Religião é Veneno. Fórum de discussão de assuntos relevantes para o ateísmo, agnosticismo, humanismo e ceticismo. Defesa da razão e do Método Científico.
Fórum de discussão de assuntos relevantes para o ateísmo, agnosticismo, humanismo e ceticismo. Defesa da razão e do Método Científico. Combate ao fanatismo e ao fundamentalismo religioso.
American atheists are holding a “Coming Out Party” in Westerville, Ohio, this Saturday in a bid to encourage non-believers to publicly declare their conviction that God does not exist.Frank Zindler, president of American Atheists, told me many U.S. atheists felt marginalized in a country where levels of religious belief are high and that the social and family pressures to profess a spiritual faith were huge.”I get an enormous amount of e-mails on our Web site from young people asking me ‘how do I tell my parents?’ It causes a great deal of anguish,” he said.
Saturday’s events will include a “De-Baptism” ceremony, which organizers say “will be a fun way for people who feel under pressure to conform to religious orthodoxy to make a statement about their newfound intellectual independence.”
According to a comprehensive nationwide survey conducted last year by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, only 1.6 percent of U.S. adults identified themselves as atheists, while 2.4 percent said they were agnostic, or do not know if God exists.Just over 12 percent of adults surveyed said they “were nothing in particular” and atheist activists believe many fellow non-believers are in this group.
They also maintain that many Americans who claim a religious affiliation are in fact secret atheists.”I think there are a lot of people who may say that they are religious, who in fact are not,” said Ashley Paramore, a board member with the Secular Student Alliance, who is organizing Saturday’s event. What do you think? Do you think there are lots of “closet atheists” in America? And are Americans under pressure to profess a belief in God? Or are these pressures minimal and complaints on this score overblown?
Tô pensando em mandar uma carta para o Vaticano xingando o papa e pedindo minha excomunhão
Aqui no fórum o cara já fez isso, mas pediu ao padre da paróquia dele, e o pedido foi aceito.
Quando vejo um religioso protestando, irritado, exigindo respeito às suas crenças idiotas, penso logo...BOM SINAL! Sinal de que alguém esta fazendo alguma coisa certa.
Na verdade você está certa, quando vamos fazer uma reclamação não da pra conversar com funcionário de baixo escalão, melhor é falar com o "dono da boca"!
Quando vejo um religioso protestando, irritado, exigindo respeito às suas crenças idiotas, penso logo...BOM SINAL! Sinal de que alguém esta fazendo alguma coisa certa.
