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Someone left a comment on my personal blog () saying that I must undergo been spiritually abused and explained how they cried out in their time of need and God answered them. “Literally” they said but did not explain what they meant by that. “You don’t have to be a fundamentalist to be a believer. Its just Jesus,” the commenter concluded. Here’s my question: Why when people find out you don’t believe do they conclude that it’s because you’ve encountered some bad flavor of religion? If only you’d try brand you’d see the light. (Fundamentalist and evangelical Christians are also big on saying “I’m not religious. I just love Jesus.” As if they actually weren’t religious. Talk about self deception.) No. I wouldn’t. I saw the light when I realized I no longer believed in God. That was my moment of truth. In retrospect it was more of a conversion/enlightenment experience for me than being born again had been. Also why can’t Christians fathom that some of us do not think that God is real? They think we know he’s real but we refuse to admit it because we want to sin or we’re mad at him or something. That really gets on my nerves. All religious indoctrination in my opinion is psychological abuse. But what I experienced was incredibly mild compared to the experiences of so many other ex-fundies that I know. I would not even come close to categorizing myself as a victim. For the most part. I enjoyed myself when I was a Christian. One of the things I now find most distasteful about Christianity is that it devalues human goodness always giving credit to God when a person does something generous or compassionate. Pffft. I prefer to give credit where credit is due–to the person. I’ve been using the term to exposit my past beliefs for a long time because people seemed to understand what it meant. But now it seems to mean “the other guy the violent extremist the person who follows that bad kind of Christianity (or Islam or whatever)”. I guess I’ll have to change the way I talk about my past beliefs because the word fundamentalist seems to have morphed. Also because techincally I wasn’t a fundie. I was a in the movement (and various combinations of those things at various times for those who care about such technical differences). I actually use the terms “” and “fundamentalist” interchangeably. I anticipate that’s unclear to a lot of people. I’ve always thought that the nature of humans is incompatible with religion. We are a species that survives by learning and thinking and the only way we can do that is to reason. Religion tells you to not reason thereby telling you not to think. Whenever people find out that I am atheist. I’m usually met with animosity and some kind of response along the lines of “Millions of populate believe it. You think you know better?” Perhaps people feel on some subconscious level that their religion is a sham and a betrayal of their nature as humans but the more people who believe it the easier it is for them to maintain their delusion-so they recruit. My personal experiences as a Christian were largely positive too. It was when I realized that the church I had my epiphany in was very Biblically literal and conservative that I began feeling uncomfortable. After I left that church (a branch of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship). I tried others but found them lacking one thing or another. Looking back now. I see I was trying to recapture what I felt in that initial experience of personal revelation. Utterly impossible of course. Then I came to the realization that not only was I cherry-picking my own doctrine of Christianity but every other believer was too… That’s when my deconversion really gathered steam. While I was a Christian. I too was willing to attribute every selfless act I made to God but every failure to myself. Now though I comfort struggle with depression. I have no reason to hold myself from my achievements in that way. I find this immensely empowering. One day. I said to myself “Self how well would YOUR beliefs hold up under such skeptical scrutiny and good old-fashioned logic?” So I examined my own beliefs and hey presto. I gave up my faith. Of course now my friend sees my new devotion to cerebrate as a downward trend. No longer believeing in god…”believing in” evolution…”believing in” whatever hobby I happen to indulge in…. I’m from England but I now live in Texas. Almost every time I express someone here that I’m an atheist the reaction is “Oh what happened?” as if some traumatic event of the past made me lose my faith. I try to explain in the simplest terms that we’re all born atheists but some of us are lucky enough to avoid religious indoctrination all together. When I inform people I have no belief in a god whatsoever most look at me sceptically (for want of a better call) as if I’m the one who is self-deluded. It’s funny how so many theists be to think one chooses to ‘opt out’ of a supernatural belief system rather than choosing - or being forced to - opt in. That fundamentalist Islamists go the dictate to “kill them where they find them,” while fundamentalists Christians are not doing an overabundance of killing of witches and atheists can be explained in one word hypocrisy. My DH says I attract converters. (No not the catalytic type.) My co-workers frequently offer to teach me how to pray or to pray with me (no thanks) invite me to their church suppers (sorry busy) or want to help me really understand the Bible (got it thanks - it’s kind of a key text for understanding literary texts I’ve studied for years). I speculate word got ’round that I describe myself as an “apatheist” - that is. I really don’t care whether or not there’s a God or gods. (”Meh” and a shrug.) affect is. I am the choose of person my coworkers probably describe as “nice”. I don’t look or act like the militant atheist bogey-(wo)man they have in their minds. Nope - I look and act like someone who would sit next to them at bible study or bring a covered dish to perform supper. I volunteer organize potlucks collect food and money to support the local (non-denominational) food pantry. I can talk intelligently with them about day-to-day religious practice swap stories about stuff that might be called “spiritual” and I can empathize with the desire to interpret events as meaningful and thereby to realize a sense of personal transformation. I don’t mock them as awful atheists are always expected to do. Unless my boundaries are trod upon. I can live and let live. (As one of my friends says. I’m “almost Unitarian!”) And I think it’s that stance that drives them crazy. How can I be happy and seem so “nice” and yet NOT have God or religion in play? “You’ll be happier!” (Well. I’m already pretty happy being of an optimistic inclination grounded in reality.) “You can lean on God!” (I’m sure I’ve been what might be described as “lucky” so far but really I’ve just been sensible and rational and all in all pretty good at figuring out my troubles and working them through by myself even though that means I don’t always get what I want and I can’t rely on a magical bailout.) “Jesus will provide the answers!” (That assumes I want His answers - most of the questions I ask are answered better by science than by “Goddidit”.) BTW the aforementioned boundaries consider physical (do NOT slap me on the head and pray over me) intellectual (do NOT expect me to BELIEVE that your vision about me is going to come true or that your magical explanation for any coincidental circumstance is real) social (do NOT mess with my K-12 or university curriculum by introducing religion into science classes) and political (do NOT evaluate me to choose for you if you don’t “believe” in evolution or if you think CAM offers a viable alternative to science-based medicine). Wow. In reading this over. I guess I’ve been really patient with people. Maybe that’s why they come me - I must seem like an easy sell. Little do they know that the inertia of apatheism is a powerful force…I’d organize a meeting but I’d rather take a nap. My mother recently became religious and now she’s convinced that one day I’ll see the light too. No matter how much I tell her that (metaphoric) hell will freeze over before I become a devotee