atheists do not celebrate new year's day as they do not believe in years. i do not share their lack of belief, but i respect it. it takes all types of people to make the world turn
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There is only ONE questions all atheist will answer the same.
YOU- "How many gods are you convinced of?"
ATHEIST- "Zero."
Whatever else you think about atheist is a separate question. Earth doesn't need any gods or magic to orbit the sun. Never met an atheist who thought otherwise.
Atheist is the opposite of Theist. Celebrating New Years is not a religious activity. It's a celebration that Earth made one more revolution around sun. It doesn't take a Theist to celebrate that.
When I make a sarcastic comment to a friend, they know if it's made out of hate, anger or in jest. The facial expression gives it away. But, I've gotten in trouble with just text forcing a reply with 'that's not what I meant'. Perhaps I should make more use of emojis. Isn't that why they are there?
So, the correct counter is to go with your kneejerk reaction and not take the ten seconds of clicking and scrolling though someone's profile to realize that you're responding to an obvious joke?
The joke is that the modern (julian and then gregorian) calendar was created with when jesus was born as the starting point. Thus the completion of a revolution around the sun at this time is a celebration of one more year since the birth of christ. Somebody who is against all theism would not do it
We celebrate it, but not for religion. How about the Mayans, Aztecs, etc. They were not Christians. The sun cycle predates Christ by 3K years. Today, many don't celebrate New Year's as a religion based thing. It's just one more resetting of the calendar & excuse to get drunk.🤪
I mean, why do we have to revolve around the sun every year? Is the sun really that needy? That starved for attention? I say we look around and explore our other options.
If only atheists cared about politics as much as they cared about not celebrating new years. Maybe we'd have universal health care, or like a really big tower in Des Moines.
I fail to see why an atheist objects to new year’s. Annual cycles are built into nature, pick a day to mark the passage of years. That’s what all civilizations did.
Not sure if you’re being serious or not (I have no idea who you are)… But if you are, have you ever actually tried asking an atheist what they believe? It might just save you from sounding like a complete idiot. Just saying.
we must reach across the aisle and respect the Anno Dominists on their very important day. there’s an old man turning into a naked baby and a giant ball. I don’t understand it, but I respect it.
he got it from the part of his brain that tells him to lie on the internet because he expects the audience to understand that it's a lie, as a way to elicit a humorous reaction out of the reader
The only thing that matters is the direction the world turns. Thankfully Trump will be guiding it in the right direction, with a huge emphasis on our lord and savior Jesus. We are a country founded on Christian beliefs, and it’s time we remember that and put God first!
The first time round I read this as "anesthesiologists", and, despite my confusion, I just took it as an incredible joke I must not be smart enough to get right now.
Instead, the joke is me. I don't have my glasses on and I might be dyslexic. More a 8-
I’m a lapsed atheist so I still go to church on holidays and such, but this practice of making years go higher and higher is obviously unsustainable to any thinking person
Given the quality of "scientists" these days, this does not surprise me. They probably had a professor who stated peak number as a fact and never questioned it.
What the fuck are you talking about? Are years supposed to be "believed"?
They're a conventional time measure science refers to.
Not religion: science.
From what I can tell, atheists don't like using the terms BC Before Christ & AD After Christs Death. They like using the terms BCE Before the Common Era & CE Common Era. Which, it should be called BCE & CE because the world doesn't revolve around the dogmatic man-made cult called Christianity
Everyone needs more ritual in their lives. I myself stay up all night and get shit-faced every time my car's odometer rolls over a new 1000-mile counter. Three zeros means anything is possible!
Atheism has nothing to do with New Year's. It's not a religious holiday and as an atheist I celebrate. I'm confused by what you mean celebrating years. Maybe you're confusing it with Jehovah Witness as they don't celebrate anything.
I say we found a new Mercury-based religion so we can observe shorter years, this one especially sucked and it would be nice to get through shitty years quicker
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YOU- "How many gods are you convinced of?"
ATHEIST- "Zero."
Whatever else you think about atheist is a separate question. Earth doesn't need any gods or magic to orbit the sun. Never met an atheist who thought otherwise.
I guess Poe's Law will never die.
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You forgot that part.
Instead, the joke is me. I don't have my glasses on and I might be dyslexic. More a 8-
We didn’t have any vaccines and we were just fine
They're a conventional time measure science refers to.
Not religion: science.