It educates a few and entertains many. No more a waste of time than any other entertainment you personally don't care for.
1 Duh. But atheist Jews are still culturally Jewish and a US that was overwhelmingly culturally Jewish would look different, as JWHIA illustrates.
2 Highly variable. And some of the Christians who enjoyed the Pentecost thread said it taught them a lot about their own holiday, so again not a waste of time.
3 There are atheists, and there are annoying asshole-atheists. Please stop being the AAA kind. It's optional, really -- you don't have to do that to prove your atheist cred or anything.
Oh, but it needs to be said that i'm not "atheist." I'm agnostic: I know i know nothing for certain, and know it is all unknowable. I also know no one else knows anything for certain and can prove none of it. And i won't nit-pick details of any of it.
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It educates a few and entertains many. No more a waste of time than any other entertainment you personally don't care for.
1 Duh. But atheist Jews are still culturally Jewish and a US that was overwhelmingly culturally Jewish would look different, as JWHIA illustrates.
2 Highly variable. And some of the Christians who enjoyed the Pentecost thread said it taught them a lot about their own holiday, so again not a waste of time.
3 There are atheists, and there are annoying asshole-atheists. Please stop being the AAA kind. It's optional, really -- you don't have to do that to prove your atheist cred or anything.
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I'm agnostic: I know i know nothing for certain, and know it is all unknowable. I also know no one else knows anything for certain and can prove none of it. And i won't nit-pick details of any of it.