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The agnostic experience in America really is just being condescended to by Christians all the time. ‘Oh you’re unsure? Well I know the truth for a fact and I can help you’ like no dude, I’m not a Christian purely because I do understand your religion
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Anonymous 15h

No you don’t get it only my specific interpretation of this specific Bronze Age book explains everything we don’t know about the universe

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Anonymous 15h

Being atheist is being condescended by everyone. Not to whine about it, but man, “are you sure you don’t see or feel the magic?” Yes, I’m sure, not that I hate that you do, but I do not, will not, and am sure about my experience and feelings just as much as someone who feels it. The mystery of the universe is not perplexing enough to me to believe in gods or a higher power. The “higher power” is just natural laws, physics, mathematics, chemistry, and coincidence, and luck. Leave me be😭

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Anonymous 14h

Totally fair to be tired of people talking down to you about what you believe. But it's kind of ironic that a couple of replies here do the same thing in reverse. Not every religious person thinks one book explains all of physics, and plenty of traditions are built on questioning and arguing with the text. Respect goes both ways, that's all.

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Anonymous 12h

Just checked again and the name of this group is still US politics. No religion in the title

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12h

Eh I honestly think it’s a bit different. Or I should say I know you do get condescended to by Christians like agnostics do but I think the reasons are different. Atheism says that there is no god in a similar way that world religions claim that there is one, meanwhile agnosticism does neither, instead saying ‘we can’t prove there is or isn’t one’. As a scientist I think that’s the only reasonable perspective to have, I mean we know that we understand next to nothing about how the universe came

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

Into being and to claim that we know for sure there wasn’t some entity isn’t really something we can substantiate. I feel incredibly confident that there wasn’t a white guy in sandals who did it in 7 days but I can’t say there wasn’t some entity that kicked things off. In my experience atheists, with their total beliefs, have slightly more respect from religious folks because yall are absolutely sure of something, meanwhile agnostics are sure of being unsure, which gets misunderstood and shat on

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 12h

And yet the world keeps turning

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Anonymous 12h

Interesting, do you agree with it?

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Anonymous 11h

I mean do you agree tho? Do you respect atheists more for having an absolutist view like you do and not instead keeping open the possibility of something unexpected?

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Anonymous 11h

Or what? U gonna spank me in the name of Christ?

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Anonymous 11h

Gonna need some soap for that mouth, Gods children should not be talking about ass fucking

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

Speaking of which is that considered a sin like premarital sex is? I’ve heard differing opinions

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Anonymous 11h

Baby it’s still me :( I’m still the same guy who said that thing about agnosticism

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

And I am genuinely interested on 1. A holy man’s take on the sinfulness of anal and 2. A holy man’s take on respectability between atheists and agnostics if you care to answer 😗

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Anonymous 11h

You too bro! We can circle back tomorrow :)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

Won’t be back. You ruined it

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11h

Have you had anything to eat lately? Sometimes apple slices and peanut butter help get me out of a funk

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

Take your own advice. Clearly you were in a funk when you pivoted and started asking dumbass questions about anal

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11h

I actually am rn, that’s why I said it lmao. Got the crunchy peanut butter too ts slaps

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

Hey I don’t think it was dumb :( people genuinely do that cause they think it’s not a sin and I’m curious what a holy man has to say abt it

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1h

What are you gonna do about it?

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