The majority of the world are religious or don't know what to believe, I would not totally dismiss religion to prevent from strayed. When constitutional law don't work, religious taboo can.

I have no religion but I have had bizarre encounter that keep me neutral, not between science & religion but the unknown. We can choose no to believe in any religion but we cannot stop wondering what is it if not religion.

Share our version of creation story that exempted us from religion? When god is out, only fantasy and science is on the table, I have no friends who are completely non influenced by religion at some degree though they don't practice.

All my employers are religious and check if our date of birth affect their fung shui, so it is not easy declaring oneself as free thinker.

Whatever the term used is only words that represent the non believing kind, why need to bother what implication it has on the believer? Not believing is offensive enough to many devotees, that we are like strayed and unappreciative to the creator. I appreciate my parent for bringing me up but not the fact that they gave birth to me because I did not ask for it, similar to the creator / god.

I simply cannot submit to the idea that only god knows why we are created yet we are free to do anything, however I do agree that most people need a religion because they feel insecure if not. I think that all criminals are non believer too, everything is good and bad, I hate when people reply a question as yes and no.

Which ever the profession, we should learn to stood neutral. The job is only our way to make a living not a standard that can apply to everyone, so as the choice to believe or not in a religion, adopt it and become a member of the group and led to politic if not war. Now I know why you would like to meet people with the same ideology but non believers are not always serious and diverse compared to religion group.

Although we chose no religion but an understanding for the reason why is where we stand, not just plain rejection without reason. My understanding of it came from Britannica Encyclopedia documentation that describe religion as a form of control before human civilization created politic and constitutional law, our existence can be either random or intentional but when people suffer, they generally ask why? So religion provide the answer and consolation.

If you have seen unjust and gained the understanding of scientific analytic manner of thinking, you tends to doubt and create your own answer than that of god's will. If parent did not force a child to practice before knowing what it is, the child is likely to follow without questioning, if one feel offended when challenged, it wasn't god's will but self esteem, the things that one believe is ultimate law of the universe.

There are more religious people than the not, they can claim that it is religion that keep the world in order, agree or not is not important as long as no genocide against the non believer.

No one disbelieve Venus Project except the zeitgeist movement, don't have to declare you believe in progress because no one will object openly even though they are destructive. Simply support a movement without a tangible solution is blind believing and it is not a place to house only the non believer, if that is the agenda, which country will fund it? Communist?

This post has been edited by 3dassets: Jan 19 2012, 02:12 PM

Your god sent you here or you just cannot resist thinking its a devil's cult? Since only your god know atheist is bad, how do you know? Didn't your religion educate you to mind your own business? Not like we gather here to destroy you. If god gave us the choice, then not our fault. Muslim says Allah is the only god, does that mean yours is fake? They also say only Muslim go to heaven the rest go to hell, you must be offended and that is why fighting a no ending war.

So, religion is a bad bad thing.

This post has been edited by 3dassets: Mar 7 2012, 03:26 PM

Agnostic is neither, something must created us or have influence on us because living being since dinosaur don't need intelligence to live a life, they just repeat life cycle. Why do human need intelligence and lead to doubt the creator is the question.

In a way, god believers accepted their fate and never doubt god's purpose, while some does not and will try to give an answer to the purpose of our existence, anything you can think of is not wrong because there is no right answer and has been thought of since long ago.

If you search deep enough, you will come across groups of people sharing the same thinking or believes, god / alien / creator is the same believe system, atheist believe in random creation but in denial of what created the Universe.