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Why is it that you can deprogram a religious person but you can’t deprogram an atheist?
What is it that atheists have (or don’t have) that makes it impossible to deprogram them?

Desiree, Yahoo Crazys 91 Comments [8/27/2008 7:47:23 AM]
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#655190
Haeron

A lack of need for deprogramming, maybe?

8/27/2008 7:49:25 AM
#655191
Damen

They have knowledge of how the world works.
They don't have to cling to myths that make no rational sense upon more than just a curiosity glance.

8/27/2008 7:49:40 AM
#655198
centauri

An indoctrinating religion, perhaps?

8/27/2008 7:54:39 AM
#655199
dpareja

Because it's a bit hard to deprogram when there's no programming there to deprogram... or, at least, when you get back to the hard-wired circuitry.

8/27/2008 7:55:03 AM
#655203
Waiting for God

No irrational beliefs in the supernatural that can be easily disproved by looking around at the natural world and realising the book you've been reading doesn't have a clue how things actually work.

It's along those lines.

Also, we tend and this is a generalisation, to respect evidence. Since the religious usually offer no evidence, that pretty much makes us immune to 'deprogramming'.

8/27/2008 7:56:42 AM
#655204


I wasn't aware that people were computers, Desiree.

8/27/2008 7:57:14 AM
#655208
ID82

Intelligence.

8/27/2008 8:33:39 AM
#655211
picklemonster

I thought you always tried to deprogram or "convert" atheists.

8/27/2008 8:35:24 AM
#655212
Yaezakura

See, all atheists have these built-in virus protection systems called "Common Sense" and "Acknowledgment of Reality" that make us immune to attempts by things like the dreaded Fundie Virus to screw with our programming.

8/27/2008 8:37:00 AM
#655218
Jae

Brains.

8/27/2008 8:45:55 AM
#655219
KathleenTheTerrible

... we're not Java based lifeforms?

8/27/2008 8:46:03 AM
#655228
echno-shamen

That isnt fundy, sounds more like she is pro-atheist.

8/27/2008 9:07:16 AM
#655234
kingoftheheavies

Intelligence, common sense, self-reliance...

8/27/2008 9:22:26 AM
#655237
Giveitaday

Why is it that you can deprogram a religious person but you can’t deprogram an atheist?
What is it that atheists have (or don’t have) that makes it impossible to deprogram them?

Religion

8/27/2008 9:29:18 AM
#655245
LexKitten

Tin Foil Hats!

Oh yeah, and facts and evidence and the truth.

8/27/2008 9:49:10 AM
#655249
anevilmeme

"What is it that atheists have (or don't have" that makes it impossible to deprogram them?"

What they have: reason
What they don't have: religion

8/27/2008 10:06:14 AM
#655252
God Is Real Unless Declared Integer

... we're not Java based lifeforms?

No, The matrix is programmed in APL :)

8/27/2008 10:09:13 AM
#655261
budd t

You can't deprogram common sense . You either have it or you don't .

8/27/2008 10:23:45 AM
#655270


Why have you nutters taken over Yahoo Answers with your banal proselytzing? GO TO CHURCH. READ THE BIBLE. DO ANYTHING, BUT GET THE FUCK OFF MY INTERNETS.

8/27/2008 10:32:50 AM
#655272
Ash

Another win for Richard Dawkins and the Memetics (which would be an excellent name for a rock band).

8/27/2008 10:34:55 AM
#655291
Philbert McAdamia

The constant reminders (fundies) of what religion can do to one's brain.

8/27/2008 10:49:46 AM
#655300
Alcari

Sanity.

8/27/2008 10:55:06 AM
#655307
Ray

What is it that atheists have (or don’t have) that makes it impossible to deprogram them?


They're not robots. They don't blindly follow religious teachings without THINKING about what it's teaching first. Maybe that's why. Just a wild guess.

8/27/2008 11:01:57 AM
#655334
MK

Your use of the words "deprogram" and "religious person" in conjunction like that is extremely telling.

8/27/2008 11:38:36 AM
#655336
Tired Christian

if (program_exists = True) {
Delete Program
Else
Everybody panic, we can't remove something that isn't there
End if

I knew that software class would be useful.

8/27/2008 11:42:31 AM
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