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....wait, is that a serious question? Uhh...well, I wouldn't think we could since a sin is an afront to god. But we can do "bad" things, but since evil is a point of veiw, whether it is bad or not depends on who you do it to. An atheist can still have morals, but morals chnage from person to person as well........Hmmm.......anyone can jump in and help......anytime.

I read that thing...and counted how many I matched. If the newsletter thingy were true...over half of America would be "goth"
it's really quite entertaining that so many people can be that clueless... lol

Yes it was a serious question, and thank you for answering it. 3nodding I have my morals. I had a mormon and a christian get on my back about it, asking me and once they tried to convert me. So I asked this question to see how some of you may think of it and because it was bugging me. Thanks 3nodding

I remember when I told my mom I was an Atheist. My mother heavily dependent on religion. I told her I refused to go to chruch to listen to things I don't beleive in, nor worship someone I don't think exist.
She was gasping for a good 5 minutes, pointing at me then started blaming my friends for my "abandoning God". Then I pointed out to her, my close friends at the time were both Christians. She fumbled somemore then accused me of being Satan's worshipper and cried running out of the house. When she came back, she said that I was a typicall rebel teenager and she was gunna fix me. eek
She's not gunna quit trying to re-convert me back to Christianity till I die.

My parents don't know. We never went to church anyway, so you couldn't expect me to actually believe in the Catholic ways. I told the kids at my table and they asked what I believed in. That was a fun 10 minutes yelling at them.

Oooh, that's a good question. Personally, I don't believe in the concept of sin anyway, so it's a moot point. However, assuming temporarily that sin does exist, I would think that every human would be capable of it. In fact, some Christians would argue that by our mere existence as atheists we are sinning, since not worshipping or acknowledging God could be an affront to him.

As for stereotyping, once upon a time my grandmother was trying to get me to pray the rosary every day so my dad would get a job (yeah, I know ><), and the only way I could honestly tell her I couldn't do it was to say, "Er, actually Grandma...I'm an atheist." To which she replied: "You don't believe in God?! Who do you worship then, yourself?"

Has anyone else encountered this? I have to assume that some priest or someone whose religious opinion she respected told her that atheists don't worship god, they worship themselves. o.O Which I do not understand at all.

People in general depend on worship, and assume it's impossible for someone not to worship something.

People think since I am an atheist I am like uber depressed all the time and they mistake my mourning for my father (who died recently) as the absence of God.

Me: *Looks sad*
Them: That's what happens when you don't believe in God

Oh and this happened during school.

Friend: Hey these guys over there wanted you to read this. *Hands me piece of paper*
Paper: What's the point of living if there is no point at all.
Me: Uh... wtf is this about?
Friend: I don't know. They though since you were atheist you could figure it out.
Me: *Storms over to the people* Listen, just cause God doesn't exist doesn't mean I find no reason to live! I'm still here am I not? What is your reason to live?
Them: God/Jesus.
Me: You live for God/Jesus?
Them: Yeah.
Me: What do they want you to do?
Them:...
Me: So stfu. stare