Atheists - An Increasingly Outspoken Minority

This story aired on February 17, 2008. RAFT was briefly mentioned.

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[austincmcm]

In a moment of crisis, I solve it myself instead of praying for my invisible friend named god to give me a miracle, maybe sometimes ill turn to my loving family for help instead of again praying for my invisible friend to save me.

[sol3a1]

Where do I place my hope and "faith" in a time of need?

In the search and rescue people who compare what was there and now isn't and directs teams to go search in an area

In the guy who picks up a shovel and starts to dig me out of the mudslide

In the EMT who comes to treat me, my wife, my kids and all my neighbors with first emergency response aid

That is where my hope and "faith" comes in. I'd rather see 2 hands working than a 1000 hands praying as the working hands are really doing something

[aussiesam01]

this TV crew makes a refreshing change from Faux Nooz

[TheAtheistSocialist]

Why are we more outspoken now? huh let me think, because the church can't BURN US ALIVE like they used to (not that our atheist ancestors didn't stand up, but many stayed hidden). Religion's time is over and it is the obligation of all good moral people to dig the whole for this wretched metal illness from our primitive scientifically dark ages to lay dead in.

[apeswithhobbies]

Astonishing that in a highly technological society in the 21st century, not believing in a god or gods is considered newsworthy.

[skywize]

@rpsmith014 On occasion? Lucky bastard. lol

[rpsmith014]

@skywize haha It's cool. Happens to me on occasion. 

[skywize]

@rpsmith014 I'm a moron. Sorry, lmao!! In my defense, I was minutes from going to sleep.

[rpsmith014]

@skywize Somebody forgot to turn on their sarcasm detector when they woke up today. XD

[skywize]

@rpsmith014 they... is? sorry, but it irks me, lol. Kidding aside, not believing in a god tends to forgo believing in a devil. Since, no devil has been created outside of a religion, you must believe in a god first. Atheists believe in neither since there is no reason to.

[skywize]

@NYerintransit It's true. Most believers think we worship devils, or simply hate whatever god the believer worships. Also, most think that without their god's commandments, a nonbeliever could never be moral. Morality, I have found, does not come from gods, but ourselves. Seeing someone suffer makes me want to help them. I was not told to by one of the gods, it is simply in our nature.

[skywize]

"Where do you place your trust in time of need?" -Well, personally, I put my trust in my loved ones. My friends and my family are pretty much all I need.