Should I become an atheist and why?

[Wootah]

Should I become an atheist and why?

What are the benefits, practices, beliefs? Any good conversion stories?

[Tcg]

Now we're told that all of these atheist books, societies, and get-togethers are really just devoted to a mental condition, which is not only boring, but kinda sad.

Wow! I'm used to seeing some theists misrepresent atheism, but this is off the charts. Atheism is the lack of belief in god/gods. That is not a mental condition.

It is perfectly reasonable to withhold belief based on the lack of verifiable evidence which is sufficient to prove the existence of god/gods. Refusing to reach unreasonable conclusions which are based on unsupportable claims is actually quite healthy. If doing so is boring, then I'm quite glad to be boring.


Tcg

[Difflugia]

Atheism is just boring.

It's like doing the laundry or doing basic shopping or going to work. It is rather boring, but it is something that has to be done.

Refusing to reach unreasonable conclusions which are based on unsupportable claims is actually quite healthy. If doing so is boring, then I'm quite glad to be boring.

Many people find Chemistry and Ohm's Law to be boring, as well. Phlogiston and Zeus are way more intellectually stimulating, apparently.

[TRANSPONDER]

Atheism is just boring.

It's like doing the laundry or doing basic shopping or going to work. It is rather boring, but it is something that has to be done.

Refusing to reach unreasonable conclusions which are based on unsupportable claims is actually quite healthy. If doing so is boring, then I'm quite glad to be boring.

Many people find Chemistry and Ohm's Law to be boring, as well. Phlogiston and Zeus are way more intellectually stimulating, apparently.

Quite apart from the atheist -bash "It is Boring...so we should stop doing it." And the misdirection (Atheism is a logical position. It is not a lifestyle - atheists can pick what interests them as a Lifestyle) it is rather like this footling Theist idea that without God -belief, nature (as science) becomes dull. No. As an analogy they may say 'I prefer to stay in Church and look at the scenery through the stained glass. It will lose all that color if I go outside." I will bet that is the mindset they have and the bottom line is that they can never understand what the atheist life is like if they have never been a 'thinking' atheist. n.b The ones who claim to have been atheists (we all were until taught Theism) don't seem to know the arguments (even though they claim to) and they do not appear to understand what atheism is like.

[historia]

Atheism is the lack of belief in god/gods.

I've been told it's also about hookers and blow. Seems like you ought to address that misstatement, no?

That is not a mental condition.

I've been reliably informed it is. Perhaps you've confused this with a mental disorder?

If doing so is boring, then I'm quite glad to be boring.

Well, seems like we both agree it's boring.

[Tcg]

Atheism has cocaine and hookers, among other hedonist delights.

See, now, hedonism, even if ill-advised, is interesting. Atheism is just boring.

But ya can't have hedonism without atheism.

How many rails of coke have ever been snorted off of sister better'n you's frontal area there, her laying back in the pew with them bare cankles exposed in front of God and everybody?

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[historia]

I'm just saying, we don't have us a lot of theists here carrying on about the virtues of hookers and blow.

I guess not a lot of people here are big on exploiting vulnerable women for male sexual pleasure.

You're projecting. I'm cute, I ain't gotta roofie a chick to get her nekkid.

You seem confused. You were just telling us about the virtues of prostitution -- which, in case you hadn't noticed, exploits vulnerable women -- and how this is part of atheism. Go on.

[historia]

Many people find Chemistry and Ohm's Law to be boring, as well.

Chemistry is interesting.

Phlogiston and Zeus are way more intellectually stimulating, apparently.

Greek mythology is also interesting.

Atheism, though: boring.

[historia]

It is rather boring

We keep agreeing.

Bottom line - this is just another cheap and dishonest effort at an atheist -bash and, as such, it fails.

Calm down, TRANSPONDER, I'm just teasing.

You guys are constantly taking cheap shots at Christianity on this forum with nary a reply from the opposition. But I jokingly say atheism is boring, and can barely hear myself over all the resulting pearl clutching. At least Joey and Difflugia had the good sense to respond with their own jesting, albeit one rather demeaning of women.

being boring is NOT why (as the video suggested) we should stop doing it

Oh, do you want to discuss the video? That's actually interesting.

[PolytheistWitch]

There isn't any really becoming an atheist. You either believe deities exist or you don't, if you don't you're an atheist.

[Diogenes]

It is rather boring

We keep agreeing.

Bottom line - this is just another cheap and dishonest effort at an atheist -bash and, as such, it fails.

Calm down, TRANSPONDER, I'm just teasing.

You guys are constantly taking cheap shots at Christianity on this forum with nary a reply from the opposition. But I jokingly say atheism is boring, and can barely hear myself over all the resulting pearl clutching. At least Joey and Difflugia had the good sense to respond with their own jesting, albeit one rather demeaning of women.

Gotta say I'm 100% with Historia on this... except when s/he backs off and says s/he's joking. If I was going to joke I'd call he/r "Hysteria." [C'mon H., pick a pronoun for me. I guess I'll use 'he' unless corrected... or 'H.']

Enema, atheism IS boring. There's nothing to it. Unless... An absence of belief in God/gods is just that, nothing, except I suppose it takes some discipline to avoid lapsing into belief. Nature and the mind abhor vacuums. I've mentioned before that I like to go camping alone, deep in the woods near a stream. Especially at sunset hearing the hiss and gurgle of rushing water the imagination begs listening. A rock in the creek bed, balanced, loses stasis and falls sounding a deep thud. A water nymph? A spirit? The step of an invisible troll? When night falls it might signal a bear, or worse a human intruder.

Evenings alone with nature I imagine myself in tune with primitive man, random sounds plead for explanation. We are pattern seekers. We fill voids... a random thought rushes to replace emptiness. Spirits and gods are invented. God must be at work.

Yes atheism is boring, there's nothing there.