I have yet to see an atheist or agnostic passing out tracts, etc. I guess they don't feel very comforted by their beliefs, or motivated to share!
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We don't need to, you're doing a very fine job of converting people to atheism with your own tracts that we don't have to waste any more money, time and effort then we do now.
But on the other hands there are those busses with atheist slogans that get your panties in a knot, of course...
We are comfortable in our beliefs, so comfortable it doesn't matter to us that others believe differently.
If someone asks, or if there is a discussion, I'll share. Otherwise all the information is there, in libraries and on the internet, for interested parties to find.
Or maybe we're not so insecure in our beliefs that we feel the need to try to eliminate any competition.
Live and let live is what I believe. I don't need pass out silly little pieces of paper for that.
Oh and many atheists/agnostics are also environmentalists, so killing trees and creating more litter also goes against our beliefs.
Why should I?
Everyone's free to believe in whatever he/she wishes. I don't mind and I don't feel the urge to proselytize (sp? not native speaking)
Or we just don't feel so high and mighty that we think other people need to be told what to think.
Seriously, this is so idiotic it has to be a Poe.
I've got lots of good atheist pamphlets. "God and the State" by Bakunin. "How the Gods Were Made" "The Philosophy of Atheism" by Emma Goldman. "The Meaning of Atheism" by E. Haldeman-Julius. When the Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door last year i was offered some of their literature. I said i would read it if they read some of the above pamphlets, but the guy refused and seemed sort of angry and offended.
Or maybe they're not assholes like you are.
Farpadokly: I know a mormon who did that. The JWs refused to take the mormon tracts even to get their own into that house. Afterwards when they did that street again they skipped that house.
Or maybe we're secure enough in our beliefes, or lack thereof, that we don't feel the need to hand out insulting comic books, laughable 'news' pamphlets, and disturbing conspiracy theories to the masses so that we feel safer in numbers.
No, we just don't find it necessary to try to convert everyone in the world so that we're surrounded by like-minded people.
And if atheists were passing out tracts, everyone on RR would be having a major fit.
But when we do, or share our messages on billboards or buses, you bitch.
Besides, I don't share my beliefs because it's none of my business what you believe, as long as you don't push it on others. Something fundies don't understand.
"I have yet to see an atheist or agnostic passing out tracts, etc. I guess they don't feel very comforted by their beliefs, or motivated to share!"
Which beliefs are those again?
They're the ones who always claim that atheism/sciencism/evolutionism is a religion that seeks to convert everyone and persecute Christians, yada yada, and then they also blame atheists for not evangelizing enough? Which is it?
These people literally can not comprehend having a nonreligious worldview.
Hey Acts5:41, give me your address and I'll send you some literature that will totally make you give up Christstainity. You have to promise to read it, though, from cover to cover and not consult with a minister to explain away the horrific stories you will find inside.
Well, if you don't believe in a deity, why should you pass out tracts on it? Maybe, just maybe, we don't care what you believe and don't feel the need to oppress everyone with it
I don't hand out tracts because I find being given tracts annoying and I don't want to annoy people. Although I'm tempted to print out a few in case the JWs come round again.
I'll happily talk about my lack of beliefs, but only to people who actually ask me to.
Because atheism isn't a religion, we have no dogma to preach, no pews to fill, and no quota of souls to poach? It's cool if you want to tithe to me, though.
Well I can't speak for others but I don't pass out tracts because I don't care what other people believe so long as they keep those beliefs out of my personal life and out of government. Other than that, you can believe that the Mushroom Kingdom is a real place and that being a plumber will enable you to live there for all I care.
"I have yet to see an atheist or agnostic passing out tracts, etc. I guess they don't feel very comforted by their beliefs, or motivated to share!"
Ah, but when we have Kitzmiller vs. Dover making the teaching of 'I.D.' (and therefore Creationism) as fact in all the US's schools, colleges etc illegal (thus by law, Evolution is fact and Creation is lies ), and the fact that you use computers with OS's (Windows, OSX Snow Leopard, Linux) created by Atheists, installed on something developed by an Atheist and a homosexual (Alan Turing), and that soon, a device in Switzerland will soon reveal the cosmological source of the universe, as per the mathematical model proven to exist by Atheist cosmologists...
...we don't need to.
Welcome to our world, Ruptured Retards.
>:D
If it makes you feel any better, I'll start leaving tracts from normalbobsmith.com laying around different places.
And wasn't there a thread on there recently were a college student was pissed off that her religious tracts were being taken off the bulletin board and anti-Christian tracts were being left in their place?
I don't know about tracts , but many atheists have written entire books explaining why they don't believe in God. To list just a few:
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
There are hundreds more on Amazon.com. I think that's proof a being "motivated to share" one beliefs (or lack thereof).