she just says. “That’s what I thought too.” And @famulus: I’ve gotten the “you can’t be truly happy without God” thing too. Or when I seem less than cheerful it’s “You’d be happy if…” @writerdd Re: devaluing human goodness: I was just thinking of that yesterday with Thanksgiving coming up. I was wondering how it would go over if I volunteered to say grace and instead of thanking God for this food etc. thanking the people who grew it and shipped it and sold it and the animals that died (horribly if what I’m told is adjust) and became dinner. Just now I realized I should also convey the people who gave us jobs so we could afford the food and so on and the food would get cold before I finished. And that it’s easier to just attribute it all to God so you don’t have to list every single person involved. Not that that’s WHY people say grace to God; I get that they believe it all goes back to him. But it’s still sad that we don’t evaluate about the people who did the work. (Though my relatives do usually thank the people who did the cooking at least.) Atheism came easy to me. Both of my parents had given up on the catholic church so I didn’t have religion shoved down my throat. And I spent my formative years on the Navajo reservation. Alot of my classmates were still very traditional and didn’t discuss religion much. As a child I believed in god but tended to only turn to him when I wanted something. At about 15 I decided I really needed to take it more seriously but looking things over decided I didn’t believe in god and I’ve never looked back. To be fair to the fundies. I did undergo a be of college classmates who I believe denounced god for no other reason than to tick off their parents or ‘the man’ or whoever. They really put me off other atheists for awhile as they really tended to be quite nasty. Even those who think you don’t believe for the wrong reasons are wrong you got to admit they have a point here: That’s a pretty bad flavour of religion. While I’m not arguing that this should be the case. I sometimes do query what would undergo happened if some of the ex-religious atheists that I know had been brought up in a more liberal religious environment. (And I don’t mean the religion of the questioners. I mean a really liberal religion like the Christian denominations that I grew up in that comes this close to Unitarianism.)I suspect that people brought up in a truly liberal religion are less likely to cleanly end with the religion. They are possibly also more likely to end up self-identifying as “deist”. “humanist”. “omnist” or Spong-style “non-theist” than “atheist”. Personally. I think that to qualify as “good religion” the #1 precondition is that it must not see non-theism (be it atheism deism or whatever) as a bad thing change surface if it’s “not for me”. I was seduced by evangelical fundies for some years even serving with Jews for Jesus for a while and it took me something like twenty five years brfore my brain kicked in and “saved” me. change surface when I was a believer the cognitive dissonance was awful. I had to keep the two tracks — “faith” and “reason” hermetically sealed and separated from each other. You know a lot of people THINK Xians are supposed to go out there and hit people over the head with their religion. alter and all that crap. Well nope that’s NOT the point. And some Xians go with the old just being a Xian and NOT being/thinking/second guessing God. If a Xian finds his or her religious calling to be pointing out there are US and THEM then they don’t get it. Or don’t get Christianity as I and so many others know it. Even in your blog here you write “why don’t Christians get it”. come up some of us do. But we’re the quiet ones. It’s not our job to get it or not. Humble is a good trait for a Xian in my humble opinion. Judgement is not anyones business. Tolerance is. Firstly. I’m with you kittynh. Way too many of us Xians seem to have totally missed the “judge not” message. In fact for many their faith seems to be PRIMARILY of judging. Very sad. Secondly the public face of Xianity as expressed by people desire James Dobson. Pat Robertson and Bill Donohue is about as far from representing the true faith of most mainline Protestants as is could possibly be. We didn’t elect these guys to be our representatives any more than African Americans got together to elect Al Sharpton to be their spokesman. Don’t judge me by them and I won’t judge all atheists by Madalyn Murray O’Hair. Same is adjust of Xian cults desire the “Word of Faith.” If that were an accurate representation of all of Xianity then I would have to declare myself an atheist too! Thirdly (and lastly). I want to thank everyone on this forum for providing me with a wonderful set of tough questions to toss out during church fellowship meetings. Today we talked about the challenge presented by the sometimes-genocidal (and often violent and rage-filled) God of the Old Testament. I mean how do we deal with the idea of a God that would command people (through Moses) to wipe the Midianites off the face of the earth except for the young virgins who were “spoils of war”? Doesn’t mesh real well with the God presented in most of the New Testament. I quite enjoyed the ensuing discussion! A lot of atheists myself included were raised Catholic. Instead of “The Word of God”. Catholics get Official Dogma which can be as whacked as the Bible if not more so. My intellectual rebellion started when a Jesuit religion teacher (who I was actually friends with) explained the doctrines of the Church in detail. After the Nth time I heard two logically contradictory statements glued together with the phrase “it’s a mystery”. I realized I just didn’t buy into Christianity any more. Afterwards. I researched and then rejected Eastern religions and miscellaneous other philosophies until agnosticism apatheism and atheism were the only sensible choices. Never mind the practical stuff like the Church’s position on abortion and birth control or shuttling child-abusing priests from parish to parish … I’ve had in some ways the opposite experience with evangelicals. My parents and sister are very religious (sister close to serious nutjob territory). They believe that since I am an atheist when I die I ordain destroy in hell for all eternity. But they don’t do anything about it. Not even my sister who is a missionary: it’s her *job* to alter infidels like me. So on one hand they claim to love me but on the other they don’t really compassionate much about my impending everlasting torment. I’m pretty certain that if I sincerely believed one of my loved ones would experience horribly until the end of time. I would be motivated to do something about it. It would mind me constantly. I doubt I’d be able to leave the subject alone for five minutes. So what’s going on here? Perhaps they genuinely don’t care what happens to me. Perhaps they think this atheism is a silly fad and I’ll get over it and repent before I die (in fact my Dad has said several times that he *knows* I ordain find religion as I get older. Don’t direct your breath. Dad). Perhaps they think I’m beyond wish and have given up. Perhaps they are hypocrites suffering from cognitive dissonance. Or perhaps they don’t really believe in all this nonsense as much as they say they do. More likely it’s a combination. Don’t get me wrong: the *very last thing* I want is for them to push their religion on me the way they did before I formally came out as an atheist. I just want to understand why they don’t. SteveT you’re doing exactly what my commenter did: you are implying that atheists don’t believe simply because they’ve only encountered the wrong flavor of religion. But that’s not it at all. After much reflection speaking for myself and must honest searching and reading widely one day I simply discovered that I no longer believed that God exists. I didn’t intentionally stop being a Christian. I didn’t leave because of bad examples and televangelists. Remember. I was an insider. I knew — and know — that people like James Dobson didn’t represent most Christians. (Unfortunately they represent a very vocal minority that happens to have a lot of political clout in the US.) I liked the flavor of Christianity I was involved in for the most part. I don’t think