What Happens At An Atheist Church?

[goodlife]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21319945

[boxtops]

I don't fear the truth when the JWs coming knocking at my door. I don't buy anything over the phone or at the door. What gives JW the right to interrupt my precious leisure time by trying to sell me religion, cold-calling, when I'm perfectly happy with what I've got already?

[modeller]

beckersjay #And if I am an Answerbank atheist (which I am not...)I believe it as vehemently as most believers do in their religions and spiritual beliefs.... #

I don't believe pigs fly #vehemently# or otherwise .
I don't believe pigs fly because my experience of this world produces no evidence that they do. I don't have a holy book or belong to an Apigism
belief. If however if a pigist knocks on my door or writes about pigism in
in AB I will challenge them to prove it and point out what I think is nonsense in their claim. However if they are able to demonstrate in a practical way, which is repeatable , that pigs do fly I am quite prepared to believe them. In fact I would welcome the fact because my eyes are open to new knowledge.

[beckersjay]

Naomi24: Beckersjay, //it's a pity we don't see more people following their example on this topic of Answerbank.//

If that’s your experience, I agree, It’s not nice to be told continually that you’re immoral, blind, and doomed for eternity.

For once I agree with you, except that I've never been told this by any of the JWs I've met.

Modeller: My old granny used to say ' if you can't think of anythying nice or polite to say, don't say anything at all' so I'll just say 'have a good weekend'.

[modeller]

Good for your granny . Most grannies say that when they haven't an answer.

[naomi24]

Beckersjay, //I've never been told this by any of the JWs I've met.//

Of course you haven’t. As a believer, you’re already halfway there and therefore you're an easier target for them. They reserve the prophecies of doom for the hopeless cases. Read some of Goodlife's deliberations.

[modeller]

When JWs call on me I always say I'll discuss anything with you on one condition 'You don't quote from the bible ' or from literature which is copied from the bible. That leaves them tonque tied.

I point out to them they can't use the bible to prove the bible, which is in any case written by man.
It's quite amusing sometimes to see them open it, hesitate and put it away again.

[beckersjay]

Naomi24:'Of course you haven’t. As a believer, you’re already halfway there and therefore you're an easier target for them. They reserve the prophecies of doom for the hopeless cases.'
Actually, you know very little about my beliefs, but I can assure you they have very little in common with those of a JW.

[naomi24]

Beckersjay, //Actually, you know very little about my beliefs, but I can assure you they have very little in common with those of a JW. //

I don't claim to know anything at all about your beliefs - except that you are a believer, which is what I said.

[beckersjay]

Naomi24: Everyone believes in something, Naomi...

[naomi24]

Beckersjay, perhaps so ... but some require evidence to support that belief.

[modeller]

#Everyone believes in something,#

Depends what you mean by something. I don't believe in man made deities and religions, but I do believe that some people have second sight, in this life , which may be liinked to telepathy. The reason is because I experienced it for years, that's evidence.

[cathfromsaron]

isn't that just a social club then?

[RATTER15]

Modeller, I think that is just evidence of your over active imagination and nothing else.

[modeller]

Ratter You are right to think so if you have not experienced something yourself.
I have related some of my experiences in other posts but let tell you what happened to me dozens of times as a child and as an adult.

In all families we lose relatives or they are taken ill hundreds of miles away and we dont know what has happened until in the past we got a telegram.

However my mother knew what had happened packed a bag and was on the train hours before we received it. Sometimes my father and I would come home and there would be a note from my mother saying she had gone to whoever was ill or had died or her sister had given birth etc.
An hour later we would get a telegram saying " We expect you already know but so and so had happened " This was normal in our family my mother had this ' second sight ' call it what you will. We all accepted it as normal. On one occasion she knew I was in hospital in Egypt and wrote to me asking why I hadn't told her. For 60 odd years I lived with it as a normal part of life.
Maybe Ratter you have a better explanation than # a vivid imagination. #