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Search found 8 matches
- August 21st, 2007, 5:02 pm
- Forum: Social Club
- Topic: Why did you choose your particular user name?
- Replies: 288
- Views: 191365
- August 19th, 2007, 9:17 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Why people are gripped by religion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10051
Re: Failure to Listen
I have already received death threats from Muslims - I suspect that if you went public about leaving Islam, they would kill you. Well, to clarify things, I've hidden my secularism only from family and people in direct contact with them (or potentially so). Otherwise, most people in my class since m...
- August 12th, 2007, 6:18 am
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Why people are gripped by religion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10051
At least you didn't decide to deal with them the way I did as a teenager. I used to drag around heaps of research books and start huge arguments that always ended up with my being told I was the spawn of the devil and getting banned/suspended/grounded to the depths of something or other. Not the be...
- August 12th, 2007, 5:55 am
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Why people are gripped by religion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10051
Re: Secondary reason
The secondary reason for clinging to religion is social pressure i.e. family, friends, neighbours, etc. It would be very difficult to be an atheist in Afghanistan. When I told my parents about my decision to leave Islam they threatened to disown me! Eventually they came to accept my agnostic stance...
- August 10th, 2007, 1:17 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Harun Yahya
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1912
Re: Free books
http://www.hyahya.org What a lot of ignorant nonsense! Yes, it's pure crap for someone who's some knowledge, at least, of darwinism, different radicalist and non radicalist movements, philosophy,etc.. and wouldn't fall in the trap of strawman or slippery slope arguments and the like. But those who ...
- August 8th, 2007, 1:53 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Harun Yahya
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1912
Harun Yahya
I don't know to which extent this could be a serious ideological threat, but this guy has proven to be a real brainwasher and an insolent writer. I've heard the name Harun Yahya many years before, but I've never thought about reading his books or watching his documentaries (I've seen parts of some, ...
- August 4th, 2007, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Culture Club
- Topic: Tolkien
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2998
- August 4th, 2007, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Take the World View Quiz!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3351