Imagine if you were raised to believe in Allah, God, Mohammed, jesus or these other foolish characters in the many religions of the world. That would suck! You would have to waste time and money on fictional beliefs.
2006-09-05 05:27:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am an unbeliever who lives in France since I was born.
Oh yes, I am thankfull to my family who didn't brainwash me with religious/spiritual beliefs.
I am thankful I am an unbeliever because I feel now that I am fully protected from any kind of cults.
Ever.
2006-09-05 05:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by Axel ∇ 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I'm an atheist, but I find this "question" silly and juvenile.
If the idea is to show that you're intelligent, you should have used spellcheck, and you should have avoided the loaded and inappropriate term "brainwashed".
I am thankful that I have been free-thinking enough to have taken advantage of the wonderful opportunity that I was given as a middle-class member of a free society to learn enough about nature to overcome earlier superstitious beliefs. I recognize that others still hold those superstitions, not because they're "brainwashed", stupid, or crazy, but because those beliefs are the cultural norm.
I would be more thankful if more people would overcome those superstitions, but I don't believe that calling them "brainwashed" does any good towards that end, any more than being called "a fool" by the believers makes me interested in reconsidering my nonbelief.
2006-09-05 05:34:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i am an Atheist. i was raised in a Christian household. i was at a very early age, a very curious child. and for the most part while i found the stories in the bible entertaining, i also found them unbelievable.
i don't think being raised into religion is the ONLY reason some people come to believe in their deity. some believe later in life. while others that were raised in a religion...find rational thinking later in life.
i wouldn't call it foolish, as much as just wishful thinking. after all...I'd never call my mother a fool! that would be RUDE, she has a good heart..even if i don't believe in her god.
2006-09-05 06:54:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So I have a gun to my head and someone says, "verify God exists or I kill you"? Why ought to I *no longer* lie? i'm no longer suicidal, nor do I value indulging the whims of a homicidal psychotic over my own survival. you've a gun for your head and someone says, "verify that China is a Latin American u . s . or I kill you"; hi, even with the reality that you assert, tacos, moo shu, that is all an same to me and that i'd be on my merry way. i don't have a "moral code" requiring me to verify my atheism in the face of certain lack of existence, any more effective than I have a "moral code" that announces i ought to inform the Gestapo I have Jews in the attic even as they knock on the door. i'm thoroughly unfamiliar with any "atheist moral code", as all atheism involves is lack of conception in deities, no longer some thing more effective. probable there are various of issues that both you and that i lack conception in; I doubt you'd be any more effective prepared to 'die for them' than i should be.
2016-12-06 11:05:30 · answer #4 · answered by slomka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen Mr. T. Atheist are all the more brain washed because they have to keep convincing themselves there isn't a God. Haven't you ever wondered if there is more to what the world or this life has to offer? Or have you truly convinced yourself and come to believe that you have no purpose for being here, and when you die all your gonna do is push up daisies?
2006-09-05 05:36:40 · answer #5 · answered by mr_kastner 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I was once a person of faith, and there was much about that life that I still like. Fortunately, leaving blind faith behind didn't mean that I couldn't continue to be a good and helpful person. To the contrary, it opened my eyes to all sorts of new possibilities for living a moral, productive, honest life. The percentage of time and money I give to helping others has increased since I embraced Humanism.
2006-09-05 05:31:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
As a child I was raised catholic abut when my father married the cousin it he is with now she wanted up to be Jehovah witnesses but my real mother put a stop to that and I thank her for telling me the truth about "god" he is made up just like Santa and the Easter bunny people who believe there is a "god" are feeble minded
2006-09-05 05:39:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It beats the time and money wasted on your education.
I feel sorry for you. What is your purpose in life? What is the purpose for your life?
Since you obviously know all the answers what makes you live of die?
2006-09-05 05:34:15 · answer #8 · answered by namsaev 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately, I'm guilty of giving a few dollars in my lifetime... but I am thankful I'm not brainwashed.
2006-09-05 05:30:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
hey Dummy! You are a pathetic excuse of a NON-BELIEVER!! On judgement day only the believers would be saved! Belivers are people of all religion who believe there is a God!
Rant on sinner boy...HELL awaits you!
2006-09-05 05:47:09 · answer #10 · answered by CATHOLIC PRIEST!! 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