So, just what are we talking about?

[Leah_heartsword]

But Atheism is somewhat similar to religion insofar as it is a Statement of (non) belief.  

One who practices a Faith believes that "X" is true, based on (Fill in your core tenets of a belief here.)  Add such evidence as the Faith provides.

The Atheist states or believes, typically after using reasoning, that "X" is untrue, or that "X" (no God and no gods) are true based on (fill in the logic here.)   Add such evidence and reasoning as applies to the case in question.

The Agnostic, which I think I am closest to, can state "I don't know, yet.  I do not accpet that I have to take a stand, and believe that "it" may be a "third thing" that is neither God nor the absence thereof." 

Neither face of this two sided coin has convinced me, yet and I am willing to learn, to wait for other evidence.  I can live with that idea that the evidence may not arrive in my lifetime.  So be it, humanly generated electricity did not arrive in time for the Plymouth Colony either, (all old Egyptian Batteries notwithstanding) but it showed up eventually in New England and made Thomas Edison famous, then later allowed the on-off switch to be refined into the computer upon which I type this missive.

--Occhi

Here! Here!

But really, I'm am atheist and i do not, and I quote, "dismiss multiculturally held beliefs in something beyond observable nature (eg. a spirit, a soul, or a deity) {Kandrathe}," instead I believe that there might have been a person born in a manger whose name was Jesus and died on a cross, but I do not believe that he "walked on water" or any of the sort that is stated in The Bible. But, there is always a but, remember I am not even fifteen. If the Rapture, the return of Mahammad, Budda's revivel, or the coming of any diety, does come, then I will accept the spirit part of the religion.

On another note, who in the Nine Hells of the realms wants to see there god tortured and killed?!? :blink:
Not me for certain. If it were up to me, and if I was religious, I would of left the whole story in the bible for reading and not on a screen for seeing. In the human brain the most sensitive sense of emotion is the sense of sight. So to see the sight of the thing that was god in your image, up on a 30 foot screen, getting his guts removed, would be so revolting and so emotionly diswrought that I would live in a world of depression and paranoia afterwards.

Please excuse my ranting :unsure:

Best words,
Leah

EDIT: Oh yeah I almost forgot. Here are some famous words from a Famous Atheist turned Christian, "How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different the saints."- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, writer of the most glorious Chronicals of Narnia.