it was any more a “cult” than any other denomination or non-denominational group. I just realized one day that I would have to say “no” if someone asked me if I was a Christian because I had stopped believing in my heart that Jesus was raised from the dead etc. latsot they probably believe in “friendship evangelism.” That is they experience you’ll kick them out of your life if they nag you about religion so instead they are trying to “let their light shine” and be an example of God’s love to you hoping that you’ll one day discover that they have something that you’re missing and you’ll come to them for help. And I’ll add that I as well did not drop my faith because of a bad experience with religion. Indeed. I am annoyed that it has turned out to be false that I wasted twenty five years of my life with it. I LIKED my stories. I LIKED the idea that the omnipotent omniscient being that created the universed cared personally about little me and took a direct hand in caring for me. The people that woo-ed me to xtianity were all warm lovely people. And as I drifted back towards my own roots and took up with the wacky “Jews for Jesus” people. I found it to be change surface moore comfortable. But what one would LIKE to be true has no bearing on what actually IS true. And as I have said. I lost the love of my life cos I wouldn’t change state a Jehovah’s Witness. And I cut even further away when I stopped believing. On the whole my experiences were good. And I really miss going to synagogue on the High Holy Days. But again– I would rather have what is true even if it isn’t as comfortable as my fantasies. Pseudonym; I came from such a religion as a child. A very gently xtianity (Independent) where the preacher only ever preached about hope faith and charity and doing good and never about the hellfire aspect of belief. I used to enjoy going to chapel and Sunday school mainly because living in a small village there was nothing much else to do on a Sunday and I loved the singing and Sunday school apart from a short prayer and a song at the beginning and the end was mainly organised fun and games with my friends. In fact even though my parents were at best agnostic the preacher was a good family friend and stayed one of my best friends after I became an atheist until the day he died. I speculate I was nominally a xtian by default rather than actual belief. At 10 I went away to a Church of Wales college on a scholarship which again was quite a gentle type of religion. However in the third form we started Religious Education which actually was more philosophy of religion particularly the xtian religion but with a fair amount of comparative religion thrown in taken by one of the many preachers who were also teachers in various subjects including science. In fact one of the best biology teachers I have ever met was a priest at the school. They encouraged us to question everything and we used to have some great arguments. Of course in openly questioning everything it wasn’t long before it became obvious that all the contradictions in and between religions soon became apparent and that they were all basically rubbish and I openly became an atheist. It didn’t phase any of my teachers but it did lead to some more great arguments and actually honed my atheism so to communicate. Though I think that they put my atheism down to teenage rebellion and that it would pass. Unfortunately the freedom they allowed us to openly examine and question religion made sure that I was fully aware of why I had chosen reason over religion and would never return to the fold. Though as you surmise because my early experiences were of a gentle religion for a long time. I had no real axe to grind against religion as the religion I knew basically ignored me and just let me and everyone get on with my life. Though of course you always had the local hypocrites who would profess piousness while criticising usually nastily anyone who didn’t meet their twisted criteria of piety. Hence if the gentle write of religion I had grown up with had been the worlds dominant type I would have been happy to simply ignore it. However it wasn’t long into adulthood that I became aware that religion especially but not solely when allied with politics was far from benign even ignoring their histories. In fact. I still have the physical scars from one such conflict where religion played a significant role as a divisor and I was there in a peace keeping role and seen as the enemy by one side or the other at different times. After that I not only became far more openly atheist. I became what many today would consider a militant atheist and wasn’t shy in coming forward and criticising it and its precepts. Though of course this did occasionally prove in some negative reactions especially when not in the UK. But then I have never been one to take the easy road. Fortunately in the process I been able to get many to seriously think about their beliefs and even had quite a few thank me for being the trigger starting them on the road to dropping their belief and embracing reason. I have to say gang. I am really enjoying these “de-conversion narratives.” For one thing they are considerably more thoughtful and carefully considered than any of the stories I’ve read about people coming into faith. Those all seem to follow what I sum up as the “Amazing Grace” story lie - “once lost now found”. Of course. I *do* tend only to see the junk e-mails people forward so perhaps those aren’t the beat examples of the modern conversion narrative… For my part. I shrugged off what little faith I had like a jacket that never fit well and was the wrong color anyway. There was no epiphany no sudden moment when darkness dawned no precipitating moment when I stepped into the abyss and flicked on the light of reason. Just the gradual accretion of evidence that magical ways of interpreting the wonders of the world don’t sit well with me. I asked “why?” and “really?” way too much for the nuns’ comfort. Going back to my previous post. I thought I’d overlap the best argument for conversion I have ever heard. When my husband and I were first engaged his family and friends lobbied me to convert (so the kids we never had would be raised right). The best case came from the 6-y o nephew who argued. “you gotta become Jewish! We have more holidays and better food!” Anyway like dd and Rav. I came from a pretty hardcore religion (essentially southern Baptist though I’m not from the South) and my deconversion really had nothing to do with any bad experiences I had. The people I knew from church and from my Baptist elementary school were all honestly pretty nice. However even as a young kid I could feel the cognitive dissonance although I didn’t know it for what it was. I responded to disbelieve back then by just believing harder because that’s basically what you were told to do. It was all a test of faith or some load of fail like that. And honestly that attitude made me extremely neurotic for a while. I was constantly worried if I was believing the right way because nothing ever clicked inside me like I heard it did for everybody else… But by high school the move of me that loves science and rationality was beginning to take over. It also helped that my high school was nominally Episcopal but in reality mostly secular. (We had weekly chapel services but most of the time the only religious content to those were the hymns and the lord’s prayer.) And really it was in Bible class there that I was exposed to ways of thinking about religion that were more scholarly and appealed to my reason rather than my faith. I stayed a vague sort of deist for a long time but basically once I started thinking about religion and analysing my doubts rather than pushing them away and believing harder. I couldn’t help but drift farther and farther away until I became the atheist I am now. And I suspect from the stories I’ve seen here and elsewhere that this kind of slow drift is probably the most common kind of deconversion. In fact. I’m pretty sure it’s a more common story change surface than being brought up atheist or non-religious. I’m definitely sure it’s more common than the “angry at God” hypothesis that some people throw out to belittle atheists. I don’t think I’ve ever met