Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

AliceBastable

Elderberry, I rather like crows. They're clever. Yes to Corvid, no to Covid!

illimae

Melbo, I agree and I am guilty of not preventing an accidental breeding between our English and our Frenchie. The result was 4 amazing little ones, who lived long (10-14 yrs), happy lives but in the future we will adopt local muts.

Here’s a message from God, lol

AliceBastable

Illimae, I love that!

Betrayal

Alice: Your bird story takes the prize for today. I know it was not funny at the time but can you laugh about it now? It's priceless.

AliceBastable

Betrayal, given time, I can laugh about nearly ANYTHING, much to the dismay of my more sensitive loved ones.

Betrayal

Alice, you have a gift for making others laugh as well. Thank you for sharing.

AliceBastable

Betrayal, Aw, thanks.

magiclight

It is August and still a neighbor displays the bumper sign "keep christ in christmas" I guess they know that if you take christ out of Christmas, you are left with 'mas' meaning more in Spanish. So getting rid of Christ leaves one with more and they must want less.

Trishyla

I like the way you think, magiclight.

Elderberry

magiclight

Clear and explicit venn diagram

AliceBastable

Very clear and very frightening.

On a lighter note...

blue22

Shouldn't that be a book of mormon, and they should be wearing name tags?

When the mormons wouldn't leave me alone a friend recommend I invite them in for a beer.

blue22

I find it very refreshing to have conversations with my religious friends/family that are vaccinated and don't have crazy ideas about the origins of coronavirus. But then my mother starts talking about the end of the world coming....

KIDI919

Blue22 My MIL use to cry about the end until it didn't happen. Now she just doesn't like what's going on in the world today. Well guess what? Most people don't. As long as there are people there will be sickness, wars and just plain old fighting. Seems like people are the problem on Earth. I kinda have to laugh about ppl going to space...like that's going to be any better? Anyone remember the Twilight Zone episode where these guys steal a ton of gold and then wake up 100 yrs later and find it's worthless? We don't need the devil... we are own worse enemy.

saltmarsh

I have to say, after years of dodging and hiding behind my couch when JWs or Mormons came to my door, there finally came a day when I threw it open, so glad to see them! It's when my son was a baby and I was home, alone, all the time. He was medically complicated and I couldn't take him anywhere and so I was stuck in my apartment for months and desperate for interaction with the outside world. So, when the JWs started making the rounds in my neighborhood, I decided to invite them in and have a chat. I love talking about religion and decided, what the heck?

When they came to my door, it was two women (there were two guys creepily waiting for them in a car with tinted windows), and I invited them in, and they shared their literature with me and promised to come back the following week, on Tuesday. I was so excited! Tuesday they no-showed, but Thursday one of the women showed up with a new woman with her. I had looked over their stuff and I had questions prepared, but perhaps some of my questions were too pointed? Or hard to answer? So they asked if one of the men could. come in. I said yes, but he really didn't like me asking why they had a pamphlet with a picture of apex predators near farm animals and small children, and how that relationship was supposed to work out. He also seemed not to appreciate that I wanted to hear what the women had to say. They left promising to come back, but never did. Ah, well!

Elderberry

I think the End Timers must be beside themselves with joy. We've got wars, famine, floods, fires and pestilence. Can the Rapture be not too far away?

illimae

Elderberry, even as an atheist, I see so much happening at once, that I seriously wonder if the planet has had enough of us. How much population, pollution and destruction can earth take? And while I’m not so much a blessing in disguise person, I am very happy to have chosen not to bring life to this world and a little relieved that I probably won’t see the worst of it. I realize it’s a gloomy outlook for a naturally happy person but with all the floods, fires, huge earthquakes, global pandemic and bubbling unrest, it’s a lot.

AliceBastable

I wish the rapture-believers would get sucked up into their heaven (where I want KARMA for them) and let the rest of us get on with fixing what they screwed up.

KIDI919

illimae: I do think mother nature has had her fill of people.

Elderberry

illimae: my DH suggested that when we have a virus out bodies gets overheated to destroy the virus and we human beings have become a virus. Gaia is ridding herself of us - a pox on the planet. Then the trees, the water, the animals can come back and thrive. I say that as someone who doesn't believe The Great Mother is actual a deity but it is a life force/energy.

I am glad to be the age I am, having had no children. I am glad not to be 20 something and thinking about having a family. If I was the kind of kid I was at age 12 and was 12 now I would be overwhelmed, depressed and angry. Yup, we Baby Boomers were not going to make the same mistakes as our parents, we would save the world. We would be the harbingers of the Age of Aquarius. Nice job. Not.

saltmarsh

Gotta say, as the mom of a teen, I feel solidly like both an idiot and a horrible person for bringing him into this world. I feel like the writing was on the wall and I should have known better. I am both so glad I have him, and so worried that he is doomed and there's nothing I can do to save him or fix it. On any given day, I can't think too honestly about what the future might hold for him, because it is too terrifying. Making the choice to act-as-if -- work for a better world and plan for my child to have a full life -- is the only way I can cope. Because the thought that I've brought him into a world that will wipe us all out before he's had a chance to live is a devastating, potentially paralyzing one.

illimae

Saltmarsh, I’m sorry that those feelings weigh on you but I so appreciate the honesty expressed. I wonder if many parents feel that way and just don’t speak it. I wish you the best luck.

Aram

I am so happy for this thread. I see so many "I pray for you", "he is going to help" (why not she?) or "he is looking after us" on these boards that without this thread I might have thought I am alone!

Wren44

Welcome Aram. There certainly seem to be a lot of people praying for themselves and others.

magiclight

Wouldn't it be nice to be a god (she or he) that has no responsibility for causing problems but gets so much credit for fixing them. What a nice job for a narcissist. In a way I'm glad that so many on this site have that shero/hero to look to for relief. If only they did not hoist their beliefs onto the rest of us.

Half of Americans say Bible should influence U.S. laws, including 28% who favor it over the will of the people | Pew Research Center

AliceBastable

magiclight, that's seriously scary. But it's the Christians who claim persecution. 🙄

saltmarsh

I am absolutely jealous of people who have faith. It nearly always makes everything so much simpler, and nicer. And sometimes fun!

Miriandra

We can still have the fun without the dogma. We can enjoy the holidays, the food, the festivals, and all the good wishes without having to take on the fear, the guilt (unless we're on a diet), the shame, or the petty restrictions.

blue22

saltmarsh - Occasionally I think how much easier life would be if I could just follow the religion I was raised in, but I fell on my head as a child and it knocked too much sense into me.

Religion was rarely fun, and far from nice.