Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "Lebanon's atheists on losing their religion - BBC News" video.

  1. Well, I rather believe there is no God than there is an infinitely powerful being, that has to "communicate" with us through books and select people as "messengers" and is obsessed with our behaviour and write laws that do not fit our time and society we are in...
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  2. Do they? Never seen this happening. I myself have no hair
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  3. Where did your creator come from then?
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  4. It definitely makes more sense than "invisible sky daddy created everything..."
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  5. Can’t really change your name. Not that I would want to, it is the name my loving parents gave me
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  6.  @talon9639  So he is the exception… If we have to make exceptions to allow God to exist why must there be a creator in the first place?
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  7.  @talon9639  So where does God come from?
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  8. Atheism isn't a religion.
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  9. Why would I ever conscribe to a caliphate? I am not religious, I don't want to live in a medieval autocracy made upon strict religious beliefs I never subscribed too. At least with modern laws everyone can live according to their morals as long as they don't infringe the rights of others. Live religiously if you want but don't force your morals or religion on me.
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  10. What’s wrong with Thailand
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  11.  @عاشقرسولصلىاللهعليهوسلم-ض7ص  Stay low. Hopefully more and more people like you can force a change through numbers.
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  12.  @okiamyacine664  Evolution itself does not criticise religion. But religions typically disavow evolution since evolution contradicts their creation stories. In many religious nations, evolution isn't taught and in others, there is a huge row between scientists and religious people over it. Evolution theory is more sound and proven than "invisible sky daddy creating everything". Zakir Naik "knowledgable"?
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  13. So many face pressures. Ask them.
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  14. That would be great - we will all have a stable working society and the religious nutters may kill themselves...
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  15.  @MrChickenstalker  The sheer arrogance of you to write that he "was never a practising muslim to begin with". How can you judge? And if the religion is so hard to comprehend, God should probably have done something about it... Atheists do not know where the universe came from. Theists like you attribute it to a God, but where did God came from? So basically you move the problem up to God... You are the one that sounds obnoxious.
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  16.  @KhalilSonic  That theory has not been proven wrong lol...
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  17.  @KhalilSonic  Is has not. The current consensus by science is that evolution is what happened and still happens. But that’s the nice thing. We don’t go and punish the apostates now
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  18.  @ertorolrahmadow95  Actually converts are a minuscule portion of every religion. Islam solely grows because of higher than average global birth rates. And obviously, many muslim countries make census and other ways to gather statistical evidence to find out about faiths in their country impossible. In Turkey, if you aren't a designated religion, you are automatically Muslim. A Malaysian Malay must be Muslim. He cannot convert legally. An atheist in Saudi Arabia risks death penalty. So do Apostates in Iran. So there is very little data that could actually be used to model how many Muslims there are.
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  19. I actually don't mind the concept of a God. I mind the concept of a god that is absent but speaks to select people and his primary way of communication with us is through books... I am an agnostic. But I am against the concept of man-made religions.
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  20.  @setogembot  it’s just such a weird argument. Science is wrong because we don’t know the origins of the big bang. But God must be real because a book says so. Where does God originate from? Unclear - he ks just there. Because we need a God because nothing can’t come from nothing but God… The logical fallacy
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  21. Freshwater and saltwater do mix. There is no barrier...
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  22. I don't believe in a God but still lead a good life. I help people and don't do crimes. Do I deserve to be punished for my lack of faith?
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  23. Many people lost their faith during wars.... By the way, who created God? If everyone needs a creator, God needs one too. Or is he exempted from the rule? Now that is a very dishonest argument.
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  24. Do you have any proof for this concept? Because so far I have not seen any proof with this concept.
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  25.  @KhalilSonic  He left the faith not because of the cartoon but because of the extreme reaction to it...
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  26.  @ambored2967  Yeah sure, it must be all non muslims... Non Muslims forced you to attack until Vienna...
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  27. Many muslims already do that... Plus, I love how butthurt you sound.
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  28.  @user-jp3tp7fv1s  Or Hindu, Jew, Taoist...
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  29.  @muhammadanas3398  Actually, there are many older religions that I would also consider a rouse...