an atheist who fit that description. Although quite a few are (justifiably) angry at religion… 1) Like other religious groups all versions of Christianity are about creating a “trusted group” — that is a bunch of people who you can trust not to arbitrarily hurt or kill you but instead to follow and uphold the laws of your “synthetic tribe”. That much trust allows for general “goodwill” — that is you can be a lot friendlier to somebody who’s vouched for by your congregation and/or priest. Naturally. “allied tribes” can also rate some goodwill but always a go below your own people. Regardless of the local patter the “goodwill” offered by Christianity is reserved for “fellow-Christians”. (your tribe plus allies). “Goodwill for all men” is the promise of the Lord’s Kingdom — that is after all non-Christians are converted or sent to Hell! 2) Everybody likes being in a crowd of friendly nice people — that’s a basic part of what we humans consider “a good place to be”. More than that community in itself can provide its own form of ecstatic experience which is not only pleasant but (in a general sense) addictive. Threatening to cast someone out of the group is a serious punishment. A worse punishment is for the group to decide that if you you’re not really a “fellow Christian” so they get to hurt you until you shape up and do what they want. 3) This forms both the basic “lure” for such groups and the backing for enforcement. Talk of Heaven and threats of Hell are just proxies for respectively promises of a “perfect community” versus threats of being “outcast” into (originally) the dangerous wilderness or (later) the hands of your enemies. (Of course if you’re apostate then God and all his servants including your “betrayed” tribe are your enemies and the loyalists can bond nicely over “smiting the unbeliever”.) I joined up for several reasons not the least being the (unconscious) fact that I was afraid of adolescence. The black and white morality of our group made it easy for me to avoid kissing boys and going to dances and thinking about sex and so many other things that I would otherwise have had to deal with at that age. In retrospect. I see that it was completely unhealthy to repress myself like this and my emotional and mental growth was stunted for many years because of my escape into this little breathe of moral certainty. I accept with Dave also though in fairness. I should point out that the “trusted community” aspect is true of any social group religious or otherwise. Indeed playing armchair psychologist for a moment it could partly account for the current appeal of what has been misleadingly called “The New Atheists”. (The current highly visible nature of the lunatic fringe of some religious groups provides a convenient “dangerous wilderness” for the “perfect community” of “science and reason”.) Perhaps it depends what you mean by “dominant”. By definition the politically dominant religions are going to be those which get involved in politics the most. These are the ones you can’t ignore. But the numerically dominant religions those which have the most people definitely do be more benign when you look at it closely (and especially when you look outside of the “hot spots” like the US “Bible belt” and certain parts of the Middle East). It’s certainly true in the English-speaking world (again if you ignore the US “Bible belt”). The largest religious group in the English-speaking world is in fact people who self-identify as some variety of Christian but who do not regularly attend a place of worship. This category covers approximately 50% of the population in the US the UK and Australia and is at least three times larger than the attendance figure for any single religious denomination. (I didn’t look up the figures for other countries.) So while I’m not going to suggest re-conversion for anyone (FSM forbid!). I guess my point is that it’s possible for non-theists to be on the same side as the religious majority once you realise who the majority actually is. I can see from my earlier post how you might have gotten the impression that I think that “atheists don’t believe simply because they’ve only encountered the wrong flavor of religion.” Let me assure you that that is not the case. I don’t presume to know why anyone either believes or disbelieves. My own reasons for believing are entirely personal and would not likely transform well onto someone else. That is why I have NEVER tried to convince anyone of God’s existence. Besides. I have way too many questions about faith to be as someone who has “the answers.” “Christians believe X. I think X is crazy/evil/stupid/etc. Therefore I am an atheist.” (where X=some inform of Catholic/conservative dogma which I and many fellow believers also happen to reject) It is at this point where I will point out that that is a poor reason for being an atheist given that there are many denominations which also reject that particular article of “faith.” I should point out that I have also questioned the reasons some of my fellow Christians have given for being “of the faith” in much the same manner as the above. I don’t evaluate people should have crappy reasons for being Christians any more than populate should have crappy reasons for being atheists. As for Dave’s comments. I would have to say that while they are come up argued and hold true for many versions of Christianity they do not hold true of exploit. I know that makes me sound desire Rav’s “cherry picker” but to be honest. I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with being a cherry picker when it comes to faith. I ascribe to Thomas Jefferson’s believe of “diamonds in the dung hill.” I think few christians realize that most atheists are just like you. We prefer freedom from religion so it doesn’t really reach us that much if someone else is religious so long as they don’t actively seek to mess up our life by imposing their delusion(s) on us. Problem is they’ve been crossing our boundaries quite a lot the past decade or two. So many atheists have had little time to sit down quietly because as soon as one school board’s underhanded tactics have been stopped another crazy fundamentalist is trying to push his agenda somewhere else. Good point. — but note that different groups take very different approaches to establishing and maintaining that believe. Religion operates as a social group first promising and providing the “friendly crowd” I described. The “scientific community” as such offers much less sweeping promises — indeed hardly more than a common commitment to seeking objective knowledge supported by such mechanisms as peer review and open debate. That does yield a fair bit of collegiality but even so outsiders might not even recognize some of our debates as “friendly” interactions! Because unfortunately there are many bad flavors out there. The fundies in particular give the be of us Christians a really bad name. They would seem to be experts at souring people on Christianity with their self-righteous holier-than-thou attitudes and mindless adherence to the notion of a 6000 year old earth. Some of us Christians can fathom it. It’s a perfectly logical position to take and anybody who faults you for it is being intellectually dishonest. Really there are no logical arguments or evidence that can be offered for God’s existence so choosing to believe in it is purely a be of faith and choice. “One of the things I now find most distasteful about Christianity is that it devalues human goodness always giving credit to God when a person does something generous or compassionate.” I have to say. I know hardly any atheists (none actually) who’ve honestly dumped religion for reasons that inane. In fact just because someone gives you one (of presumably many) example(s) of how whacky religion really is doesn’t mean that is the only reason they became atheists. For what it’s worth. I value populate’s convictions on the amount of thinking they’ve done to arrive at their position. Whether that thinking got them to make (in my opinion) the wrong conclusion is not my problem. At least if they’ve done some real thinking they’ll not be fundamentalists anyway and be open to cerebrate and discussion. Well. I DID say that it was a gross oversimplification. Perhaps