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Sometimes -just for old times sake I (atheist ) pray for help. If help I pray for is provided 3 different times should I feel obligation to believe in God?

"Darn it God I was really sure you were non-existent"

Posted - August 28, 2016

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  • 3907

    Hello K:

    As I read the Atheist Handbook, you're allowed 2 goddamn's a day, 2 god bless you's, and one OMG.  If you go over, you ARE obligated to go to church..

    excon

      August 28, 2016 9:47 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Ok but just for my funeral.
      August 28, 2016 9:50 AM MDT
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  • 6988

     What about "son-of-a- bee?" 

      August 28, 2016 9:52 AM MDT
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  • 11111

    Ya it's like that with Santa Clause too. When I was about 45 I stopped believing in him. Then a few years after that I thought I would write him a letter for old times sake. That Christmas there was a new chain saw under the Christmas tree and it was exactly like the one I asked for in the letter. Cheers and happy weekend!

      August 28, 2016 9:54 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    You do believe in God.  It is so obvious.  You cannot stop talking about Him.

      August 28, 2016 9:56 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    That's an idea. I could start believing in Santa again as well.
      August 28, 2016 10:00 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Could be but it's the man made scriptures that screw my thinking
      August 28, 2016 10:04 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Ok.
      August 28, 2016 10:15 AM MDT
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  • 5835

    Do you know anything that is right? How do you know? What we call "right" is determined by a list of things that we carry in our head, invisible. Quite often you meet someone who has a very different list from yours and the two of you consider each other to be deluded. That is the meeting of a believer and an unbeliever. An atheist insists there is no such list.

      August 28, 2016 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    I pray for health, wisdom and compassion but not necessarily for myself all the time.
    I think sometimes somebody else gets it instead and I don't.
      August 28, 2016 1:46 PM MDT
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  • 1393

    "it's the man made scriptures that screw my thinking"

    1- If all or most of what it said made sense to you would it really matter that it was man made?

    2- Perhaps it's the proportion of statements that don't make sense, or the degree by which they don't make sense, that screws up your thinking. If so why not check up other scriptures. They might have none or they might have levels that are low enough to be acceptable to you.

      August 28, 2016 4:45 PM MDT
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  • 5808

      August 28, 2016 5:04 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Power of positive thinking.
      August 28, 2016 5:57 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    I wouldn't know where to begin to try to deconfuse things of the bible.
    I have read parts and pieces of different scriptures; i've not been very much inclined to settle into reading whole books much at all.
      August 28, 2016 6:13 PM MDT
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  • 1393

    I'm a bit puzzled.

    You sound like the atheist who on hearing horrible things about believers said, "Thank God I'm an atheist."

    Did you temporarily become a believer so that you could pray and then reverted back to atheism afterwards? Or were you giving God a chance to show up, like the Australian guy in this video who grew up atheist asking God for a sign in the middle of the night saying something like, "I know you must be busy. There's probably a lot happening on the other side of the world.... but if you could just make this candle ruse up in the air, like in the movies... that must be nothing for you, after all you made the whole universe...."

     

      August 29, 2016 5:34 AM MDT
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  • 34282
    It does not make sense for an atheist to pray to me....if you don't believe why would you pray? If one is simply not sure then one may actually be a agnostic in search of a reason to believe in God and not a true atheist.
      August 29, 2016 5:58 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    I'm more inclined to believe in a phenomenon known as power of the mind rather than a supernatural force even after one time I was heavy into alcoliism and my Pentecostal friends dragged me to their church when i had a servere hangover then early in the service I miraculously recovered and felt better than I ever did before. Every one noticed and I spent the afternoon with those friends but when I finally got home one of my drinking buddies came over with some booze and I couldn't resist. I finally did quit the booze years later on my own Accord without outside help. But i've had other significant experiences of mental and physical healing that came about of a suitably inspired mind power.
    I do not have to need a religion or believe in supernatural powers.
      August 29, 2016 7:52 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Pray to you? No, like sometimes like I say I might pray just for old times sake like I did when I was a Christian for the 1 percent chance a God might exist..
      August 29, 2016 8:04 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Faith can 'move mountains' if one can be inspired to achieve absolute faith in ..something.
      August 29, 2016 9:17 AM MDT
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  • 1393

    "different scriptures"? or scriptures of different religions?

      September 2, 2016 11:28 AM MDT
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  • 1393

    so what is this "power"? Is it a natural power?

      September 2, 2016 11:33 AM MDT
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  • 34282
    Are you healthy, are you compassionate? I can see you are not dumb. Are you sure you are not getting answers to your prayers?
      September 4, 2016 6:46 AM MDT
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  • 34282
    Not pray to me. To God.
    Should have a comma.

    It does not make sense for an atheist to pray, to me.
      September 4, 2016 6:52 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    I don't really think I am getting prayers answered supernaturally. But if there is a God I think he has been fairly good to me.
    Guess i'll find out if there is a God when I kick the bucket...

    But my honest thought is "GOD DOES NOT EXIST"
      September 4, 2016 7:58 AM MDT
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