High help: Is it me, or is there a disportionatly high amount of athiests/agnostics here? - Help.com

its because all the bible thumpers here have converted us

there are agnostics/athiests here

Maybe athiests just need more help because there is no faith in a higher plan?

=) who knows im a heathen myself so i cant talk lol

yes, and they all think the mod’s and admin’s are satan after they warn them

are you dunce?

Maybe there is a proportionate amount here, religions in my opinion are slowly dieying out in the face of logic.

well if there turns out to be a hell, i guess we can all discuss it there

The Bible speaks of a great falling away. Maybe we are experiencing that right now. If you listen to most of the ones here that call themselves atheists or agnostics they have alot of Bible knowledge. Where’d it come from?

au contraire, ive found far far more religious people to be here than I do in my everyday life.

and scatt, my biblical knowledge came from personal study. personal interest i guess

scatt4ever wrote:
The Bible speaks of a great falling away. Maybe we are experiencing that right now. If you listen to most of the ones here that call themselves atheists or agnostics they have alot of Bible knowledge. Where’d it come from?

because some people study all religions before picking one if any in the end they believe it to be a bunch of crap and a entertaining Read

scatt4ever wrote:
The Bible speaks of a great falling away. Maybe we are experiencing that right now. If you listen to most of the ones here that call themselves atheists or agnostics they have alot of Bible knowledge. Where’d it come from?

Because WE actually read the d*mn thing. If you read it from a neutral percpective, you’re going to either believe it’s false, or not care.

Disproportionate to what?

It does not seem that way to me. Religious evangelizing is, strictly speaking, against the sites Terms Of Service. Simply being an atheist is not, so perhaps they are simply more wont to talk about it. If you’d like to talk Bible, though, there a quite a few users who will no doubt be willing to discuss the matter with you.

Perhaps we just have a higher percentage of people who like actively helping people over giving a minimal tithe every week.

I wasn’t suggesting you did. I was merely saying that IF a person wanted to, they would likely find no such shortage of opportunities on Help.com.

There always has to be a balance. You’ll find more of us actually like to help people with practical and plausible methods apart from just “praying” for everyone.

(Atheist here).

This is just a suspicion, but I feel as though atheists is largely produced by the Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief system. Buddhists already believe that nothing exists, though I don’t think the western understanding of “athiest” applies to them. Hindus seem to place a lot of emphasis on the principles of reincarnation and karma so, while the faith is henotheistic, one may ultimately find several aspects on which to agree or depart. Taoism reads existence and the continual balancing of natural forces, none of which are really any more or less divine than the human dynamic that creates them - although perhaps ultimately more important than it. That being said, perhaps it is simply strict monotheism that leads to atheism? I really don’t know, but I don’t find many Buddhists or Hindus expressing their dissatisfaction with a state of faith.

If you mean disproportionate to the apparent number of athiests/agnostics in the bible thumping parts of the U.S. you may be right. Some possible reasons are it is hard to post B.S. and not get called on it. Also even in the most religious places there are probably more athiests and agnostics than you think. You may even go to church with them. They for whatever reason don’t see it as of benefit to publicly display their atheism. On the internet you can be publicly anonymous, and get out some of the things that you may feel intimidated from saying in public.

In the real world you probably don’t know what most of your peers believe. Aside from Richard Dawkins, and a select few others, atheists do not go around espousing their beliefs trying to get everyone else to agree with them. I for one think that freedom to practice religion is necessary for a society which is free and open enough to tolerate freedom of thought and speech.