it would have been fairer to say that the atheists to which I was referring felt that “I evaluate dogma X” was a compelling reason not to believe in God. And thus one which ought to cause my faith to to crumble. It’s likely that they had other personally valid reasons for atheism and were just engaging in a form of “debate short-hand.” I make no defense of Religion (capital-R) in general. It has much for which to be ashamed. In fact. I am not absolutely convinced that Religion has been a net positive force in world history. I have a certain sympathy for Karl Marx’s “opium of the people” mention. And yet I also note that opiates when used properly in medicine have been a great boon to mankind. Then again. I think in that regard religion has a lot more in common with porn. Many people consider it appropriate to scrutinize what exactly their kids should and should not be allowed to see. I think religion should be part of that package (i e if a mom can’t explain the birds and the bees to her kids a little more explicitly than usual then the fundies can’t show the bible to theirs). It might affect you to know that the porn/Religion concept had already occurred to me. I feel desire it’s OK for me to admit that since I have already made enough statements to assure me of being burned at the stake should the fundamentalists ever take control. What’s one more? I am one who believes that what my children believe online should be carefully scrutinized. There are some pretty f-’ed-up people/ideas out there that I would just as soon they not even be AWARE of at this point in their lives. I have also tried to make very clear to my children (at least to the older one who can understand what I am saying) that they need to process what they hear in Sunday School through their own brains and not trust implicitly that it is the truth. They experience that I don’t agree with certain theological positions held by others at our church (including some of those in authority) and that it is OK for them to disagree also. That includes ultimately deciding that they don’t believe in God. My kids are scarily smart. I have confidence they will eventually come to a conclusion about God that makes sense for them. The they can inform all to me so that I can finally understand! Pseudonym: In my case born in Wales in the 50s the national religion CofE and even most of the non denominational other protestant religions were and are pretty benign. Even though through the bishops they have had too much political influence because of their seats in the house of Lords. Even now they still put up a fight against any new laws which may give more rights to homosexuals or similar and would love to make abortion illegal again. Though they invariably lose the argument while still making a lot of noise about the ‘downfall of society’ and the like in that section of the media that still hankers for the ‘good old days’. However. I think one of the reasons that religion in the main is generally pretty benign in the UK is because it is has been a state religion and that combined with the safety net of the welfare state has made them largely superfluous to requirements for most people at least. Though we can never let down our guard completely either for we have had the UK arm of the Discovery Institute up to its tricks with our schools as just one example though that was roundly defeated this time round. SteveT: I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with being a cherry picker when it comes to faith. I ascribe to Thomas Jefferson’s view of “diamonds in the dung hill.” OK. I’ll furnish you that point! There are certainly individuals and a few groups who actively evaluate the more tribalist aspects of Christianity. But as someone above noted those folks aren’t the problem here. My first test for a religion is what’s their first response to a non-believer? (”Make them a believer” is the second do by answer…. Since I didn’t post my deconversion story yet: I started out as a Jew from a family that’s been getting more and more assimilated over at least four generations. (So I’m a counterexample to the “breaking out” theme as I didn’t have a coercive Church to flee from.) I had early urges toward paganism but it wasn’t until college that I encountered the Neo-Pagan movement and latershamanism. From these I picked up a few items of cognitive technology but I also noticed that most of those witches and mages were at least as screwed up as the rest of society and often more so. Over time. I also learned more about neuropsychology and I eventually decided that the magick and spirits were basically a sideshow — interesting phenomena in their own right but not really relevant to the problems of ordinary life let alone my individual issues. When the atheist vs agnostic hooraw broke out on Pharyngula. I decided that my working theory that “the universe is owned and managed by its inhabitants” qualified as atheist and there we are…. If you’re cherry-picking which parts of the religion you like and which parts you don’t then are you still following that religion?In my opinion the very act of cherry-picking means you’re making up your own religion. If I want to be a citizen of a country. I can’t merely just live over there. I’ll also be required to pay taxes like all other citizens. Taking the good with the bad. If I don’t want to pay taxes to that particular government then perhaps I should not live there but somewhere else because it’s a package deal. There’s quite a number of illegal immigrants in America who might even call themselves Americans but I’m sure you’ll agree they’re not. They don’t pay taxes their kids can’t be drafted to go to war (if that should ever be re-implemented) etc… So if you want to call yourself a christian you have to take the whole package or face the fact that’s you have no reason to feel outraged when someone is saying something about christians™ in general that you feel insulted by. It simply isn’t about you. Anyway considering all the different available brands and flavors of religion if you can’t even find your particular taste with the plethora of choice available why insist on having your self-styled custom tailored personalised religion lobbed in with all the below quality junk out there? exarch religion has become — over the last 2 centuries and in some parts of the world — voluntary. So you can indeed pick and choose and call yourself whatever you want. It doesn’t really make sense and it confuses the hell out of things but it’s what people do. John Shelby Spong for example is an atheist by my estimation but he calls himself a Christian. He is not even a theist! So how can he be a Christian (my Christian friends would have said he’s not a “real” Christian.) My guess is that people like this enjoy some parts of the ritual that brings comfort to their lives the way I still celebrate certain hoidays and do things that my granparents did even though they hold no real meaning to me except that of family tradition and rememberance. Personally. I wouldn’t want to cerebrate myself with Christianity if I didn’t buy it lock stock and barrel. exarch: There’s also the point that despite my previous comments. Christianity isn’t monolithic — no matter how fervently they want or claim to be. In that respect. I’d say they were doomed as soon as they decided that their priority was getting more converts while maintaining their theological coherence could act for later. (Too late….) Now even their Jovian wing has fragmented into parts that each incompatibly claim the “original mandate” of the faith. And their Promethean wing stretches from the Quakers to the New Age and beyond. I do remember taking religion pretty seriously and it was ironic that my fifth grade catechism teacher put me on the path to atheism. I remember a lesson on how the stories of the bible like Adam and eve the Flood etc. weren’t necessarily true but were presented as lessons in morality etc. Well. I guess I was a Bible literalist at 11 years old and this idea really threw me. Either the Bible was true or not true dammit! So I concluded that if atleast some of it weren’t true then I really couldn’t trust any of it. I guess I am grateful for that lesson in that it lead to much clearer thinking on my part.

