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PRAISE THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER! My brother deconverted!

Posted on: April 24, 2007 - 12:55am

BenfromCanada

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PRAISE THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER! My brother deconverted!

I kind of thought he had. After all, he gave me a copy of the God Who Wasn't There and led me to several YouTube atheists. I only just got confirmation that he's been one of us for a while. Ironically, a Young Earth Creationist converted him. He made a convincing argument that christianity and evolution didn't mix. In my brother's words "so I threw my hands up in the air and said, By God, Christianity doesn't seem plausible." Then he looked into it and became an agnostic atheist type. This is awesome!

Look at my blog! It's awesome!
I'm also on this Twitter thing

Posted on: April 24, 2007 - 1:12am #1

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It's great when other people

It's great when other people do your work for you.

Posted on: April 24, 2007 - 9:08am #2

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LOL!!! Especially when it's

LOL!!! Especially when it's a conservative Christian's tactics backfiring!

Posted on: April 24, 2007 - 10:28am #3

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Very cool Ben. The young

Very cool Ben. The young earthers may have some benefits after all.

Posted on: April 24, 2007 - 6:50pm #4

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Yeah, those Young Earth

Yeah, those Young Earth Creationists are insane, but when they back up their points, they turn intelligent minds off of their religion.

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Posted on: April 24, 2007 - 8:30pm #5

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Woot! I had a sneaking

Woot!

I had a sneaking suspicion about your brother when you mentioned the xmas gift.

I love what pushed him over the last part of doubt, too.

Thanks for the smile!!!

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Posted on: April 24, 2007 - 8:48pm #6

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Susan wrote: Woot! I had a

Susan wrote:

Woot!
I had a sneaking suspicion about your brother when you mentioned the xmas gift.
I love what pushed him over the last part of doubt, too.
Thanks for the smile!!!

Easter gift. Yeah, I'm glad too. Turns out that he had been an atheist for a few weeks before that. I am pleased, though.

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Posted on: April 25, 2007 - 5:37pm #7

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BenfromCanada

BenfromCanada wrote:

Ironically, a Young Earth Creationist converted him. He made a convincing argument that christianity and evolution didn't mix. In my brother's words "so I threw my hands up in the air and said, By God, Christianity doesn't seem plausible." Then he looked into it and became an agnostic atheist type. This is awesome!

Awesome. I wonder if this Y.E.C. could talk to my sister...

It's only the fairy tales they believe.

Posted on: April 25, 2007 - 9:09pm #8

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I'm so happy for you

I'm so happy for you BenfromCanada!

-MeaganfromCanada

Posted on: April 25, 2007 - 9:49pm #9

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rexlunae wrote: Awesome. I

rexlunae wrote:

Awesome. I wonder if this Y.E.C. could talk to my sister...

I'd have to find out which one, but if it's a speaker or something, I'd hook you up.

Maragon wrote:

I'm so happy for you BenfromCanada!

-MeaganfromCanada

MeaganfromCanada...that's cute! (like you

) You should be on MSN more...and like, talk to the rest of my family. Based on what I've read, I'm sure you could probably convert at least one of my family members, maybe more.

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Posted on: April 25, 2007 - 10:05pm #10

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I'm always on MSN,

I'm always on MSN, seriously, like always.

Maybe you got my address wrong?

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http://atheismisrational.blogspot.com/

Posted on: April 25, 2007 - 10:26pm #11

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i deconverted two people

i deconverted two people just by giving them a copy of the "irrationality of theism" essay on this site to read

Posted on: April 25, 2007 - 10:30pm #12

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Rev0lver wrote: i

Rev0lver wrote:

i deconverted two people just by giving them a copy of the "irrationality of theism" essay on this site to read

Hotshot!

Look at my blog! It's awesome!
I'm also on this Twitter thing

Posted on: April 26, 2007 - 7:56pm #13

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Rev0lver wrote: i

Rev0lver wrote:

i deconverted two people just by giving them a copy of the "irrationality of theism" essay on this site to read

Only one thing to say about that:

WOOT!

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Posted on: April 26, 2007 - 11:10pm #14

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I wish me and my brother

I wish me and my brother could connect on more atheist things and enjoy stuff of that nature lol BUT my brother is totally apathetic to anyting religious or non-religious lol. He's neither religious or non-religious if that is possible to be neither but he just doesn't care lol.

Quote:

Religion at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it makes you walk straight and feel better - fine. But you don't need it forever, or you can become permanently disabled.

---George Carlin---

Posted on: April 28, 2007 - 1:27am #15

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FreeThoughtMakesMeTingle

FreeThoughtMakesMeTingle wrote:

I wish me and my brother could connect on more atheist things and enjoy stuff of that nature lol BUT my brother is totally apathetic to anyting religious or non-religious lol. He's neither religious or non-religious if that is possible to be neither but he just doesn't care lol.

Maybe your brother knows George Carlin. I loved this little story:

If George Carlin knows anything, it's that he's neither an atheist nor an agnostic.

"I'm an acrostic," he says. "It's all a puzzle to me."

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Posted on: April 28, 2007 - 2:12am #16

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rexlunae

rexlunae wrote:

BenfromCanada wrote:
Ironically, a Young Earth Creationist converted him. He made a convincing argument that christianity and evolution didn't mix. In my brother's words "so I threw my hands up in the air and said, By God, Christianity doesn't seem plausible." Then he looked into it and became an agnostic atheist type. This is awesome!
Awesome. I wonder if this Y.E.C. could talk to my sister...

ditto, though I suspect my sisters would just stick their fingers in their ears and start singing "la, la, la, I can't hear you!!!"

Seriously, getting through to the willfully ignorant is extremely difficult.

Why yes, I can believe it's not butter!