We have a handful in the next county over...some have been using the same church building for 150+ years

The pulpit of one of them has a bullet scar from the Indian Wars in the 1870s

wow

Nearby graves go all the way back to the civil war

A handful of CSA buried there

My wife went to St Peter's when she was in grad school, construction was completed in 1626, and her church in Beijing was about that old, rebuilt several times though

I love that kind of history. Buildings older than this country that're still standing.

Same

Oldest place I've been in was a Buddhist temple in Chongqing

Been to all the stuff in St Augustine also, plus an 800 year old ruined castle in Guizhou

Crazy to think I've walked the same footsteps as people from a thousand years ago, possibly someone famous, like an emperor

Yeah, I know right

Sort of reminds me of the final line of that silly movie Wanted. "What the fuck have you done lately?"

Conquerors, pioneers, lords, etc have stood where I've stood. I'm working as a CAD slave in furniture lol

And there’s good old Saint John’s Church and Antioch Church.

Also, if anything, Atheism is the losing side of history because societies that become dominated by secular ideologies rapidly become authoritarian hellholes where no one wins.

Yep

Either they change when they have no other option (China) or they implode (Russia)

The executioner diary I was talking about, it's a really good, almost religious book. If the prisoner couldn't read, they were taught to read and preached to before their execution day so that even though they were gonna die for their crimes, they still had a chance to save their souls

This showed up on my Youtube for some reason. This show is hilarious. Actually how most "Does God exist?" type arguments turn out. As far as the simple concepts being argued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-Cf6O0ogI

This is just for the lolz, not trying to bring up an argument by the way.

S H I B.

Also, what do you think would happen if you put all of the Atheists in the world on their own continent?

That scene from Event Horizon...

lol 😄

Seriously... Probably similar to like Bioshock 1.

All the athiests in the world forcefully relocated to their own continent? Australia 2 or the 4th Reich

At least after all the lol god is fake people settle down

Where as you do the same thing to all the religious people in the same area you get the middle east untill all the muslims get killed off. So I'm not sure what you're getting at.

More along the lines of "anarchy" or "brutal authoritarianism."

My point being is that Atheists have a very hard time forming a society because they have an inherent lack of belief.

And theist have a hard time melding with some other theists

A lack of belief is not very good when you want people to agree upon a system of belief to make society possible.

You put a bunch of people from all over the world in one spot its going to be a shit show whether they are atheists or theists

Unless reading the bible also magically make you able to understand one another.

LOL wot?

I'm an agnostic atheist.

(I don't know, but I think there isn't.)

So does that mean I am inherently uncivilized?

That has got to be the stupidest shit I have ever heard. You sit on a high horse because you worship a diety.