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Candida1 year, 7 months ago

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I may be giving away the punchline, but those who read the comments before reading the article deserve it. I wholeheartedly agree with the conclusion: "Ultimately a person has to liberate themselves from religion, it is not for us to assume the role of atheist proselytes."
I've found that for a person raised in a religion it is an individual and hard process to become an atheist, and it has to come from within. As I was growing up, I questioned many things about religion, but what put the last nail into God's coffin for me was the suffering of the innocents. I had no desire to believe in a god that would allow the Holocaust, the famine in Ukraine, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the burning of Dresden, the killing of the Armenians, and all the other atrocities throughout history.
(BTW, the biggest surprise for me in this essay was that there is an "Atheist community.")

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  antibrainwasher1 year, 7 months ago
  
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  I was a skeptic since a child, but it took meeting and talking with other atheists to solidify my understanding.
  Yes there is an atheist community out there, you can suscribe to American Atheist magazine, and go to their conventions.
  Suprisingly, a huge Indian (In India) Atheist community exists, funding their own hospitals and schools.
  
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  Dionys1 year, 7 months ago
  
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  "(BTW, the biggest surprise for me in this essay was that there is an "Atheist community.")"
  There tend to be communities for all faith traditions.
  Even Jedis in England, if you can believe it.
  
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    Coatl1 year, 7 months ago
    
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    May the force be with you! I wonder if such a community (an atheist one, altough a Jedi one would be cool also =P) is possible here in Catholic Mexico.
    
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      toph19731 year, 7 months ago
      
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      I guess that someone dressed as Darth Vader came in and attacked the founder of said Jedi Church. Darn Sith.
      
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