Welcome Atheist Republic to Steem!
I am happy to announce the recent outcome of my free 100k Delegation campaign I ran on twitter here: https://bit.ly/339CAxc
Please give a warm welcome to Atheist Republic (@atheistrepublic) to Steem!
Atheist Republic has over 2.3 million followers across social media!
Most notably 2.2 million followers on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AtheistRepublic
And 111k followers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AtheistRepublic
And their website: https://www.atheistrepublic.com/
About Atheist Republic:
Atheist Republic is the largest community of atheist in the world providing support and amplifying the voices of those who need protection especially in countries where people feel isolated simply for their lack of belief.
I would love to show people new to Steem how wonderful this place is and how much potential is here.
I ask that you take a minute and give Atheist Republic content a look over, and if you think you will enjoy, give them a follow.
Thank you @theycallmedan.
We are coming online now and will reply to people's comments.
Welcome @atheistrepublic we will all be looking forward to your first post. 👍👍
Thank you @wonderwop.
We just uploaded our first video earlier today and our plan is to upload 1 video almost every day.
Awesome! If you need any help setting anything up please let me know.
Thank god! Or, wait... Good job!
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Good one :)
This is a great work Dan! Thanks for all.
I didn't even know such a community was existing :)
Feel free to check out some of our work @lemouth.
We just finished uploading our first video earlier today and we plan to upload 1 video almost every day.
I will have a look later today, after work ;)
It'll be nice to engage people in the comment section too.
Welcome to steemit✌
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job well done sir, so he'll be good in promoting steem maybe.
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We will be uploading about 1 video per day and we just uploaded our first video.
Feel free to take a look and be sure to leave us feedback 😃
Welcome to to the Steem Blockchain @atheistrepublic! :)
Thank you @stackin 😃
This post has been included in the latest edition of The Steem News - a compilation of the key news stories on the Steem blockchain.
Thank you @pennsif 😃
Awesome. I think I was one of the first people to follow them after I saw your announcement on twitter.
I'm pleased to see that your personal goals on steem are about balance of voices and freedom of speech. At the end of the day the likes of Facebook and YouTube arbitrarily deciding who can say what, is a style of centralised social control. They act like the digital governments of the internet enforcing their agendas on everyone through censorship.
I became interested in blockchain tech for its potential for an evolution away from the same old controlling systems of governance. A good place to start is getting rid of censorship, providing the content neither harms or abuses anyone or incites others to cause harm to people. People arguing ideological differences isn't harming anyone, but some people are bound to end up offended.
The old saying is true; 'you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.'
It's something like that anyway 😂
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Thank you @raj808 😃
P.S. Freedom of speech is important.
Wise words. 🤣
Wow.. their twitter makes quite the first impression 😃
Thanks for checking our Twitter 😃 @justineh
@steemchurch hates this! :P just kidding, welcome!
😆 break out the 'life of Brian' quotes cause steemchurch will throw down on these heathens... of course I joke too.
Hopefully steem can be a bastion for moderate debate and friendly discussion between people with differing opinions... 🤣
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Not going to happen, you just have to take a look at the Christians vs atheists debates... They start really good with lots of interesting philosophical arguments, then it's down to a myriad of insults from one side to another... I wrote it in another comment, I think that there's not helping this outcome since faith is not a subject to be debated, it's meant to be believed, felt, embraced... or not. Hence, there's no middle point about it.
I don't particularly disagree with you joelsegovia... I'll just point out that 100% of that comment I wrote above was meant as a joke.
To me the whole thing is rediculous. Hence the joking. Why people would argue, let alone kill each other, over ideological differences has baffled me all of my life.
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Thank you for the nice discussion @joelsegovia & @raj808 👍
I enjoyed reading it 😃
Glad you like it, hoping to get the chance to read your content and engage with some of the folks who write about this topic
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I have the same mindset about reliegion-based conflicts... It would be awesome if someone involved in such a conflict could state how is it exactly that people with different ideas about faith is a threaten against its own...
Because, let's assume that certain subject is right and a particular God-like entity does exist, as far as I know at most beleivers are asked to try to convince other people... If people just don't listen then it's the God-like entity's business. There's no need to go and hate, fight, etc the unfaithful ones.
I think you've hit on one of the key points of how/why more and bloody murder has been perpetuated in the name of religion, than any other mechanism of thought human-kind has ever envisioned.
It's the 'my god is right, your god is wrong' attitude and the political machinations of corrupt people and systems within religions that perpetuate this idea.
