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Originally Posted by Charlatan
That aside, I find your use of the phrase, "practicing atheism" rather odd. How does one do this? There is no proscribed method or practice. For me, the whole point is that there is no method or "way".
Atheism, to me, is the natural state. All religion is a perversion of nature.
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"Practising atheism" is just a figure of speech I'm using, Of course, I don't mean any ritual....It seems to me that many atheists might benefit by coming together and devising/enjoying and employing local ways to make "not believing" seem more positive....not just have atheism mean "people who don't believe in god".
Our glass is half
full! Not empty....in my mind, religion is the actual emptyness....because it's make-believe! It's not right that atheists get such a bad rap. (I live in a small midwest rural community, perhaps the big city folk don't get the bad vibes I do
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So I'd like to see atheism/science veiwed as a very
positive state of mind!
....atheists are people with open free minds, that want to use all the modern tools (science, advanced communications) we have available to us NOW to benefit mankind as a whole. We don't need to rely on the old antiquated customs that seem to repeatedly divide humans and cause hate/wars (religions).
Good things start small and grow (local) , and good reps come from actual one-on-one experience, not from reading and debating. If a local group of atheists can easily get together and repeatedly work towards the betterment of the needy, and their local community, WHILE promoting their natural disbelief in god and religion, others in the community can come to associate atheism with normal people who do positive deeds etc, etc.
It's such a broad concept I have...it's hard to lay it out....
(We need to go in the back door and change the world with deeds, not words....and always SCIENCE! SCIENCE! SCIENCE! religious nuts that are trying to teach religion instead of science are bad people
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