Atheist Zone | mikerussell | Activity https://atheistzone.com/members/mikerussell/activity/ Activity feed for mikerussell. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:08:56 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3de036c5b123e799fd5491010c8b1f60 mikerussell replied to the topic Failed Conversion in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/failed-conversion/page/2/#post-3892 Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:27:51 +0000

Andrew Brown wrote:
“Faith is not a path to truth.”

 

I’ll have to try that one 😉

]]> 5ef1ebf1be46ecae0cc2a6f70352c6f7 mikerussell replied to the topic Failed Conversion in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/failed-conversion/page/2/#post-3891 Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:25:41 +0000 I believe that we all have to believe in something. For me, it is science, music, art, friendship, respect and love, etc.

My mother is an extreme ‘godist’ – she’s a Franciscan, which is supposedly some sort of really godly sort of person – she used to be a nun, so I’m told, so I wonder how I got here.

Anyway, I live with her as her carer and we…[Read more]

]]> d19ab0135f4f43cd51b7009dc6d5f11e mikerussell replied to the topic Is Atheism considered a "worldview?" in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/is-atheism-considered-a-worldview/page/2/#post-3889 Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:02:44 +0000 I’m finding it hard to understand why someone would need the term ‘worldview’ to express their ‘atheist’ standpoint – surely ‘atheist’ is enough?  Why bother with all this definition?  For me, at least, I simply don’t think that there is a god and have never heard any argument that convinces me otherwise and so I don’t need a word to define what I…[Read more]

]]> 9b8c156fda35a3be020dbd349120de82 mikerussell replied to the topic No Respect in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/no-respect/#post-3888 Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:44:35 +0000 It’s in our language, “Would you bed Madonna?”  “Oh god no!”  We might swear and say, “Fucking hell!”  Etc, etc, etc.  Many Western societies were built by Christians.  As it is today, we of the atheist persuasion are in the minority and so we are likely to see children brought up in this verbal environment, thus perpetuating this sort of thing…[Read more]

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