Do Atheists ever say

it's because they like quoting the Qu'ran

99% have Church funerals and were wed in Church.

We also say "Jesus wept"

HTH

Dealing with the estate of my sister, one thing required to do is to go to another solicitor, with yours, to be witnessed swearing on the bible.

I was uncomfortable with that as it is meaningless but I had been told I could just "affirm" (whatever that is).

I told the woman I wasn't happy to swear on the bible and I believe there is another procedure.

She said she never had anyone refusing to swear on the bible, and joked "well there's only us three here".

So what a load of bloody hypocrites, are the two thirds of none believers, who just go ahead with it.

As a final protest I turned the book upside down.

I admire you aunty for refusing. Obviously a man of principle.

I took the affirmation in court when on Jury service, was the only one out of twelve.

Such activities are the last remaining relics of Britain as a Christian state - thank God

Well if we said "That Halibut was good enough for Jehovah", we'd run the risk of a stoning.

Aunty - Jesus says (in the Bible ) NOT to take an oath - "let your yes be yes and your no be no..." An honest man doesn't need to take oaths.

a poll in america  voted atheists the most untrustworthy people in the the country....people trusted murderers rapist and criminals more..

rapists*

As the Senate is full of 3 of the above, i'm not surprised poor ol' atheists get a bad press..

Interestingly, seeing as this is an area of West Yorkshire,  with more than a few Muslims, I presume she wan't including them in the count.

No doubt they have  a copy of "The Koran"(Qur'an) to hand!

Now if she had allowed me to swear on a copy of "Country Life" magazine, that would have been ok with me!

ThunderRoad
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    09 Sep 14 17:34

Such activities are the last remaining relics of Britain as a Christian state - thank God

I doubt that very much.

The mechanics may be a bit rusty after not being used for a while. There will probably be a degree of self-consciousness but today, up and down the country, ordinary people will pray to a sensed God and apply their hopes to an imagined Heaven, having been visited by death or news of imminent death.

It will give them comfort and hope and a sliver of something good to cling onto - a sliver that the clamour for provable fact (as if this is all that matters)by the strident atheists, would decry as stupidity.

But they will pray, despite what the hipsters would have us believe.

I was uncomfortable with that as it is meaningless but I had been told I could just "affirm" (whatever that is).

In a courtroom it's the atheist method of swearing on the bible to tell the truth, which is all meaningless bollocks.

If you're up for something that isn't proven yet (not caught bang to rights)  you're not going tel the truth and plead guilty and get 7 years for robbery when there's a chance you'll get off.

But they will pray, despite what the hipsters would have us believe.

This is no doubt true.

Put 400 atheists on a plane over the Atlantic.

Now knock out the engines.

I bet there aren't 400 atheists on board just before it hits the water.

which has far more to do with stage 3 of the Kübler-Ross model than a sudden epiphany.

call.........the 400 still wont be going to heaven or hell ......so it wont matter who they call out for

No but we do thank God, for making us Atheists.

Amen to that.