Non-Christians on CS Old Thread Please Lock

[prncsmary]

I'm very interested to see all the Atheists on your list as well. It's fascinating. I wonder how many of them were bought up around or in a religious house-hold, yet came to the belief later on in life that God(s) doesn't exists. I often find when talking to Atheists, that their parents were normally very religious people and in childhood they were pushed and feed a lot of religion. When they become older and start thinking for themselves, they really seem to go to the "extreme" opposite. xD now, I'm not trying to sound offensive to anyone's belief with this next comment, and I truly don't mean it to sound like it is; but I almost wonder if puberty plays a part in this. With all the hormones racing and the stress put on a teenager in this phase of life; they really see the world a lot differently from either a child or an adult, but I ramble. xD Ignore me~

my parents both don't really care, and so do I. I mean, as long as no one wants to talk me into his/her blieve (like saying, you have to blieve in this and this, otherwise your a bad person), I'm quite open to religious discussions. But what I don't get is how people can put their religion over their personal life... a friend of mine wouldn't be allowed to go into her church, talk to her friends (of this believe) of even her family of she would go out a boy/man who is not coptic or, worst case possible (for them), muslim. and thats totally ok for her! she says, if she would fall in love with someone whos not coptic, she wouldn't tell anyone and rather be heartbroken. That's one thing I'll never get.

[Erille]

Username: Erille
Religion: Undecided

[Kingdom]

Username: Erille
Religion: Undecided

I'll just leave your religion blank then

Just post or PM me if you want me to put something there

[BlackRoseDying]

BlackRoseDying- wiccan (solitary saxon)

theres my religion and my denomitation.

i have a forum about Wicca if you want to post that would be great ive already had over 200 veiws

[Kingdom]

Religion count:

Agnostic - 15
Atheist - 54
Jewish - 6
Hindu - 1
Wiccan - 10
Muslim - 4
Pagan - 10
Satanist - 1
Polytheistic - 4
Vaishnava - 1

Atheism has slightly larger numbers then the rest of us :]

[Vampiric]

personally, people have religions and they have a right to them. i am a christian myself, and so probably shouldn't be posting on here. but i would just like to say that this is a horrible thing all these "christian" and "non-christian" stuff is the very best way to destroy egos and start wars and make people angry. i'll admit i'm a bit worked up myself. but i say, religion is a good thing- to keep to yourself.
it just makes me sick every time people scorn christians or non-christians.

[aihal]

this is sick and awful
personally, people have religions and they have a right to them. i am a christian myself, and so probably shouldn't be posting on here. but i would just like to say that this is a horrible thing all these "christian" and "non-christian" stuff is the very best way to destroy egos and start wars and make people angry. i'll admit i'm a bit worked up myself. but i say, religion is a good thing- to keep to yourself.
it just makes me sick every time people scorn christians or non-christians. sick.

Gee, honeypot, why doncha tell us how you really feel?
Just messing with you, dove. But I do agree with what I think you're saying, to some extent. It is unproductive and damaging to draw these lines, Christian and Non-Christian, 'us and them.' It creates an environment that allows us to slip extremely easily into anger, hatred and mob-mentality, things that are not good in ANY religion. That being said, it is not inappropriate, nor should it make you sick, to see a thread on an internet forum for non-Christians, especially in an environment like that of CS, where Christians make up the majority. There is nothing wrong with gathering together to share our impressions and beliefs amongst those with similar, minority perspectives. It gets messy when there is a collective 'bashing' of Christianity, but I think most of us can stay away from that. For the most part. Ideally.


What I'm trying to say is that we're not here to start wars and make people angry. We're just all similar in that we're non-Christians in a Christian-dominated society, and it's a nice place to chat about things and beliefs that interest us as non-Christians. I personally have nothing against Christians, Christianity, or Mr. Jesus himself, and I think most of the regulars on this thread feel the same.

We're not posting here because we hate Christianity. We're posting here because we're not Christians.

[Scarf]

this is sick and awful
personally, people have religions and they have a right to them. i am a christian myself, and so probably shouldn't be posting on here. but i would just like to say that this is a horrible thing all these "christian" and "non-christian" stuff is the very best way to destroy egos and start wars and make people angry. i'll admit i'm a bit worked up myself. but i say, religion is a good thing- to keep to yourself.
it just makes me sick every time people scorn christians or non-christians. sick.

I'll admit that segregation is not helpful, but for the most part this is merely a statistics thread. The Christians have their own (which predates this one), with over three hundred people from the last time I payed attention to it. In this case separating out Christians from non-Christians allows a more visible spread of data...we know that there are three times as many Christians as non-Christians, but we want to see the non-Christian breakdown.

To my knowledge there is no scorning of either side in this thread, nor is there any ban on Christians coming in to talk (though it is a statistics thread, so there isn't much discussion to be involved in). Catholics have been told that they don't count on the non-Christian list because they are inherently a denomination of Christianity. That's not scorning, that's keeping the statistics accurate.

I'll agree that religion is a good thing to keep to yourself when we're talking missionary things, but religion is also a brilliant topic for discussion. Religion (or the lack thereof) plays a huge part in the way we look at and react to other people and to the world. But dicussing our differences and similarities and engaging in debate we can better understand one another, and this undertanding is what will prevent religious wars and conflicts and disagreements.

fake!edit: ninja'd by a less binturong-speeded person but I don't care

[Iwantmycookie]

iwantmycookie, jewish!!!!

[mybubbles]

well, thanks for being understanding, anyway