Comments on: FAQ: What do you atheists worship, then?

By: Kren

Kren — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:15:28 +0000

Ah Dibbler, I hear you.
Keeping peace vs. being honest… I’ll go right ahead and lie to my parents, just so I don’t have to hear hours of… stuff.

As for the post itself:

I think that most peoples idea of WORSHIP, is of prayer and/or FOCUS on a subject, be it christ, or muhammad, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Prayer and focus are akin to meditation. I think most/all of those people who ask “What do you worship” are actually convinced that if you MEDITATE on anything other than a deity, you won’t get the same kind of feeling you get while meditating about anything.

All that said, perhaps ONE of the reasons it is so hard to show some people the truth, is that they’ve been given the POSITIVE re-enforcement of meditation itself, disguised as religion.

By: cmotdibbler

cmotdibbler — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:15 +0000

To keep the peace in the family I “faithfully” attend a small non-denominational church. Most of the people know I’m not part of the collective and usually leave me alone. Though sometimes some amusing situations arise when a new potential drone starts asking me questions regarding the church. Occasionally some issue comes up regarding science (there a number of YEC there) and I was told that Evolution is a religion and how a visit to Ken Ham’s Creation Museum would set me straight. After attending more than a few Christian apologetics seminars I simply refuse to attend any more of these. I make a modest living as a scientist and refuse to add funds to the “opposition”. Ditto for the upcoming “Intelligent Design Creationism movie”

By: Chicken Girl

Chicken Girl — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:01:38 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I had a really irritating exchange on my blog with some Muslims on this topic: They were like, “So what do you believe, then?” So I talked a little bit about skepticism and my need to examine any prospective “beliefs” before accepting them, and how, ultimately, there isn’t any evidence to suggest, much less prove, the existence of an omnimax deity and intellectual honesty prevents me from accepting anything like that without adequate proof…

The only response I kept getting from them was, “Why won’t you answer my question?! WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE??“