed god, and he turned me into a newt.\n\n\n\n...I got better.
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My guess is that the saying evolved from the expression "Holy Lord!" or "Holy God!".  Over time, language has become more coarse and somebody felt like tossing in the ol' S-word instead of "God" and it stuck.
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I have been on both sides of this issue. I was raised to believe, but rationally I could not except the idea that God was the judgmental insecure fruitcake my religion portrayed him as.\n\nSo I stopped believing.  Then this happened to me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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Yes, but this is not as important as God believes in me. For I can imagine any kind of a God or none at all but as long as he thinks of me I continue to exsist. This can not be said of all people. I am an orgininal thought of God, very unique and there is none like me on the earth though there be billions with my form. He has spoken to me a few times and he is more real than I am, for I am just a thought of his
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Read this article and decide your self ...\nAn atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....\n\nProf: So you believe in God?\nStudent: Absolutely, sir.\n\nProf: Is God good?\nStudent: Sure.\n\nProf: Is God all-powerful?\nStudent: Yes.\n\nProf: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?\nStudent is silent.\n\nProf: You can't answer, can you?\nLet's start again, young fellow. Is God good?\nStudent: Yes.\n\nProf: Is Satan good?\nStudent: No.\n\nProf: Where does Satan come from?\nStudent : From...God...\n\nProf: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?\nStudent: Yes.\n\nProf: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?\nStudent: Yes.\n\nProf: So who created evil?\nStudent does not answer.\n\nProf: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?\nStudent: Yes, sir.\n\nProf: So, who created them?\nStudent has no answer.\n\nProf: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?\nStudent: No, sir.\n\nProf: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?\nStudent: No, sir.\n\nProf: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?\nStudent: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.\n\nProf: Yet you still believe in Him?\nStudent: Yes.\n\nProf: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?\nStudent: Nothing. I only have my faith.\n\nProf: Yes Faith. And that is the problem science has.\n\nNow the student said can I ask something to you Professor.\n\nStudent: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?\nProf: Yes.\n\nStudent: And is there such a thing as cold?\nProf: Yes.\n\nStudent: No sir. There isn't.\n(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)\n\nStudent: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it. (There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)\n\nStudent: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?\nProf: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?\n\nStudent: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.\nYou can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?\nProf: So what is the point you are making, young man?\n\nStudent: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.\nProf: Flawed? Can you explain how?\n\nStudent: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?\nProf: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes,
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"I know, aren't I godly?"
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God never said that. There's no such thing as God. Someone wrote that while most likely high on weed and thought it would be a good laugh.. 'ha ha, that'll scare the crap out of them, fools' ... Unfortunately, he didn't realise at the time people would take the fairy story book so literally so the jokes actually on him.
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I was born as a catholic christian.  It comes a time that I personally asked God and it is also the time that I am losing belief in God and siding to belief that God was only a figurative thing.  Until, I was fed up one day with my problems and I raised my head and uttered to God that He is not real, to my surprise He answered and shown me a vision up to this time I can vividly recall.  His voice is the one described by the prophets, gentle, forgiving and powerful.