Question about atheists

[Queasy]

If an atheists repeatedly swears and uses the swear word 'g_d-d@mn' and all its variations....are they really an atheist?

 

[gopunk]

depends, but not on anything related to your question. it's just an expression.

for example, i say goddamn all the time. yet i don't believe in any gods. i'd like to hear an argument as to why i would *not* be atheist.

 

[jaeger66]

Figure of speech, that's all. I say it about 50 times a day.

 

[melly]

hahaha. maybe they are cursing the gods which don't exist? 😛

 

[datalink7]

Why wouldn't they be? To them, those are just words like any other. A series of sounds strung together that mean something by their construction, not because of the existence of some greater being.

 

[notfred]

If I say "Easter Bunny" 100 times does it mean I believe there's an Easter Bunny?

 

[Siddhartha]

yep.
I have started saying "spaghetti dammit" and "terry cloth dammit".

 

[NightTrain]

Originally posted by: notfred
If I say "Easter Bunny" 100 times does it mean I believe there's an Easter Bunny?

Better not take the chance.

 

[melly]

Originally posted by: notfred

If I say "Easter Bunny" 100 times does it mean I believe there's an Easter Bunny?

i'd be more concerned as to why you said easter bunny 100 times 😀

 

[0roo0roo]

theres something amusing about using gods name in vain😉

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: jaeger66
Figure of speech, that's all. I say it about 50 times a day.

 

[Syringer]

I grew up with it, hearing it on TV and all..and it naturally became embedded in my speech.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: notfred
If I say "Easter Bunny" 100 times does it mean I believe there's an Easter Bunny?

Well no. But if an atheists gets into an argument with someone and says "g_d d@mn you!" aren't they basically invoking a being that they don't believe exists to do harm upon another? I mean, there's a reason they are called 'curse' words. 😀

 

[melly]

Originally posted by: Syringer
I grew up with it, hearing it on TV and all..and it naturally became embedded in my speech.

lol...x post this in the WOTD thread! 🙂

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: notfred
If I say "Easter Bunny" 100 times does it mean I believe there's an Easter Bunny?

You don't believe in the Easter Bunny?? Well you are not going ot get any Life saving soul eggs and go to the shinny hole in the ground if you don't 😉

EVERYBODY knows there is a Easter Bunny as there is a Budda, God, Alla, etc....

😛

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Syringer
I grew up with it, hearing it on TV and all..and it naturally became embedded in my speech.

Syringer going with the word of the day 😉

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: notfred
If I say "Easter Bunny" 100 times does it mean I believe there's an Easter Bunny?

Well no. But if an atheists gets into an argument with someone and says "g_d d@mn you!" aren't they basically invoking a being that they don't believe exists to do harm upon another? I mean, there's a reason they are called 'curse' words. 😀

its also mockingly throwing back the others religion at them😛

 

[FuZoR]

i say goddamn and j.c..

and I dont believe in god and my family are buddist. lol

 

[LeeTJ]

his question is valid tho.

IF NO ONE believed in God, would God Dammit still shock anyone??

 

[MercenaryForHire]

What's with the underscoring/@'ing of "God damn" anyhow?

/me agnostic and I say goddammit ... does that make me a believer?

- M4H

 

[fatalbert]

Originally posted by: caramel
hahaha. maybe they are cursing the gods which don't exist? 😛

not quite, grammatically speaking they are asking God to curse something

 

[ConclamoLudus]

I don't think an infinitely powerfully good being cares much about word context. I think he can tell between honest hate towards him, or someone just being annoyed at something. Or that's just my excuse for using the word all the time 😉

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: FuZioN
i say goddamn and j.c..

and I dont believe in god and my family are buddist. lol

sometimes i even say "god knows" 🙂 haahha!

 

[melly]

what does the "H" stand for, like when people say : Jesus H... X.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
his question is valid tho.

IF NO ONE believed in God, would God Dammit still shock anyone??

i think that people who are shocked by it are kind of... sheltered. i just use it to express how i feel.