Puzzled

[Theland]

I am still puzzled why so many unbelievers bother to show any interest in matters of belief and religion.
It would be like me suddenly posting on a cookery thread.
Not going to happen.
Why is this?

[kvalidir]

Perhaps because other people's religious beliefs affect them?

[mibn2cweus]

They came seeking wisdom . . . or so I thought.

[Theland]

And what about you, Mibs?
Surely your time would be better spent on some subject that you at least half agree with?

[Peter Pedant]

mainstream inconsistency - they post on religion threads

so it is NOT like you suddenly posting on a cookery thread. You state it isnt going to happen - whereas it does happen for them and religion
so it isnt like - it is completely unlike

because.... ( they post - not why do you have no interest in cookery and yet you eat ...) they post because you dont have to be religious to wonder where you/one came from and where you might be going.
and then seeing if religion has any better ideas that Stephen Hawking

[Malachite]

Maybe because they are fascinated a) why people believe in such things and b) why you still insist that being an "unbeliever" is some sort of religion.

[douglas9401]

Another failed experiment draws to a close and we revert to type.

[mibn2cweus]

For many of us it has been a difficult road undoing the influence religion continues to hold over us. Part of the healing process involves attempting to warn others of the dangers of religious influence and helping them in their struggles to return from the dark side.

[Mamyalynne]

Salvation then ?

[Theland]

But the atheist insist they came from nowhere, have no purpose, and go back to nowhere when they snuff it.
So why waste valuable limited time arguing with believers?
Surely they would be better off engaged in more hedonistic pursuits?
If some are trying to seek understanding of the universe, why come to this address?
They have already decided it is all bunkum.

[johnny.5]

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

[gness]

Theland....we have to show an interest in things that harm and damage us and the world in which we live.....things like religion.......x

[1ozzy]

//Surely they would be better off engaged in more hedonistic pursuits?//

Good point, I'm heading to my wifes to choose a nice frock wardrobe then having a beer.

[Theland]

Oh yes the Judeo Christian religion lon which the whole of western civilisation was founded and built? That one?

[kvalidir]

The whole of Western Civilisation was built on the Judeo Christian religion? Really? You should go back to school and study your history books if you think that's true.

[Theland]

Yes true.
I am not a numpty when it comes to social and economic history and the part that religion played in it.
What school?
What book?

[Malachite]

I'm trying to work out if my last post was removed because it contained a mild expletive, whether someone took the phrase literally (as opposed to it's actual mening: making fun of) or whether it was considered offensive to entertain the notion that someone might visit R&S to make fun of people. Either way, I apologise if someone was offended.

[mibn2cweus]

I affirm my right to refute the claims made by believers of me as one who does not subscribe to the beliefs nor their presumptions.

[Theland]

I am never offended.
Keep em coming.

[Malachite]

..apologies also for "it's" and "mening" ..typos I assure you.