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  30. He literally said that he read the bible.
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  31. You may not but many do
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  32.  @MuhammadHussain-bw7to Yeah sure... At least I won't rot in hell because Jesus died for my sins...
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  33.  @MuhammadHussain-bw7to  Nah, who cares what your religion says. Mine is right…
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  34. Hello Do you mind me asking whether this is becoming more common
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  35.  @Amo2822  Thanks for answering me. Would you say Saudis in our Generation Y / Z age group are much more liberal than the official Saudi state?
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  36.  @khilafahforummah3322  There is literally nothing that proves there is something after death... And if this world is our only life, why not enjoy it? And even if a God created this world, why live for the death?
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  37.  @khilafahforummah3322  Nah, a lot of the freedoms are very highly restrictive. Just looking at some contemporary nations that ban, hinder, censor a lot of activities that they deem against XYZ. Making people behave in a certain way when they aren’t harming anyone is definitely not freedom. Why are we here? I don’t know. I just don’t think that we are here to worship a deity that created everything yet wants us to worship him like a narcissist. This approach just doesn’t fly with me. I find it absurd. We are judged by our actions on earth… there are laws and everything; if even Islamists feel the need for human law enforcement … why not leave it to the creator then? Why would cut allow those criminals to cut the life of innocents? Those are just some basic problems I have with the concept of deity. Why is punishment delayed to when we can’t observe it? Anyway, I don’t mind your faith as long as you don’t try to impose it on me or your rules on society.
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  38. Greetings back from Europe
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  39. Do the mass media from Arab states sing the praises about the good work atheists are doing?
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  40.  @alfonso201  They are like 10% soon. By 2050 it could be 20%. Hopefully they also loose their religion with us.
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  41. I'd recommend you to wait a bit longer to tell them. In case they react badly, you should want to be able to fend for yourself alone. Many muslim parents react very extreme and you may loose your safety net.
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  42. Agree. Live and let live. Don't force your religious teachings on me and I won't do it for you.
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  43. You can have a community for anything. In this case, this is more of a support group. It isn't easy to be an atheist in this region, not even in Lebanon. We don't know the origin of life or what happens after death. All I know is that we didn't get the explanation from some guy with dreams...
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  44. If I look at the state of the world, I see very many people missing out of this mercy.
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  45. 1. Most atheists remain closeted because people will harm them. They may lose friends, their jobs... So no riches to them and negative fame. 2. So the only reason you don't rape your mother is because of religion? If you didn't have a threat of religion over you, you would be a beast? Well, I am not a beast. You can be a moral atheist too. 3. All humans are animals.... 4. Nobody can see fear or regrets. 5. They left their religion because it didn't give them peace of mind or a multitude of reasons. Ask them before just spewing some butthurt propaganda.
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  46.  @prashantvicky  His faith is very weak - he must force others to stay faithful himself.
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  47. You can't force believe. You can force pretense but I simply don't believe.
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  48.  @ambored2967  Well, OP did kinda hate upon him
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  49. Atheism means that we don't believe in God. We aren't hedonists. I have seen hedonist muslims... (Now I wait for you to declare them non-muslim)
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  50. Same reasoning here. Plus, would I follow a God that is so vengeful that he can't forgive me not believing but has no problems with radical terrorists killing innocents in the name of his religion? No, hell no.
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  51. OTOH, Muslims should not threaten atheists or try to silence them with blasphemy laws or subject them to their religious practises (like fasting). If you wanna fast, do it, I don't care but you have no right to force me to stick with it too.
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  52.  @xanax9  And your parents named you Xanax...
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  53. I am not sure whether eternal life is all that rewarding... Why would an all powerful being depend on human worship for his ego? By the way, how does God come out from nothing.
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  54. Why must it be single? What is rational about this?
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  55. Probably ignore it. I would definitely not run and a) try to boycott an entire country and b) make death threats.
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  56. Idk what the purpose is. I certainly believe that we aren't here to worship 24/7 and live a life without fun. We can definitely look at examples from Muslim genocide onto other faiths, outside of Indonesia. BTW, you guys force non-muslims to wear hijab for example.