Yeah, I agree. But I don't think they ever would. Some of them are genuinely sociopaths, I.E. they enjoy being part of the chaos, pain and suffering caused by demonizing one group of people based on a differing belief system. Others, are simply so emotionally invested in being part of the church/mosque/temple that they become blind to the pain, and indoctrinated, by those who benefit from causing and perpetuating conflict among religions. It's politics!
When you take the church, mosque, temple... whatever you want to call the centralized seat of power for all the major religions out of the equation, what you usually have (in all religions) is a bunch of people who believe in a set of simple rules they live their life by. Love and compassion for your fellow man, charity etc. Many of the tenants are very similar across the religious systems, yet people are herded toward a doctrine of separation.
I'm an atheist/agnostic but I recognize the FACT that the vast majority of religious folks are good people simply trying to live their lives as best they can.
I have got a problem with the more aggressive people of any religion that are all about converting as many people as possible, mainly because I see them as egotistical to assume I (or anyone else) haven't looked at various religions with an open mind and come to my choices through considered education and thought. But even in these cases, what is the point in getting angry or combative with those guys lol, for me kindness, understanding and love are the universal commodities that we can all share. If someone is annoying me by trying to force their views/beliefs on me, I find it's constructive to remove myself from their company but offer them understanding rather than aggression when I have to deal with them.
The main thing that makes me laugh when I encounter jehovah's witnesses knocking on my door, or Mormons tapping my shoulder on the bus is that they so often can't grasp why I don't feel the need to debate with them, and in some cases become pretty annoyed. It just doesn't interest me. Usually the offence is taken on their side, because you are somehow wrong in not listening and acknowledging their faith. This is an insane view point. There is no need to acknowledge faith, people either have it or they don't. Faith by it's very nature is personal. It's like me going around knocking on church doors hassling worshipers to acknowledged that god doesn't exist (only my opinion)... I would never do that because... you know.... live and let live. I respect everyone's right to their choices unless they are causing violence to people not in self defense.
At the end of the day as you say here:
My choice to not believe in any god is my choice, and your (I assume) choice to believe in a higher power is your choice... there is no need to fight about it. That's a truly pointless argument.
All the best :)
I'm a scientist so I tend to follow the evidences , but science also has some kind of faith in its core, which is that somehow we can perceive at least portions of "the reality", and that this "reality" and the laws it follows is somehow objective and independent of the particular mindset of the person observing it... This ontologic principle is, as far as I understand, not possible to demonstrate since its demonstration has an inherent paradox within.
Religion and the shape it has given to human society across hundred of years is another story. To me it's more like a cultural manifestation of the Human society as as whole, an intrinsic part of each human group.
By the way, it's not that I believe or not in superior entities. The thing is that I think that "facts" do exist (but we might be wrong about this one ) and that I am unaware of the vast majority of them. That's my phylosophycal stand about live.
Thank you for the warm welcome @acidyo 😃
Lol this will be interesting... there are lots of folks who follow some kind of church-like account here on Steem, I'll be getting ready my popcorns.
Edited: I followed them but I was wondering, can they claim account tickets with the RC from the SP you delegated to them? If so how many? Considering their huge following base, just onboarding 1% of them will require thousands of new accounts.
It might increase engagement on Steem since there may be debates on @steemit now.
It surely will increase engagement, as for debating I really don't know... Atheists and religious people don't get along that well.
I think it also depends on the atheist and the "religious" person.
Oh, don't get me wrong... I don't have any stand against any religion, I have nothing that drives me to support one either. It's just I have read several hundreds of debates about this subject and barely 5% of them ended without any form of conflict... I think cuz on the deep end religion is not about reason is about faith, and peoples feelings and experience is something untransferable (so far).
I personally don't think religion is about faith as much as people think it is.
I think religion is about truth since people have faith in what they believe because they think it is true.
In that sense, I think atheists and theists will ultimately arrive at the same conclusions, so long as they seek seriously enough and long enough.
Having said that, I think atheists tend to explain things from a 2nd or 3rd person perspective and the theists who add value, are most likely explaining things from a 1st person perspective.
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This is an interesting approach, but at the same time might be the reason about why while on debates is so difficult to reach a midpoint. Some people think that if something as the truth exist is unique, therefore most try to prove that their ideas are the ones which are true, hence divergent ideas are false.
It can also be a matter of perspective where any sentence or group of words can be realized as true or false depending on the way it is interpreted or explained 👍
Thank you for sharing your thoughts @joelsegovia 😃