/atheism/ - Atheism

Not me, all my friends are atheists of various stripes. But I am quite intolerant of people with faith of any kind. Not that I'll lash out at them or anything but I'll constantly chisel away their beliefs that lack evidence.

Also there's nothing wrong with assholes, if it wasn't for assholes everyone would be full of shit.

All my friends are atheists or at least irreligious. Some weren't even baptized as children. I don't know a single outspokenly religious person within the extended circle of my university acquaintances, the kind that regularly goes church every sunday.

Well there was this weird girl from highschool.

>>12671

I have only non-believers as friends. I know some christians that are ok people but I don't bring up christianity to avoid needles drama.

The last friend I had was an atheist who was well read and well spoken. We had many a great conversation on religion and enjoyed picking apart arguments.

He moved away unfortunately.

My friends are Atheists, or irreligious now. I don't think many christians would be prepared to get close to me because my views are so different, unless they knew me before I had turned. Moving forward, I still expect to be more intellectually attracted to Atheists, and maybe Buddhists.

Most of my friends are at least a little bit religious, I don't really know many hardcore bible-thumpers though. One of my best friends is an atheist, and I've had some other atheist friends in the past, although I don't talk to them that much anymore. Also, pretty much everyone on my dad's side of the family is an atheist.

>>12697

statuecuck pls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy

>>12707

The redder the country, the more likely they are to throw a hissy fit because someone said "merry christmas".

Only ever known one atheist IRL and a couple of agnostics.

The problem with the irreligious is you never know what will happen if they get married or have kids. It's hard to like someone if they would impose on a kid things they don't believe or have serious doubts about.

But around here just avoiding the religious is hard enough.

>>12748

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The problem with the irreligious is you never know what will happen if they get married or have kids. It's hard to like someone if they would impose on a kid things they don't believe or have serious doubts about.

What are you talking about?

>>12671

I think atheists are more likely to be more intelligent, more ethical, more politically like-minded (to me), and overall more interesting people than theists. It's not just a mere perception. Scientific evidence favors atheists in relation to intelligence, peace, tolerance, etc.

On the other hand we atheists are not as numerous as theists, and many of us don't even make it known to others that we are atheists for a number of reasons. (Indeed most of us agree that implying that not believing shit that is not known to be true or known to be false is the default should be the standard expectation, rendering labels like "atheists" or "a-Sasquatches" unnecessary). So by rough numbers it is harder to socialize with atheists because the pool is smaller. Perhaps atheists are something like 2.5 times as cool guys as theists on average, but we also are 4 to 10 times less numerous, and the net probability of befriending another atheists is smaller.

>>12672

>I am quite intolerant of people with faith of any kind. Not that I'll lash out at them or anything but I'll constantly chisel away their beliefs that lack evidence.

why call it intolerance at all? It's not like you want to force them to make their minds and have the state not punish you for doing it.

that language vindicates the case of actually intolerant religious tards who genuinely think their religion has a sacred right to not be criticized and mocked. Your sole opinion is an offense to them

>if it wasn't for assholes everyone would be full of shit.

exactly. and thanks for having the nuts to call BS on superstition. Where I live that would immediately ostracize me and could potentially send me to jail. Maintaining and expanding freedom depends on apparently simple actions like yours which balance the helm against the neo-oscurantists

>>12707

I was expecting a lighter tone on Canada and possibly on Chile. Also, stupid North Korea is making South Korea diametrically opposed and therefore more akin to traditional religions (i.e. no communist cults of personality).

If I were the emerging EU I would have imposed maximum religiosity rates to keep Portugal, Italy, Poland and Greece out of the equation; on the grounds that religiosity is empirically undesirable and retrograde

I just never make a thing of it. People generally don't bring up religion unless they're retards who have nothing interesting in their lives, and why would you want to be friends with someone like that anyway?

People usually find out I'm an atheist long after we've known each other, because that's the first time it's relevant to bring it up. I've still gotten the "You know how someone's an atheist? They'll tell you." line even when I'd known the guy for over a year before I'd mentioned it. People like to make a thing where there isn't one so I try not to give them the opportunity.

>>12904

Same. My friends and I almost never talk about religion or anything. My best friend and I talked about it very briefly and he told me that he believes that everyone sort of has a path, i.e. that there's some degree of predestination in the world. But other than that, it never comes up. The same goes for politics. I mean I know my friend's a Republican, but we've never really discussed politics.

I'm the only right-wing atheist I know irl, so I can't really befriend anyone too closely.