Just a little inquiry.

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:book: Being new here, I would just like to ask, and please stop me if I'm over stepping my bounds, just what religion is everyone here. Personally I'm Agnostic.
 
I belong to the Church of Baseball, and I . . .

Sorry about that. I was channelling Annie Savoy again.

Religion=none
 
Scizerus said:
:book: Being new here, I would just like to ask, and please stop me if I'm over stepping my bounds, just what religion is everyone here. Personally I'm Agnostic.
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By all means, you are in no way overstepping your bounds, its a perfectly fine question. Philosopher Yahweh says inquery is the first step in the process of learning.

Religion = none = Atheist.
 
Ex-Mormon, Ex-Anglican, religion-savvy carefully considered atheist

although usually i just say, ex-mo

Peter
 
Atheist

Atheist and wondering why everyone else in the world isn't.

Bentspoon

Edited to add: = no religion
 
Scizerus said:
:book: Being new here, I would just like to ask, and please stop me if I'm over stepping my bounds, just what religion is everyone here. Personally I'm Agnostic.
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I'm Catholic.

-Elliot
 
I haven't had a religion in a very long time. I used to be a Mormon. I am now an atheist.

As an aside, I notice a lot of ex-mormons here. It seems to me hat the vast majority of atheists that I know are either ex-Mormons or ex-Catholics. I wonder what it is about those two religions that creates such a disproportionately high number of atheists, or if it's just coincidence.
 
I have noticed that ex-mormons tend to be atheist. I assume it's a coincidence, or just the fact that I notice ex-mo's more.
However, it's possible that the Mormon indoctrination process tends to try and 'prove' every other religion is wrong. If you are able to break away from the Morg, you have no religion left to turn to.
Peter
 
Peter Jenkins said:
I have noticed that ex-mormons tend to be atheist. I assume it's a coincidence, or just the fact that I notice ex-mo's more.
However, it's possible that the Mormon indoctrination process tends to try and 'prove' every other religion is wrong. If you are able to break away from the Morg, you have no religion left to turn to.
Peter
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When I first began to notice it I chalked it up to the fact that I live in Nevada and we have the second highest Mormon population outside of Utah, so of course any atheists I run into here are going have a good chance of being ex-Mormons. But then I noticed it on alt.atheism and on this board. It could just be like you said, that being an ex-mormon myself I am going to tend to notice other ex-mormons. Still I think there are a lot of us compared to other ex-whatevers, there are three of us in this thread alone. Ex-Catholics is the only group that it seems to me are larger in population thatn ex-Mormons in the atheist community. I have no data to back that up (and if anyone has any data at all on the subject, I for one would find it highly interesting) it is just my own observation.

I sometimes wonder if it isn't that former Mormons and Catholics are over-represented among atheists so much as, due to the nature of the religions, people tend to have more of their identity wrapped up in those religions than most others and thus they are more likely to identify themselves as a former member of that religion. I know lots of people, even among non-atheists, that will identify themselves as a "Jack" Mormon or an ex-Catholic. I know very few who will call themselves something like a "Jack" Presbyterian or an ex-Methodist. This is my theory anyway.
 
None=Atheist,
And I’m a recovering Mormon, that hopes to be a Ex-Mormon in the future (Target date 08/18/09).
 
Marilyn_Manson said:
None=Atheist,
And I’m a recovering Mormon, that hopes to be a Ex-Mormon in the future (Target date 08/18/09).
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That makes four.

Why do you have a target date? Are you under 18 and waiting for your 18th birthday? Or am I missing something?

BTW, if no one else has welcomed you to the forum yet, welcome.
 
Nyarlathotep said:


That makes four.

Why do you have a target date? Are you under 18 and waiting for your 18th birthday? Or am I missing something?

BTW, if no one else has welcomed you to the forum yet, welcome.
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Well thanks for the welcome Nyarlathotep and about my target date well it wasn't a birthday or anything. I just was thinking about Homer Simpson talking about building a new doghouse and he said target date 2004 and it was 1998 at the time.
BTW this is why I started to think about what it was to be a Mormon. And it's been hard living around my old lifestyle and starting a new one the last few years.http://www.thei.aust.com/isite/manson2.html another link http://www.beliefnet.com/story/78/story_7870_1.html
 
Greetings Scizerus, your name is unpronounceable to me. Welcome to the forum.

No religion, atheist. Thanks for asking.
 
I tried to believe in God once. It just pissed me off. Whenever I went to church or a bible study I got sick about all the crap that is preached up. Jesus and the children...sheeep baaaaaaah-in heaven the lions don't eat other animals.....(wouldn't that be hell for a lion?) Then the anti-science angle turned me off of it once and for all...oh and when they told us not to be friends to non-christians (you can be nice to them, just don't be friends with them). Then I read the bible and nearly threw up (see thread on contradictions).

So I don't even believe in spirits or afterlives at all. Without our brains we can't sense anything. When you die-you no longer have a brain or eyes or whatever to see/hear/smell with. So if ghosts can see, then that's a load of crap.

When you're dead it's just like it was before you were born.

People who "remember past lives" are delusional or cons.
 
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