All कुत्ता Go To Heaven...

I'm not sure whether to tell आप my emidiate feeling when I meet an Athiest, because it's probably the most patronising, horrible thing for me to feel in their eyes, but I honestly can't help how I feel. Please don't kill me, because I AM awear that the stuff I say can sound patronising, I just don't know how else to say it... If I ask आप for one thing it's that आप DON'T read this trying to look for an argument, या for fault, या to oppose it completely - but that आप have an open mind.

I don't want to convert you. आप have free will for a reason and you've chosen not to believe - but I want...

A few weeks पूर्व at my workplace I was approached द्वारा a very visible, though homeless, religious man. He asked me if I were religious in which I replied with a nonchalant "No."

From there it seemed as if all hell was breaking loose. He started badgering me and saying that because I was baptized as a small child I'm ultimately "damned to Hell" for my "families mistakes".

Perhaps I should have just upped and walked away.. but for one, I was never in this particular situation, and since he was a paying customer, I sort of felt compelled to put up with his bullshit because I didn't want him to cause...

I found this on a blog site called link and thought it might be good for us to share some of our thoughts about Atheism! आप can answer some, all, या none of the questions. Feel free to either leave your जवाब in a टिप्पणी दे या आप could set up your own soapbox लेख with your answers.


Q1. How would आप define “atheism”?



Q2. Was your upbringing religious? If so, what tradition?



Q3. How would आप describe “Intelligent Design”, using only one word?



Q4. What scientific endeavour really excites you?



Q5. If आप could change one thing about the “atheist community”, what would it be and...