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  57.  @shembeliever6095  You do understand that it is pretty insulting for him too to hear day in day out that they are nonbelievers and suffer in hell? A mother that prays for her son and tells him that every time doesn't respect him either.
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  58.  @shembeliever6095  See? You don’t respect us….
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  59.  @shembeliever6095  If you do it in private, I have no problem with it. But being permanently told that One prays for me is kinda disrespectful to tell me. No offence. But you would probably feel insulted when I would just say „May intelligence free you“ wouldn’t you?
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  60.  @shembeliever6095  I am not arrogant lol. I merely question writings in a book which are not proven to be from a God. If God wants me to believe in him, he oughta send me more than the word of a guy dead for 1400 years and a book…
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  61. Hitler wasn't an atheist...
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  62. As long as you don't force your religion on us and don't want to put your laws and morals on us, this is fine with me.
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  63. Sure, lets apply this to religions too. Religions shouldn't make claims about origin and proselysing should be forbidden. Let people discover faith. Don't rope kids into it.
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  64. And who formed God? How can God be there and form "from nothing"? And sperm doesn't built anything. It merely supplies the genetic information to complete the set. We also know how organogenesis works. Any medical student could tell you in detail how this works.
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  65. But ex-muslim precisely means that.
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  66. Actually Alcohol is not originating in the west...
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  67.  @bilalhamurabi3362  Not really. People bought illegal alcohol that was often contaminated with methanol. And it strengthened criminal enterprises. Educate people about it. Alcohol within the limits doesn’t do lots of harm. Smoking (very common in the middle east) is worse.
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  68.  @Nevermind952  Maybe he has done all of this? Now what?
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  69. Why would he test small children?
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  70.  @Alex-lw3yk  My teacher never beat me… Anyway, I don’t belief life is a test and that I need to pass it. I also don’t believe that the test guidelines can be found in books „given“ to men. Anyway, what kind of God tests small children who are dying from disease, hunger or war? Does he kill them to test their parents? That would be a very cruel God…
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  71. It didn't take the world hundreds of years to understand Shakespear... Hitler wasn't an atheist. Zakir Naik spreads hate to others... The Quran doesn't tell you - you are projecting our gathered knowledge onto it. The process of the big bang can only be seen with a very, very, very liberal interpretation of a very vaguely written Surah. The Quran gets Spermatogenesis and Embryogenesis wrong. Life coming from water is something we knew way before there was Islam. There is a reason why there are so many water gods. There are many fabled stories about water way older than Islam. Earth isn't egg shaped. At least not like a chicken egg. (We also knew it was a sphere centuries earlier thanks to some smart greeks that used their heads). The early scientists were living in a muslim dominated world but many were not muslims. And there have been very, very, little contributions to science over the past centuries from muslims.
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  72. Maybe we also land in Valhalla.
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  73. 1. People will do drugs. It is a coping mechanism. At least nowadays we don't punish them but try to help. 2. I see how many people still die from religious practise. 3. We shan't insult your religion, neither shall you make laws for us, laws on us and persecute us like you guys do currently. Atheism is a terror charge in Saudi Arabia. Is that acceptable? You can protest et cetera but you have no right to punish us for freedom of speech, nor can you make threats. Or even murder us. Atheists use words. You guys use weapons...
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  74.  @persianpwerful  Do you think this will change in the future?
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  75.  @persianpwerful  But you guys lack water, am I right? How religious are Iranians? (Thank you for replying btw)
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  76.  @afrozakhatun17afrozakhatun97  Quran never said universe is expanding. I know the verse you mean, you really need to very liberally interpret this into the expansion of the universe...
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  77.  @dilz2467  Do you think there will be more people like you in the near future? People that wake up to clerical brainwashing?
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  78.  @dilz2467  Thank you for replying. I certainly hope so that dome sort of secularism and freedom will come to Lebanon. You need a better system.
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  79. He possibly did read...
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  80.  @منتصبالقامةأمشي-ص7ت  Not much better. Some guy in a desert has a dream and somehow this is the final prophet who will never, never be followed by another messenger?
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  81. The outcry from atheist, secular countries is louder than from Muslim countries lol
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