Can Atheists Be Parents?

[Kyle (Premo)]

Originally Posted by smoothmarine187

God should come down and pass out books and say "This is the way it is", instead of people making up their own ways on how to get to heaven. If I had to choose I would pick the one that had me die and get 13 virgins

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... And if you get your calling in the next five minutes, as a bonus, you'll get: A billion cases of beer, two tractor trailers of smokes....

[Dymphna]

Originally Posted by smoothmarine187

God should come down and pass out books and say "This is the way it is", instead of people making up their own ways on how to get to heaven. If I had to choose I would pick the one that had me die and get 13 virgins

Why should He/She/It/Them do that?

[Dye Tied (Premo)]

So, atheists can be parents because they have morals and ethics just like the next person. As we all know, going to a church does not make one moral or ethical.

[smoothmarine187]

Originally Posted by Dymphna

Why? When a crime is committed and there are multiple witnesses and they all tell different stories, are most of them lying?

Wow, talk about a bad analogy. 13 virgins it is

[Dye Tied (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Dymphna

Why? When a crime is committed and there are multiple witnesses and they all tell different stories, are most of them lying?

well, if many religions are telling many different stories, aren't most of them lying too?

[smoothmarine187]

Originally Posted by Kyle

They're waiting for you now.

... And if you get your calling in the next five minutes, as a bonus, you'll get: A billion cases of beer, two tractor trailers of smokes....

That's what I'm talking about

Originally Posted by Dymphna

Why should He/She/It/Them do that?

What if one of these man made religions is wrong, and people are spending all their time doing the wrong thing so they are going to hell. Shouldn't god tell us how we need to pray to him and what we need to do in order to go to heaven?

[Dymphna]

Originally Posted by Dye Tied

well, if many religions are telling many different stories, aren't most of them lying too?

Probably, but we aren't talking about religious institutions, we are talking about "God" or "gods" which is much, much different than the human beings who created churches and organized religion.

[Kyle (Premo)]

Originally Posted by smoothmarine187

That's what I'm talking about



What if one of these man made religions is wrong, and people are spending all their time doing the wrong thing so they are going to hell. Shouldn't god tell us how we need to pray to him and what we need to do in order to go to heaven?

You only have four minutes left.

[smoothmarine187]

Originally Posted by Kyle

You only have four minutes left.

Virgin de guadalupe, madre de dios, ayudame

[Dymphna]

Originally Posted by smoothmarine187

That's what I'm talking about



What if one of these man made religions is wrong, and people are spending all their time doing the wrong thing so they are going to hell. Shouldn't god tell us how we need to pray to him and what we need to do in order to go to heaven?

Most, if not all, of the man-made religions are wrong. They are man-made and as such highly fallible. Agnostics don't believe in man-made religions, yet recognize that there might just be some sort of "God." That's different from Atheists, who don't recognize the possibility that there is any sort of higher power, commonly referred to as "God."

I'm not talking about Agnostics. Organized religions have been defunct and changed so much over the years, Agnostics might just have a point.