And, even though by now I thought there was truth, I had no knowledge of God, Christ, or the Church and no interest in learning more. So, my only reason for going on the tour was to cling to my dear new friends. The first miracle came when I saw Chartres Cathedral in France. I ...
As an atheist, I have yet to find secular equivalents for these things, and it is something that I miss. I do periodically go to church with my friends but the large difference in worldviews makes the experience considerably less enjoyable for me. A lot of Christians have faith, but what...
Or Am I? | I Am An AtheistI need someone's opinion on this pls. I stopped going to church (Catholic) years ago, and up until now I never really actually embraced the fact that I'm very much against the belief in God or gods. I...Or Am IPoetry...
you have no idea, we still get stories of witchcraft in newspapers down here and the government is informally theocratic, a 91 year old dictator who has ruled for 35 years through democratic means because church leaders say God chose him, and yes, homosexuality will get you a 5 year jail ...
We are all at least casually familiar with the figure of Martin Luther, and his sturdy opposition to the Catholic Church. How many of us know about the radical preacher Thomas Münzter, who called for the complete overturning of the feudal social order, invoking Christian doctrine as his justi...
"About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember, I have resented mass indoctrination.” “It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains...
(from anyone who doesn’t already know). If you want to stop going to church, that’s a tougher sell because your family’s friends in the congregation will notice; you can use the angle of not wanting to be there without conviction, or the implied threat that your disbelief could ...
1580 Words 7 Pages Open Document It’s been growing quickly since 1990, Atheism are not easy to define; It’s subject to personal bias and various definitions that conflict and don’t follow the rest of the group it defines. It is generally accepted and agreed upon that Atheism is: The ...
The court defeat leaves the $14-million estate of the late, cranky James Hervey Johnson of San Diego--as well as the oldest atheist publication in the country--in the hands of a church-going Episcopalian and a Mormon, who say they intend to carry out Johnson’s wishes of exposing “rel...
means “known” to create the word agnostic which has come to mean “the existence of God is unknown and/or unknowable.” He used the word gnostic as a reference to the word “Gnosticism,” a branch of early Christianity which was eventually declared to be heresy by the Orthodox Church....