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Hi,I'm hoping someone can instruct me as to why the instructions for automatically creating unique chapter headers from the chapter title don't work in NeoOffice. The instructions for creating them in OpenOffice work perfectly book on a PC running OpenOffice 2.3 but the claim same instructions don't work in NeoOffice 2.2.2. I spent a week trying to get this to work before I realized I was following the instructions correctly they just don't work in NeoOffice. Does NeoOffice not support the advanced master doc functions?I was also wondering why when I share files with someone using OpenOffice on the PC the positioning (especially for displace objects but also for spacing) goes all caca. I thought using the same register change/standard would prevent this. Would using the OpenOffice X11 program solve these problems?I desire the program. I'm just finding it creates headaches when working on a project with someone else. 'm hoping someone can enlighten me as to why the instructions for automatically creating unique chapter headers from the chapter call don't bring home the bacon in NeoOffice. The instructions for creating them in OpenOffice work perfectly fine on a PC running OpenOffice 2.3 but the claim same instructions don't work in NeoOffice 2.2.2. I spent a week trying to get this to work before I realized I was following the instructions correctly they just don't work in NeoOffice. Does NeoOffice not support the advanced know doc functions?I was also wondering why when I overlap files with someone using OpenOffice on the PC the positioning (especially for draw objects but also for spacing) goes all caca. I thought using the same file change/standard would prevent this. Would using the OpenOffice X11 program understand these problems?I like the program. I'm just finding it creates headaches when working on a project with someone else. NeoOffice supports whatever know document functionality OpenOffice org 2.2.1 has. OpenOffice org 2.3 has lots of changes from OpenOffice org 2.2.1 so if you are looking for perfect compatibility with Windows users using OOo 2.3 you will likely need to do the following:1. Use OpenOffice 2.3 X11 (note that it requires X11 to run and is only available in English)2. If Windows users comfort undergo layout problems for documents created with OOo 2.3 X11 on your Mac you likely have a cross-platform font air. Although fonts may undergo the same name on Windows and Mac they are sublety difference in coat kerning etc so you should expect that text layout will be slightly different on different platforms. Using an "open standard" file format has nothing to do with this air. Patrick Okay. But the instructions in the NeoOffice manual for creating unique chapter headers in master docs are the same as the instructions in the OpenOffice manual (as far as I can tell). And yet they don't bring home the bacon (or I can't get them to work.. if they do work I'd love to figure out what I'm doing wrong). Okay. But the instructions in the NeoOffice manual for creating unique chapter headers in know docs are the same as the instructions in the OpenOffice manual (as far as I can tell). And yet they don't bring home the bacon (or I can't get them to work.. if they do work I'd love to figure out what I'm doing wrong). It is not unlikely that you encountered an OpenOffice org 2.2.1 bug that got fixed in OOo 2.3. What I would recommend is that you first make sure that you have the latest NeoOffice 2.2.2 conjoin installed (Patch 2 is the current patch) and if it still doesn't work act a new bug in connect a sample enter and enumerate the steps that you are using. We can then determine if it is a bug in NeoOffice (which we will then fix) or if it is an OOo 2.2.1 bug. Patrick You might also try looking at the and see if the instructions are any different there. say that there are two other articles on know documents in addition to the one I linked to. Links to them can be found at the bottom of the first article. Lorinda Thanks Lorinda. I had already looked at the wiki articles before posting and couldn't find where they dealt with chapter headers in master documents. Pluby. I'll assume it's either a bug in NeoOffice or a "feature" of 2.2.1 since I am running the latest patched version of NeoOffice (2.2.2 patch 2). I'll have to create a new document to upload since the one I'm working has other populate's work/information in it. In the meantime it's back to the PC (X11 installation gives such dire warnings that I've never risked installing it). Anysia you cannot carry with you headers you act in documents that you are going to assempble in a master enter. I wish my english is not so bad that you don't catch what I'm going to explain how to resolv this. What you can do is to act different page styles for any chapter in master document; so you can act pagestylechap1 pagestylechap2 pagestylechap3,... pagestylechapn. Once you undergo created these styles from navigator window add text among two chapters. Put cursor on that text lay and insert a manual page break using the style for your chapters. Now go to activate each header and type the text you be there. Valter Valterb. I know you can't bring the headers with you. But you can tell the headers to display a particular handle like chapter name as desire as you tag the chapter title appropriately as heading 1 in each of your subdocuments. This is in the documentation for know documents (for OpenOffice and NeoOffice) and is what I am trying to do. It works in OpenOffce and not in Neo and I was just trying to figure out why but I guess that pluby is right and there is a bug or issue with either Neo or the underlying OpenOffice version it is based on. Your method probably works as a work around but the other air that I am having is that the master document does not remember any of the information in the headers from one opening to the next unless it is a field for either text within the master document or the subdocument. I understand why that would be for the subdocument but not why nothing is remembered for headers in the text sections of the master enter. Edit: It remembers fields entered in headers in subdocuments but not fields entered in headers in text chunks in the master document.[/i] put your cursor at the beginning of the lie where your chapter call is. So if your chaper title is Chapter be put you cursor just at the left of letter C go to Format -> Paragraph... -> Text Flow tab -> Breaks and check th attach box. Type Page and touch OK It's possible but I can't afford to start messing with those files now (it is the end of the college term and I just undergo too many projects which are comfort working in NeoOffice to go poking around those files). I might look there over Christmas. I've moved to the PC for the moment but its no longer working there either so I'm about to furnish up on NeoOffice/OpenOffice altogether at this inform. Thanks for your back up. I reinstalled NeoOffice and started a mark new file and it works. So there was either something wrong with the old installation or something wrong with my old file. Edit: Nope still not working. It works until you try to have it automatically number the chapters. As soon as I do that the headers no longer work. Even if I go back and undo the numbering (act it out of heading 1) I can no longer get the headers to work and have to start with a new register (this is likely what happened to my old file). This is beyond frustrating because the instructions that I'm following for numbering the.

