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10-13-2010, 02:26 PM
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New Member!
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Greenwood, SC
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Hello everyone!
My name is Carrie. I'm 25, I'm married and have been with my spouse for 7 years, and I have two kids--a 5-year-old boy named Aydan and an 11-month-old girl named Rylie. I was indoctrinated into christianity as a child and followed it until I was about 16 when the leader of the church I attended told me I had to come to church as many times as she saw fit if I wanted to participate in church activities. I began questioning my beliefs then and quickly realized I had been misled. I've been an atheist for 10 years, and it makes me feel great! Letting go of the fear and guilt that religion instills has made me feel freer, happier, more open-minded, more enlightened, more optimistic, more at peace, and more loving of life than I ever felt before. Every day, I open my eyes a little more to the truth, and I find it exhilirating! I would rather know the hard truth than believe a sugar-coated fantasy. I love to learn new things, and I am comfortable with the unknown during my quest to answer my questions.
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10-13-2010, 02:33 PM
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Stinkin' Mod
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Britland
Posts: 13,616
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Greetings Sweetie. You obviously aren't a 'real atheist' or you'd have eaten those damn kids - but we'll forgive you!
Stop the Holy See men! |
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10-13-2010, 03:04 PM
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I Live Here
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 9,613
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welcome
 Jump right in and enjoy “'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." Fry |
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10-14-2010, 05:11 AM
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New Member!
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Greenwood, SC
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LOL@smellyoldgit, love the screen name. Thanks to both of you, I will!
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10-14-2010, 08:50 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Staffordshire UK
Posts: 34
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Welcome sweetsauce from one newbie to another. This forums great. Hope you enjoy.
Religion, dont tread on me. |
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10-14-2010, 09:26 AM
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He who walks among the theists
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Big D
Posts: 12,119
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Welcome sweetsauce, good to have you here.
How often do you catch grief for being an atheist in SC? Also, I'm curious: is your spouse an atheist as well? "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." George Bernard Shaw |
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10-14-2010, 10:17 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Puerto Rico
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god intro, sweet!
and wecome to our humble forum. One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected....That they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly. H. L. Mencken |
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10-14-2010, 11:49 AM
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I Live Here
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Rocky Mountains, USA
Posts: 10,218
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Atheists do, however, love other people's children. Especially if it's a male atheist taking over a pride; he will almost always eat all the existing children, which he then converts to super cannibal baby sperm that he uses to impregnate the pride's females, ensuring his lineage will dominate. "Science and Mother Nature are in a marriage where Science is always surprised to come home and find Mother Nature blowing the neighbor." - Justin's Dad |
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10-14-2010, 01:04 PM
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General of the Attacking Army
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 12,904
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Welcome!
 I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow |
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10-14-2010, 01:36 PM
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Stinkin' Mod
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Britland
Posts: 13,616
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 Stop the Holy See men! |
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10-15-2010, 12:42 AM
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 110
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Interesting evidence right there smelly...
Oh and welcome! You got married when you were 18? Damn that's, umm, early! Always Thinking How Everybody Is Stupidly Tractable |
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10-15-2010, 11:41 AM
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I Live Here
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 5,158
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Welcome and I hope you enjoy yourself. May the force be with you.
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