Is atheism a sin?

Originally posted by Deja~vu
If something forces you to love or else, then it isn't love. It's manipulation.

👆 and what is manipulation? A type of power.

Originally posted by Deja~vu
If something forces you to love or else, then it isn't love. It's manipulation.

Who is forcing you?

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
Who is forcing you?

The fear of hell. 😛

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
The fear of hell. 😛

Your not being forced??

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
Your not being forced??

I'm not? If you said to me to do something or you will attack me. Is that forcing me? According to the law it is.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I'm not? If you said to me to do something or you will attack me. Is that forcing me? According to the law it is.

Look, do you love God?

No.

Therefore noone is forcing youl.

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
Look, do you love God?

No.

Therefore noone is forcing youl.

You are right, no one is forcing me. The reason for that is because there is no hell or god as described in the bible. However, every day, in the most insidious ways, I am forced by this Christian indoctrinated society I live in.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
...and I would not worship you. 😉

Not even out of fear?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Not even out of fear?

No. 😐

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
No. 😐

Then your not being forced.

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
Then your not being forced.

Did you not read this?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
You are right, no one is forcing me. The reason for that is because there is no hell or god as described in the bible. However, every day, in the most insidious ways, I am forced by this Christian indoctrinated society I live in.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Did you not read this?

So...your not being forced...so you take back what you originally said...noone is forcing you to love God.

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
So...your not being forced...so you take back what you originally said...noone is forcing you to love God.

That wasn't the point. The point was worship.

My society tries to force me, and other people to conform to Christian ideas. Unfortunately, it works on some people.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
That wasn't the point. The point was worship.

My society tries to force me, and other people to conform to Christian ideas. Unfortunately, it works on some people.

Evidence?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
That wasn't the point. The point was worship.

My society tries to force me, and other people to conform to Christian ideas. Unfortunately, it works on some people.

👆

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
My society tries to force me, and other people to conform to Christian ideas. Unfortunately, it works on some people.

strange, fundamentalist christians would say the opposite...

just sayin, you know 🙂

Originally posted by inimalist
strange, fundamentalist christians would say the opposite...

just sayin, you know 🙂

I can't argue with that. 😄

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
So...your not being forced...so you take back what you originally said...noone is forcing you to love God.

Originally posted by Deja~vu
It is being forced by default. "You won't love me, then I'll destroy you."

Yet, you don't love him...

If you were being forced, you would.

^no, people can resist being forced, but at a price. tell me that YOU beleive that people who dont love god will get off scott free in the afterlife then. {obviously you dont}. in the end its just fear, only, sum people have realised that the fear is just made up and is based on nuthing real and have gone beyond it. still doesnt excuse the behaviour of the hypothetical being{god} in question, as long as we are talking ethics.