Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited February 2020

    MinusTwo, That is exactly why I started talking gardening. 😁


  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited February 2020

    For me, it is a matter of respect. I think I'm a live and let live person. If some people believe in the god of the bible, fine, I respect that. I would not invade their beliefs. Since this thread title specifically calls out to atheists, Jesus believers need not apply. I absolutely will not allow someone to come after me and shame me for my beliefs or nonbeliefs. Most especially not a Church lady. It is so freeing to be away from that. But I guess if your church gives you no power, you might go out and try to drum it up elsewhere.


  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2020

    The mods deleted her posts. Yay!!!

  • DogMomRunner
    DogMomRunner Member Posts: 616
    edited February 2020

    I don't get why someone cares if there are atheists. Here or anywhere. If they convert us the

  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited February 2020

    I think those believers who bother us are very insecure and lonely people. I don't think their posts are actually motivated by faith.

  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited February 2020

    THANK YOU MODS. WAY TO GO!!!

  • Yogatyme
    Yogatyme Member Posts: 2,349
    edited February 2020

    Amanda, I agree. I often wonder if they are afraid we are right and that truly scares the shit out of them. Maybe if they can convert us they can rest in their fairy tale waiting for the hereafter (missing out on the here). What I really hate is the hypocrisy of feeling like we should respect their beliefs but they don’t have to respect ours. I’m happy for others to be comforted in their faith, I just wish they could be happy for my beliefs and sources of comfort (top of the list is tollhouse cookies :-) ).

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2020

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️MODS.

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2020

    Got into a convo with a nice, church going woman while working. Must have been in the fall, Christmas and Halloween was coming. Told her how Samhain was a pagan festival. That it’s been proven Jesus was born in spring, that a pope in the 3rd century decided to outlaw Yule so his birth celebration could overshadow Yule. That Easter is a pagan fertility fest.

    She knew none of that. Predates all of the guy in the sky fantasy. Wars have been fought for centuries over this, still are.

    Too bad they can’t accept our way vs their highway .

  • JRNJ
    JRNJ Member Posts: 573
    edited February 2020

    Thanks for the info. I didn’t see the posts before they were deleted but I get it now.

  • LaurenInPHX
    LaurenInPHX Member Posts: 165
    edited February 2020

    Hi all. I’ve been doing Weight Watchers and hang out in their social media app Connect. I have taken to blocking members who post scripture and there are a lot of them. I felt guilty at first given how many I was blocking, but I just don’t want to see that crap - keep it to yourself. It doesn’t belong on a weight loss app.

    There are plenty of people who post prayer requests and I just scroll past them, but the big scripture pictures I can’t handle. I wasn’t this intolerant until they started affecting policy change, and now any mention of it is like nails on a chalkboard. I also blocked the one who describes herself as His princess. Good grief. I can’t even.

    In better news, I have lost 22 pounds. I’m working out, more or less, and my tumor markers are falling. I have another test on Monday and scans at end of month, and those are always stressful, but hopefully all will be well.

    Hoping all of you are well too. I’ve been lurking since I sometimes can’t control my tongue, but keeping up with all of you.

  • santabarbarian
    santabarbarian Member Posts: 3,085
    edited February 2020

    Wow lauren, good job on the fitness efforts!!

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2020
  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited February 2020

    Lauren - 22 lbs is great. Congrats. But OMG - "his princess"??? WTH.

  • debbew
    debbew Member Posts: 226
    edited February 2020

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    Just thought I'd share this. =)

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2020
  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited February 2020

    His princess.....ugh! Sounds very cult-like.

    Congrats, Lauren, on the weightloss.

    Anytime the local news Facebook page posts a car accident or something similar where someone was injured or reports of a body found, there are scores of people immediately posting the praying hands emoji and sometimes accompanying it by posting “prayers" Like the above cartoon, that helps in what way? It makes me want to barf.

    I get a suffocating feeling around religious items. Our voting precinct changed last year and is now in a church hall. The building used to be a grocery store. There are all these cluttery fake flower arrangements, urn like things, religious pictures and crosses and it made me want to hyperventilate while standing in the polling line. It feels so unnatural and fake.



