TCotteen, I think you hit the nail on the head!  SEVOFLURANE frequently posts some of the most hateful, offensive words I have read on NL.

I agree with the last poster.  Sevoflurane never has anything nice to say about anything.

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I suppose there can be an inverse relationship between education and a belief in God, but I know a lot of very highly educated people that do in fact believe in God and I know of people with very little education that do not believe in God.  I guess it can go either way.  

95% of the members of the Acadamy of Sciences are athiests.... It takes a certain degree of ignorance to believe in a god.

And an even higher degree of ignorance to state that!

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Attacking the people that have a belief in a higher power is a new low for you. Maybe you wish you were God? Is that it? WHAT THE HECK IS YOUR ISSUE MAN?????

 

I have attacked no one.... you godbelivers are a bit defensive in your position. I am pretty sure the only name calling was done by someone in your camp.

You still havent answered the question, what is your issue, you obviously have one. You try to start crap wherever you go, I have seen many many of your posts, not amny of them are nice, alot are rude and make you look like a pompous jerk. Didnt your mother ever tell you if you cant say anything nice dont say anything at all? And yes I realize I broke the rule, but someone has to take you down a peg!

The vitriol exhibited by god believers against those who not share thier veiw is astouding... and nothing new.

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I am pretty sure the TITLE of the forum was asking if  there were any ATHEIST nurses out there......I have no idea why you felt obligated to post.

Why do you in any other forum than?

 

If I post in another forum it is because i actually KNOW something about the question posed.....I am as much of a nurse as you are.

 

I stay out of forums i care nothing about.... such as child support etc.

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I do NOT hate god.. I do not believe god exsists... sooooo... it would be impossible to hate a nonexsistant entity,

I like that answer, I will have to remember that the next time my brother and I get into an argument......thanks

Hahaha, I have to admit that I personally find this discussion a tad on the interesting side what with all of you staunch religious peoples ganging up on Sevoflurane. In all honestly he/she just posed an innitially innocent question and that little quib apparently got everyone all riled up hahah.

I don't know, I do enjoy conversations about religion and whether one god exists over another god. Or if they did exist why everyone's all omniscient and ever benevelent god would allow a fellow god fearing woman to be raped several times before dismemberment at the hands of another god fearing group or men? Oh the question and discussions are potentially endless =]

You know, in my personal opinion I look at large, organized religions as the Avatar of the Evil they so denounce hahha, but that is just a personal opinion. Just look into the history of your churches, I am sure you will find something displeasing in there somewhere. Except for maybe Budism...those folks are interesting, very nice people though.

And if there is, in all reality a Being of unimaginable power and majesty floating around up there then I for one think that it is the farthest thing from anything that your bibles portray hahaha

I dont go to any church, in fact I hate going to church. I dont call my self any one religion, I am just me and what I believe. Also, I dont think you have to go to church to believe in God, and that is one of the reasons I dont like church. A building full of people who judge you and so called organized was never mentioned in the bible. That being said, I do believe he is up there.

Oh and to the poster who asked why He would allow such things to happen, He doesnt, its caled free will, You can thank Adam and Eve for that. Reading suggestion......The Shack

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Oh and to the poster who asked why He would allow such things to happen, He doesnt, its caled free will, You can thank Adam and Eve for that.

Could not have said that better myself. Very well put!!

I read it here, and have used it myself; churches are full of hypocrites.  The truth is; yes they are.  I attend church, and I guarantee that I am a sinner.  If a person isn't a sinner, there is no need for God because he is FOR sinners.  That is what salvation is all about.  Jesus was sent to bridge, or be a way for sinners to reconcile with God.  I am not about to get into a debate about which religion is the TRUE religion and which one is not.  I am a Christian regardless of which religion I belong to, unless it may be a non-Christian religion, then I would not be Christian.  I expressed my belief on another thread about the difference between spirituality and organized religion.  If I thought religion was absolutely right on every issue, and I had to believe every ritual to the letter, I wouldn't have become Christian.  Just as the name Christian states, it's about Christ, not about who eats fish on Friday or who is baptized by total immersion.  I had to wrestle with alot of myths, lies and truths in order to come to terms with my stand.  God either is, or he is not.  I prayed to Him out of desparation, He answered my prayers, and I accepted Him as "THE way, THE truth and THE life."  The only regret that I have is that I waited until I had exhausted all of my other options trying to find my way out of the Hell that I was in.  I used God as a last resort, and it was the only thing that actually worked.  All of my other efforts to find freedom were vain attempts that prolonged my suffering and drove me to the brink of suicide.  If I learned nothing else, I learned that rock bottom is as hard as hell.  (pun intended)  Have a great day everybody.

I am methodist, I do think its cute when I run into a baptist pal in the liquor store.........we dont duck.   As a matter of fact, I smile and greet them out loud, lol. Now this is one of the most stupid things I ever did <besides hooking up with husbands #1 and 2>.   I 'borrowed a couple of things I found in the bottom of my sisters closet when I was packing for a summer  church retreat:  a bottle of grain alcohol and a bottle of sloe gin.  Well, I didnt take the bottles.............I dumped the booz into juice containers and refilled her bottles up with water for the grain alcohol; and cherry koolaide for the sloe gin.   I also got busted along with my best friend <she went to law school at Columbia working her way through law school dancing with the Rockets> and her dad was the county and city judge for our town.   Canooing with a hangover sucks.  

I am an atheist nurse.

While I personally do not believe in god, I do not push my beliefs (or non-beliefs as it were) on anyone. This IS  a free country, and one can believe anything one wants to, or not believe...

Likewise, I do not wish to have anyone else's beliefs  forced on me. I don't really tell a lot of people that I am atheist, mainly because it really just never comes up, and I don't feel the need to disclose personal inofrmation to eveyone.. If  a conversation turns that direction, I have no problem telling anyone, though.

Oh, and I never talk to patients about these things (religion OR politics).To me, that is inappropriate.

I read the Francis Collins book and a great number of shorts from Einstein's ethics works and I track that way as well.  These are some smart people that realize that they are not smarter than God.  Collins kept very low key on his being a Christian while heading the Gernome Project to side step the hate mail types.  I think Collins realized that those that are not with God need more prayers not more hate, but at the same time he knew not to stir the coals from the lake.  In our end here it all comes down to you either are or are not. 

God speed to you - Tim

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http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html Einstein believed in God;

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/03/collins.commentary/index.html  Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Human Genome Project. His most recent book is "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."

http://www.allaboutcreation.org/scientists-who-believe-in-god-faq.htm 1996 and again in 1998, Pulitzer Prize winner Professor Edward Larson of the University of Georgia and Washington Times reporter Larry Witham teamed up to duplicate Leuba’s study in an effort to determine if scientists’ religious beliefs have changed much over the last 65 years. Larson and Witham found that 40% of American scientists still believe in a personal God

I guess this all depends on which source you choose to believe.  I believe in God, and in the end it is a choice to either believe in God or not believe in God. 

Kittyrn