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The popular Christian blog Stuff Christians Like had an article containing some Christian emoticons”. For those who don’t know what emoticons are :O, you missed the internet era :P, please go back 10 or 15 years :D. Ok, so lets see what a few atheist emoticons would look like.

(?) = We’re not sure what created the universe, but it probably wasn’t a god.

*.oO = Having said that, the Big Bang is our best possible explanation at this point.

<<<O>>> = Aliens seeding Earth with life is a neat idea, but it doesn’t explain where the aliens came from.

>>>8 (E) = A meteor colliding with Earth and creating life makes a bit more logical sense.

\…V…W = In any case, the diversity of life is best explained by Evolution.

($#@^!&*) = Despite what you may think, I’m not a nihilist.

oo—[A] = I read atheist blogs regularly.

[:::::]~~[A] = I’m such a hardcore atheist, I even write an atheist blog.

OO—(( RC )) = I read Ray Comforts blog and have an irrational fear of bananas.

(( < X## = All things being equal, the pineapple pwns the banana.

oo—[PZ] ~00~ .:| (/) = I go to Phyrangula for my daily fix of octopi, poll boosting, and occasional cracker desecration.

Any others you think should be added to the list? The floor is open…

The title of this blogpost comes from a popular quote by Robert A Heinlein.

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

I personally think this is shown quite well in Edward Current’s latest video on YouTube entitled “An Atheist Meets God”.

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Nick from the forums wants to have a word…

I would like to invite all Christians to have a responsible and peaceful discussion. Although I don’t think a website devoted to Atheism is on the priority list for any Christian, I just want to have a discussion with you.

I will not be cross and will not use offensive (I never do anyway) or sarcastic remarks.

I was a Christian before but had a change of mind. I would maybe like to share my experiences with you.

If you still think I’m a jerk for being an Atheist, that’s fine with me, but if you would like to live a better life with peace of mind, I urge you to listen just as I will to anything you have to say.

Thank you.
~Nick

If you are a Christian and want to take Nick up on his offer, join the forums and reply to his thread.

I was born an atheist, just like the rest of humanity. I was christened when I was 1 and became a Christian. When I was 11 I renounced my faith and became “uncertain” in the existence of gods. A little less than a year later I had converted fully to atheism. 9 years down the line, and I was wondering if “sitting on the fence” was a worthy term for agnostics, and when I had researched the original meaning of the term I realized that I’d been an agnostic atheist all along. A few weeks later, through some persuasive arguments from Kieran Bennett, I realize that whilst I’m agnostic about a so-called “unknown” god (i.e. the non-religious “creator” or “deist god”), I am gnostic about every other god humanity has ever believed in. Now I have no idea what I am. Technically speaking I’m mostly a gnostic atheist since I’m only agnostic about one particular god, but since I’m not fully gnostic I can’t label myself that. Furthermore, due to some recent conversations I had come to label myself as an apathetic agnostic atheist, or “one who doesn’t believe in gods, understands he can never be proved right or wrong, and really doesn’t care either way”. Of course this label is borderline ridiculous in common conversation.

Thus I deduce that labels are annoying, yet I can’t label myself “anti-label” since that would be hypocritical. Therefore I’m doing the most obvious thing. I’m reverting back to a single word:

Atheist

If agnosticism comes up in conversation someday I’ll just run for the nearest exit. I’m keeping my label as simple as I possibly can…

Whether you like the term “deconvert” or prefer “conversion to atheism”, a recent investigative essay by Kieran Bennett has had quite a varied response. In light of this, I thought it might be interesting to run a poll to see how many people attribute their “deconversion” to Kieran’s conclusive factors.

Unlike previous polls, you can select multiple answers since there are probably multiple reasons. I’ve tried to reword a few factors so that ex-Muslims, Jews etc can also answer.

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