Anyone ever become an atheist after believing?

RDM · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:08

ringo747 said:
Maybe I'm blind but where were these quotes from?! A different thread?

Click on the little blue arrow and it takes you to the thread in question.

ringo747 · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:16

Goodness, I've been here 6 years and didn't even notice that!

Yamahahahahaha · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:19

ringo747 said:
Goodness, I've been here 6 years and didn't even notice that!

Praise the lord for giving you the eyes to see!... I didn't know either.

Nitefly · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:20

Zzzzzzzz.

Sinny · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:22

Grew up a Christian, became Agnostic at around 19. Don't think I'll be an Atheist, don't like the thought of definitively telling myself something without proof either way. But, who knows.

Gilly · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:23

Fair warning was provided.

ringo747 · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:28

Gilly said:
Fair warning was provided.

Oh dear, the guy must be suspended more than he is active! What was it this time?

Theophany · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:33

ringo747 said:
Oh dear, the guy must be suspended more than he is active! What was it this time?

Willful ignorance to the point of being a parody of himself would be my guess.

dirtychinchilla · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:50

It was God's will.

ethan · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:52

Jason2 said:
It's not the theists who reject the big bang, but rather the atheists. They wish to maintain the universe is eternal so there's no possibility of a creator. However, with strong evidence of the universe coming into existence, that argument is slowly fading.

An eternal universe isn't necessarily a contradiction to a creator so in what way is the argument slowly fading?

Castiel · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:54

ringo747 said:
Oh dear, the guy must be suspended more than he is active! What was it this time?

He unfortunately has a tendency to resort to insults when he either doesn't understand something or faced with a different perspective, even when it is relative to his own beliefs rather than in opposition to them.

ringo747 · 4 Mar 2013 at 20:55

ethan said:
An eternal universe isn't necessarily a contradiction to a creator so in what way is the argument slowly fading?

I presume he means that if the universe was eternal in the past, there wouldn't be a question to answer concerning the coming into existence of the universe.

ethan · 4 Mar 2013 at 21:00

ringo747 said:
I presume he means that if the universe was eternal in the past, there wouldn't be a question to answer concerning the coming into existence of the universe.

Hmmmn. Yes and no. The latest thinking offers up the idea that this universe is simply a soap bubble that has pushed its way through belonging to an even greater one. So it accomodates both

ringo747 · 4 Mar 2013 at 21:05

ethan said:
Hmmmn. Yes and no. The latest thinking offers up the idea that this universe is simply a soap bubble that has pushed its way through belonging to an even greater one. So it accomodates both

I'm not sure what to make of that one! Not sure how it would stack up to the well established big bang cosmology theory.

dirtychinchilla · 4 Mar 2013 at 21:55

ringo747 said:
I'm not sure what to make of that one! Not sure how it would stack up to the well established big bang cosmology theory.

I think I'm right in saying that it belongs to the multiverse theory which does work with the big bang theory.

ringo747 · 4 Mar 2013 at 22:10

Yes it could be. I'm not entirely sure how many hold these multiverse notions. It certainly seems that someone who wants to follow the evidence would hold the big bang view given that nobody really knows if multiple universes do actually exist, or whether we could even test for them given they would be outside of our own observable universe.

dirtychinchilla · 4 Mar 2013 at 22:38

I think quite a lot of people who are versed in this kind of physics support the multiverse theory, and I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I personally doubt that we could ever test the multiverse theory, but who knows.

Nerusy · 4 Mar 2013 at 22:56

Sinny said:
Grew up a Christian, became Agnostic at around 19. Don't think I'll be an Atheist, don't like the thought of definitively telling myself something without proof either way. But, who knows.

If "God" does not exist it can never be disproven, you can not disprove something that does not exist. So yeah you're stuck as agnostic bro.

CREATIVE!11 · 4 Mar 2013 at 22:58

Thread still going I see.

Robosapien · 4 Mar 2013 at 23:31

Dimple said:
He was great and an ex boxer but it was during his time that I started to lose religion. I got dismayed by people making their own religious rules up (including myself) and the straw that broke the camels back was when he invited another church up from down South. There was about 30 of them and they camped out in the Church Hall and me and a mate decided to crash by going through a basement door we had keys for. Before going in we watched from a slit and it was an all out orgy I kid you not. The following day I questioned their leader and he just said that we were all children of God and it was OK because it was all love etc.
That was the moment (as well as other experiences) that made me realise it was a load of bull and I missed out on poontang.

You have restored my faith.