[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

You seem to need some kind of proof before you will believe I dont and never have as I have faith.

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Yes, I need evidence before I believe things. It's just the way I am hard-wired. Faith is not a virtue...it is an excuse we give for believing things without a valid reason.

If your beliefs cannot stand scrutiny, why present them? Doesn't this tell you something?

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I call upon my fellow atheist brethren to stand tall and be counted. We are vilified by the masses and seen as people who have had something go wrong in our lives to disbelieve in a deity. This is just not true...we are decent folks who simply cannot believe things for which there is no evidence.

If your neighbors and friends already know you to be a good person, and then learn you are an atheist, they will be compelled to rethink the lies they have been dictated from the pulpit about us. We are the future...we are the inevitable...and until we come out of the closet, we will be hidden.

So, I call upon those who require evidence before belief, to state as much and be heard.