  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2020

    Does your state have mail vote? Call the local board of elections to see. I do it here. So much easier than standing in a line in a place you don’t like😍

  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited February 2020

    We have vote by mail but somehow I like to go & vote in a booth.

    I always do 'early voting'. That means I can pick times when there's not likely to be anyone else there. It also means I can vote anywhere in the city. The last two elections I voted at a swanky new hotel. One time I voted at the SPJST hall but usually went to the community college to vote.

  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2020
  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited February 2020

    All our voting is by mail. I think it's fairer to people with kids and jobs. People with a long commute might never be able to vote because they have to leave so early and get home so late.

  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited February 2020

    Here's something I saw on FB today that's so true:

    Religion is about making rules to obey God, then immediately finding loopholes to break those rules.

  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited February 2020

    The mail in ballots, which we have in Ohio, are great. I know a few states where it is all mail in ballots and can see the advantages of it.

    I live in a small town. I can look out the back door and see my former polling place on the next street over. My new polling place is a whopping two streets over. Ever since we were married 30 years ago. Dh and I have gone together to vote if our schedules allow. We know people who work the polls (I've done it before) and often run in to other people we know. In a small town, election day can be something of a social event and more so when there are exciting issues and nominations on the ballot and the turn out is bigger. I'll put up with the heebie jeebies of the polling surroundings for now. I already have to put up with being right smack dab in the middle of trump country.


  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited February 2020
  • wanderweg
    wanderweg Member Posts: 549
    edited February 2020

    We have early voting here so I'm able to get in and out of a polling place in just a few minutes.

  • wanderweg
    wanderweg Member Posts: 549
    edited February 2020

    BTW, I'm glad the mods stepped in and deleted the comments of the religious person. She'd been warned so I don't even understand why she was posting on here again. There are surely enough places where meaningless "thoughts and prayers" are welcome?

  • HikingLady
    HikingLady Member Posts: 650
    edited February 2020

    AliceBastable I love the science/figure things out meme!

    I drop by this thread often for a little brain pep-up, although I rarely post. Thanks to everyone for the ongoing discussion---helps keep me sane! I'm very irritated by the paternalism of organized religion, as well as the absence of self-determination, responsibility and critical thinking. Alas....

    DivineMrsM That seems like a very weird NON separation of Church and State for a voting location to be in a church! It's borderline advertising. Next, we'll be voting in a Target store? Voting should be in public buildings! Argghh.

    Oregon has mail-in ballots; this has been in place since 1998. As far as I can tell, it works really well. I appreciate the option to take my time researching and voting, rather than have to do it all at once. This system is also really helpful for people with challenging work hours. We usually have our voters' guide first, then our ballots for about two weeks before the day they have to arrive at the precinct. We can mail them, or drop them off (libraries, county offices, schools....various locations) any time over those two weeks.

  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited February 2020

    A lot of voting is done in church buildings where I live, in the cafeterias or gymnasiums or multi-purpose rooms, whatever is large enough. I guess I'm so used to it that I don't even notice what's hanging on the walls. My current voting place is a public school, and it's not nearly as convenient as the previous place in a church meeting room that I could walk to.

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited February 2020

    Many years ago they used the schools here. The traffic jams in the am were unbelievable. Then it was apparently decided some weirdo could stay in a building and cause havoc, so that was stopped. Now churches and other places are used. Still doesn’t mean a weirdo couldn’t stay behind, but no kids would get shot. I think too there is payment involved for use of the place. Not sure about that.

  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited February 2020

    The museum research and collections center where I worked used to allow their public meeting and education room to be used for voting. It was inconvenient because it was barely handicapped accessible, with an open box elevator that was usually used to haul folding tables and chairs in and out. A security guard had to operate it because of the stiff door and controls, so with several older and disabled voters using it all day, we heard the creaks and shrieks of un-oiled metal all day. We were so relieved when they decided to convert the space to more library and archives stacks with no public access!

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