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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well. I'm an atheist and I feel like I have a soul, but I guess I don't know exactly what a soul is. Most of my family are atheists. We all give back to our communities a lot and help people in need either through our careers or voluntarily. Does that mean we have souls and will be saved if we're wrong!!![/quote]

No. You have to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior in order to be saved and be granted access to the Kingdom of Heaven. You are a sinner, for we are all sinners. Repent.[/quote]

And this is why people hate Christians. Even makes me want to burn you on the stake a little bit. [/quote]

Me too. [/quote]

I don't get it.  Why would a statement of their belief make you hate Christians?  I am an atheist from a deeply religious (fundamentalist Christian) family, and it doesn't make me hate them.  It does makes me feel embarrassed for them though.  I used an analogy about Batman on one of the Religion posts, and so, if you are talking to a grown adult, whom you love and you grew up with, a person that is a great parent and has a great career, and they tell you that they believe that Batman created the world and that they pray to Batman every night, it's just uncomfortable.  It's not an eye roller because you love them, it's just you don't want to hear anymore about it because it's cray-cray.
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I think praying to Batman is weirder than praying to Jesus for this reason: many people are taught as children to pray to Jesus. Right now, it's the majority of people in the US. They hear it from their parents, in church, on TV,in the movies, etc so it becomes a very accepted, even required thing to do.

Can't say that about batman.  Anyone who prays to batman is way outside the norm.  The only thing that some people would say Jesus and Batman have in common is that neither of them have super powers  it's equally useless to pray to either of them - but they would say that about everyone - super-heros or not.[/quote]

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