Maybe "Goddidit" can be expanded out to fill screeds and screeds, but "I kinda don't believe there is a god" doesn't really need expanding on.
Anything else is a personal position, and not the position of atheists as a group, so any such atheist tract would not represent atheists.
How does one manage to become so irredeemably ignorant?
Atheists don't give a shit about what people believe so long as they don't try to impose it on others.
Atheists have no belief system, so why have leaflets to hand out?
Try to raise your ignorance level above the such Chickery, where is seems stuck.
Most of us have better things to do with our time. We don't really give a damn about what other people think, as long as they're not forcing their beliefs on others, or altering our laws to fit them.
Some atheists out there do seem to care, though. They are usually seen as anti-Christian, because everything that isn't pro-Christian must be anti-Christian, right?
There's an old quote on here about a Native American saying "If you take a copy of the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain."
We don't need to hand out pamphlets trying to twist observable reality to match our delusions, because we have reality . The world itself is our tract (so indeed, we have 'tracts of land', if you wish), and it's more convincing than yours.
Actually, it is the person that is insecure in his/her beliefs that tries to force everyone to convert to their way. Most atheists/agnostics are secure in their beliefs and could not care less about what others believe. It is only when others try and force their beliefs that an atheist/agnostic would be concerned.
I have yet to see an atheist or agnostic passing out tracts
That's because, while you're trolling the city looking for atheists, I'm at your house giving your wife &/or daughter a right proper rodgering.
Or maybe we just realize that shoving your beliefs down people's throats is a dick move. Plus, seeing how big a knot you get your panties in when we so much as reveal our opinions in public, one would expect that actually handing out tracts and proselytizing as much as you freaks do might result in your pantie knots reaching critical mass and ripping apart the fabric of reality as we know it. We're doing it for the safety of the universe, people!
Telling other people what to think or what to believe or not really isn't my business.
I can discuss or share my opinion and correct few misconceptions during converstions if it's necessary, like someone asking my view on something or someone just being stupid and needing to know better...
and about feeling comforted... after so many years of "trying this and that and not really believing in anything and definately being skeptical about existance of christian god", when I finally admitted to myself that I don't need to believe in anything, that life is meaningful on itself I *gasp!* found my inner peace :)
"I have yet to see an atheist or agnostic passing out tracts, etc."
That's 'cause we have LIVES! Why don't you go get one?
"I guess they don't feel very comforted by their beliefs, or motivated to share!"
I'm comforted in my belief in the invisible, pink polka-dotted unicorn named Georgette. If you insist I'll share ...
You are right. There is little motivation to share. See....we dont have churches, and as such, dont pass out offering plates to collect money. We dont expect our "recruits" to tithe money to us for the rest of their lives. That is something xianity does. So no....no real motivation to pass out tracts. But yall sure do have motivation for it. Gotta raise that filthy lucre to make your church go round...
True, but you can buy books by intelligent authors like Dawkins or Hitchens from any good bookstore, or from Amazon.
Free bullshit we leave to you.
Anon-e-moose
"I have yet to see an atheist or agnostic passing out tracts, etc. I guess they don't feel very comforted by their beliefs, or motivated to share!"
Okay. Here you go:
http://www.betterthanfaith.com/tracts
http://www.atheisteye.com/AtheistTract.pdf
Happy now? [/sarcasm]
@Percy Q. Shunn
'I have yet to see an atheist or agnostic passing out tracts'
"That's because, while you're trolling the city looking for atheists, I'm at your house giving your wife &/or daughter a right proper rodgering."
Give her one for me, pal!
>:D
1. I'm not trying to change anyone's mind about anything, because that to me is a waste of time. Nobody benefits from it. 2. If I were trying to convert people to atheism, I'd speek to them face to face. Tracts are a coward's way to share your beliefs.
Passing out tracts, if I remember well, was inspired to Chick by, I can't stop laughing, communist China. Of course, that they control the media and thus, it's far more effective. Once I said that, I have to tell you a secret. Mainstream Christianism don't pass tracts either because IT JUST DOESN'T WORK. If you pass a tract, you don't really know if people have converted or not. They keep on being anonymous faces anyway. Not only that, they're so convinced about their beliefs that they don't need to convert others to feel secured. That's real life, baby.
how would that work, exactly:
*knock knock*
"Excuse me, sir, I'd like to share with you the good news of nothing. Sir, you can feel safe and comforted when you take nothing into your heart and accept nothing as your savior."
We have no reason to. You won't listen to us, we won't listen to you. Besides, you forgot, we control the classrooms.
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