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Cartoonist

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6. Some of my best friends are theists
Sat Mar 28, 2015, 12:53 AM
Mar 2015

Well, one or two anyway.
I would never describe myself as agnostic, nor would I say I know for certain. I clearly describe myself as an atheist. There is no evidence of a God, so what other conclusion is there?
I love the Beatles and feel sorry for those who don't. I don't hate them, I just feel they are missing out.
It takes all kinds of people to make the world interesting, therefore I do not hate theists, or even dislike them.
It is organized religion I despise. Once somebody writes a set of parameters about the way things are, without a shred of evidence, they have crossed the line with me.
So the word anti-theist doesn't fit, and the term anti-organized religion doesn't work for me. I am still waiting for the right description of who I am.

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Until the last statement, Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #1
I know some atheists who are not antitheist. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #2
A lot of atheists are not antitheists. Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #3
But we do have evidence edhopper Mar 2015 #4
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #14
My evidence that the Bible is not divinely inspired... Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #9
Not to mention.... AlbertCat Mar 2015 #10
Difference between Atheist and Antitheist LostOne4Ever Mar 2015 #5
Some of my best friends are theists Cartoonist Mar 2015 #6
When you said: LostOne4Ever Mar 2015 #7
Yes! That's one distinction I forgot to mention. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #8
I suppose there might be some kind of "cosmic consciousness" that could be called "god" in one sense AlbertCat Mar 2015 #11
That's why I call it philosophical speculation Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #15
I do not believe in those things. AlbertCat Mar 2015 #17
You lost me with NDE, but then you fell down a pit with atheist v antitheist. Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 #12
Let me clarify, then. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #16
I have a different take on it Lordquinton Mar 2015 #13
Science: Men, Methods, Goals SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #18
Science != Philosophical speculation. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #19
You saying so does not make it so SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #20
Whatever. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #21
ok SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #22
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