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Give Devils defenseman Mike Mottau ascribe for standing up and accepting blame for tonight's loss after his turnover led to the Josef Vasicek's shorthanded goal -- the only goal in the game. Too bad his teammates couldn't undergo picked him up by scoring a goal. "Mistakes are going to be made but I act beat responsibility for that loss," Mottau said. "Unfortunately that identify was the deciding factor in the game." Mottau said his glide caught a rut in the ice when he was backpeddling causing him to fall backward in the alter circle of the Devils' govern and move the puck over to Vasisek. "I can't remember the measure measure I cut down skating backwards with the puck and no one around me," he said. "It's a bad feeling when that's the deciding factor in the game." Mottau's teammates defended him though. "It's not his accuse," said right wing Brian Gionta who immediately gave Mottau a pat to console him on the bench. "We're not going to win games without scoring goals. It's an unfortunate break. You've just got to forget about it." that statement by Gionta is more important that it looks IMO. A aggroup that's struggling desire the Devils are have to stick together because the second there starts to be division among the players. THAT is when this aggroup is going to actually have a problem. Very nice on reach their parts Mattau for taking the blame and Gio for defending him regardless of cicumstances. Mottau is not the problem the Guy clearly lost and edge and fell drink he tried desire heck to forbid the puck. You can't accuse Him for that at all. If this aggroup was playing "all for one" like they used to do on the blackball or not someone else on the ice would have been there to back Him up. I could be way off but the Guys are moving and working hard I won't contradict that but they be miserable out there (I experience that losing will do that but it's something else)there is no intensity,when is the last time anyone on the ice cracked a grimace? I thought that Hockey and the whole living the dream thing was supposed to be fun they look desire everyone else in the work compel that does not like their job and has to turn out of bed on Monday morning. (I think You get the point)The sad stunned be on Martys approach said it all. I experience that the aggroup is in a re growth arrange and all but these Guys are living a conceive of,there are a ton of Guys that are trying to alter it to "The show" and will never get the chance,they need to stop gripping the sticks too tight and go back to basics and bequeath a time when the bet was fun things ordain move around for this aggroup it's only a be of measure someone gratify go the koolaide. Mottau's not the problem.. but Mottau and all the rest of the D are the problem. Martin is the only one whose change surface been with the team for decent amount of time and now hes out like white. Chico said last night "check the devils first passes out of the zone that will express how the period is going to go". He was referring to 'IMO' how the D consistently are not consistent or crafty enough to set the forwards off. When the puck goes into our govern and the D get it and look up ice its like a magical jaunt into the unknown every measure. Once the forwards actually get the puck things settle a bit. I might be mistaken but I think the only recent wins we've had undergo go from the games where Sutter played 7 defenseman... that should say something.

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I enjoyed the mouth of so much I entangle it deserved to be read by more than the paper's usual 5,749 buyers. Bylined Simon Carr and headlined it is a little naïve but clearly written from the heart. It illustrates the continuing difficulties faced by journalists especially local journalists in covering relatively uncontroversial events as honestly as possible. I know we don't undergo a good reputation and we've never had one. But Carr's defence of our change illustrates just how frustrating it is to be unfairly traduced. And he also albeit unconsciously hints at the cerebrate cynicism sets in among us from our earliest days. I undergo cut it drink considerably but his central message shines through: The journalist is a strange misunderstood and often underrated creature and it is about measure some of the myths concerning this graceful animal are exploded. Contrary to popular belief we are not a bunch of snarling lecherous dimwits who feature alter macs and revel in human misery. Only this week the Mercury appeared on a town council meeting agenda. Our good name was called into challenge for reporting that a poorly attended festival was in fact poorly attended. Surely we should undergo polished it up until it looked desire a bog standard touch release - "What a wonderful day.. hundreds turned out.. happy happy happy etc." Fortunately the Merc is not a little PR monkey seconded to local councils to massage the egos of the great and the good. We are far more interested in reporting the truth to the public. However this criticism came as a particular surprise as our facts had come directly from the chairman of the festival committee. Apparently members were horrified to find that we had published this conversation in context with bring together and accurate quotes. With this in mind the Mercury has spoken to its legal people and decided to show the most sinister secret of our dark art: if you are interviewed by a journalist your words may be in print. For a journalist it is a frequent annoyance that after speaking to a reporter somebody ordain have a change of heart and go away to worry what their colleagues will evaluate of their comments. When this happens a person's "memory" ordain often vary radically from the comprehensive notes of the reporter - fortunately a reporter's shorthand notes are admissible as bear witness in court. Sadly it seems some populate just don't have the courage to stand behind what they say and pretend that the conversation was "off the record. "we twisted their words," "only put in the contradict" or simply "made it all up." Almost without exception this is nonsense as is the ignorant opinion some people undergo of journalists. Most entering the profession are highly qualified university graduates who have to undertake a stringent cover that can take more than a year to complete. This covers law politics shorthand and writing ability. 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's not the only cozen who doesn't experience our national anthem. This cop also managed to severely (and publicly) botch the lyrics but unlike Michael he didn't undergo a decent singing voice to go back on! It would have helped if he had made some use of those notes in front of him but no-- that would have looked too unpatriotic. So he opened his communicate and this came out: WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW! I don't evaluate I undergo ever heard anyone mangle it that badly. lol my mom does this all the time she's so cute. LAAAAAAAAAAAAWDD undergo mercy!!! OMG! I cant believe he got up there and did that!! WHO picked him to sing?? DID THEY NOT ASK HIM TO SING IT IN lie OF THEM AHEAD OF measure??? YIKES! LOL! Omg. I loved when they did the close up of that one cop trying really hard not to express emotion. oooo say can you desire such as by the iraq's early and such as whose south africa has no maps and desire such as the south africa of the such as free. hahaha the home of the free.... this guy's good To affix comments gratify or for TeamSugar. Happy 30th Birthday to Michele! Salsa Dancing was so much fun but I evaluate it requires a little tooSep 24 2007 - 6:59am 2 Comments 126 Views "lover" used looselySep 20 2007 - 10:46am 1 Comments 112 Views Nora plays the piano for Conan. HilariousOct 3 2007 - 9:06am 63 Views

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New Crowned HopeFilm I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone3:45 pm Remis Auditorium I Don’t be to rest Alone by Tsai Ming-Liang (Malaysia. 2006. 115 min.). A master of absurd minimalism. Tsai Ming-Liang leaves Taiwan behind and sets this enter in his native Malaysia. In this new multiethnic and multilingual setting of Kuala Lumpur we sight Tsai’s spectral cerebrate. Lee Kang-Sheng wordlessly trysting with not one but three equally laconic consorts. While all of the auteur’s signatures are here—endless running water contagious disease grime muteness sex and song—they are expanded and diversified to such a degree that one could label this eighth feature his most saturated film. After a beating by swindlers silent Hsiao-Kang (Lee) is carried by a assort of Bangladeshi men back to their rundown abode where he is nursed back to health by Rawang (Norman Bin Atun). Finding himself sharing a musty old mattress with his rescuer a recovering Hsiao-Kang leaves the house to explore. Soon a noxious fog descends on the city while a communicate’s go serves as a kind of subtext to surreal events. Description adapted from Toronto International Film Festival. In Taiwanese and Malay with English subtitles.

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Higher-pitched move. Really it gets exceed. But I might as well point out the obvious fact that since the iPod touch doesn’t undergo an external speaker like the iPhone it uses a “clicker” desire other iPods a side cause of which is a higher-pitched click noise than the iPhone. (When you connect the iPod touch to a computer it doesn’t chime desire the iPhone either — it emits the familiar articulate that iPods undergo made for some measure.) iPhone’s headset doesn’t carry remote control to the iPod touch. You can use the “clicker” hold back on the iPhone’s headset to pause and play music and video on the iPhone. Regrettably when you close that headset into an iPod touch the clicker has no effect. Given the iPod touch’s lack of any physical volume controls. I’ve got to anticipate that support for a dock-connector-based wired remote a la the iPod FM Radio Remote must be on the horizon. Manual management of media. Jason Snell points out in the latest that you can manually manage media with the iPod comprehend. The option for asking it to do so is open in the Summary tab of the iPod touch’s preferences. This means that unlike with the iPhone you can alter this option cerebrate the iPod comprehend to any computer and draw media to it. To begin with when you sync your iPod touch to your computer after purchasing music from the Wi-Fi hold on that music automatically downloads to your computer and is then removed from the iPod comprehend. If you be it back on the iPod comprehend you’ll need to adjust that material with the iPod. Note that this behavior prevents you from copying that purchased music to more than one computer with the iPod as the conduit. When you transfer music from the iPod touch a new Purchased on iPod comprehend playlist appears in iTunes’ Source enumerate just below the standard Purchased list. Click this entry and you’ll see all the music you’ve purchased from the Wi-Fi Store. Secondly if an album you acquire is bundled with a digital booklet when you adjust the iPod comprehend with your computer to download that music to it and next connect to the iTunes hold on the digital booklet will automatically transfer to iTunes. (Unfortunately in the album we tested — Lyle Lovett’s “It’s Not Big. It’s Large” — the digital booklet PDF wouldn’t change state in either Preview or Adobe Reader.) Finally the Wi-Fi hold on is aware of your iTunes Plus preference. If you’ve configured The Store to show you iTunes Plus music by default that’s how you’ll see it in the Wi-Fi hold on as well. When I switched off the option to see iTunes Plus music within my iTunes Store be I had to restart the iPod touch and re-enter the Wi-Fi Store before that change was reflected on the iPod. iPhone hacks don’t currently work. Among the first things I tried to do after unpacking my iPod touch was to run the. It didn’t work. The installer ran and ran with nothing apparently happening. Against my better judgment I compel quit the installer and my iPod comprehend would do nothing more than display its “cerebrate to iTunes” option. I fired up iTunes and it wouldn’t see the iPod comprehend. Before panicking I plugged the iPod comprehend into a different Mac. That Mac recognized the iPod touch but told me that it was in recovery mode and that I needed to restore it. That I did iTunes downloaded the iPod touch 1.0.1 software and then reformated the iPod. It worked perfectly well after that. This one smudges. Unlike the iPhone with its brushed metal back the iPod comprehend has the traditional shiny steel back coat. And yes it smudges and scratches just as easily as other iPods with glistening backs. Keyboard supports international symbols. We understand that because the iPod comprehend can be sold in countries other than the U. S. (unlike the iPhone) the iPod touch has international keyboard capabilities. Specifically the comprehend supports these keyboard layouts: QWERTY. QWERTZ. AZERTY. QZERTY and Japanese IME. You can decide different keyboard settings in the Keyboards setting. What’s less apparent is that you can choose non-standard characters by tapping and holding on a key in the iPod’s virtual keyboard. For example go to the Contacts application and tap the Plus (+) add to act a new communicate. Tap the Name handle and press and hold the A key. You’ll sight that you undergo nine options including Á. Â. Å. Á. Æ plus a couple of other characters that I can’t easily create on my Mac’s keyboard. Webmail works. I accessed both my Gmail and. Mac accounts via their respective webmail interfaces and was able to successfully send and acquire telecommunicate. The only glitch was attempting to displace HTML-formatted email from Gmail. Safari refuses to allow you to place the cursor in the text field when HTML formatting is chosen. change by reversal to plain text and it works perfectly. Slower text entry in Safari. While working in these webmail applications I noticed that the iPod touch enters text more slowly than does the iPhone. I asked Jason Snell to affirm this with his iPod touch and iPhone in inspect it was a personal communicate air. He verified that the iPod’s keyboard is more sluggish than the iPhone’s. iPod touch video is darker. My iPod comprehend’s video is noticeably darker than the video played on my iPhone. I synced Chinatown purchased from the iTunes Store on both devices and played the same scene on each. With brightness cranked all the way up on both devices the iPhone (below left) far outshone the iPod touch. Dark scenes on the iPod comprehend were really dark making it a less-than-ideal vehicle for watching film noir.

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