dhardline:
Will I say Nigerian atheist or atheist in general are a funny lot. How do you desire to have a 'decent' atheist as a girl friend?
Like who are you to require a standard for her when nothing rules her?
Or do you not know God gave man commandments on how to live life and be 'decent' and once God is removed man is free to make up his own rules as he lives and nothing becomes out of place for him. So just go ahead a marry any atheist you come across, she can decide to have 10 husband's and it's not out of place, she can decide to sleep with animals and it's still not out of place for her. She is ruled by nothing just as you claim you are too and hence free to do as she wills

NeckingNgulping:


Yeah, bro, all you have said are religious dogmatists' problems that i just can't wrap my head around. They're probably even more repulsive than atheists, at least to most of us.

A close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know they're locked up.

About your last paragraph, i find it so hilarious. It's a truth they can't deny.

leye4u:



Who created the moral values you talking about...is it the govt? Outside of religion,the word morality doesn't exist,it's only a figment of your imagination...lol

Asour:


There are no good people. Just decent ones.
Only God is good.

Buliwyf:


Wetin we go do na? If we leave them to run rampant here hoping they will check Google later they will just end up perpetuating foolishness in the name of religion. You need to refute their claims intelligently not because of them only but because of other impressionable people that will read the brain-rot they wrote and think it is a sound argument because no one demonstrated an ability to refute it.

dhardline:


You can go ahead and call me all that you want still does not change the fact that you really have so much that you are yet to understand about my statement. Do you think those who sleep with animals feel they are in the wrong? Or do you think those who go ahead to have a sex change feel they are in the wrong or the average Joe who lies to get what he wants think he's in the wrong. You really need the learn the nature of man and he's capabilities, how man naturally seeks to live a life in which he gives no account to anyone. How what you regard to be 'morals' can become really fluid in the mind of a man who has nothing governing his mind.

P. S. I am a Christian!

BobbieZion:


God is not a Man.......take it or leave it.

If i don't believe in anything then i am worse than an animal.
That means all i will do is eat, shit and sleep?

NeckingNgulping:
I'm an atheist, and I found that I'm incapable of dating women who are particularly religious. I could go out on a date with a religious woman, and that's usually solely by merit of me pretending the whole time as though I'm truly in for it.

Since long term relationship with these women would have necessitated that i make pretence a hobby, logic sets in and we inevitably part ways.

In a highly religious country like ours, it's quite hard to find a woman who's an atheist as me, let alone a decent one.

dhardline:
Will I say Nigerian atheist or atheist in general are a funny lot. How do you desire to have a 'decent' atheist as a girl friend?
Like who are you to require a standard for her when nothing rules her?
Or do you not know God gave man commandments on how to live life and be 'decent' and once God is removed man is free to make up his own rules as he lives and nothing becomes out of place for him. So just go ahead a marry any atheist you come across, she can decide to have 10 husband's and it's not out of place, she can decide to sleep with animals and it's still not out of place for her. She is ruled by nothing just as you claim you are too and hence free to do as she wills.

Nosayer:


Really? So many comments on this Nairaland that attempt to show philosophical Ideologies without any depth.

If there is no one setting moral standard, then, morality is objective. And if morality is objective, then it's supposed to be voluntary. Isn't that the argument for a lot of sexual-related issues we have around.

As for the conscience, how do humans have conscience when they're just higher animals? Who gave them the conscience?

Nosayer:


You dey mind am ni? He wants us to know he's an atheist because of the presupposition (which is false) that atheists are usually brillant.

The present Nigeria is a country where a lot of people (educated and illiterate) are trying to get rid of the idea of gods so that they can do what they like. Nigerian girls as at this time, play the front row in this.

kingxsamz:


Like he said, if you need religion to prevent you from sleeping with animals, you're sick.

uche40:


Lol. If atheism is a religion, then I guess silence is a sound .

Namdio:


I think you're mistaking a person without any guiding principles for a person who doesn't believe in God. Your view of man seems very biased, a thing that easily happens to people too clouded by religious dogmas. Take a look around you and you'll realize that a lot of people are innately good, they want to help others if they can, and while there are a few bad apples, a lot more people are good hearted.

But the thing however is that they are not likely to do things if it doesn't benefit them. And this is a trait that is in everyone.

While I don't agree with the stance that there is no God, I do have to say that the speed and manner in which heavily religious people disparage others who don't agree with the views is quite unfitting. The goal of religion is to bring one closer to God, and as far as all can see, God is very open minded (if not all these atheist for don die), and I feel like that is a standard worth emulating.

In fact, this is a trait exhibited by a lot of high standing religious people. They have a breath of mind that is truly wide.

P.S. I'm not saying the atheist are any better, some of them can be truly bigoted as well.

kingxsamz:


It's not even about cultural values. It's acknowledging the fact that those things bring pain to other people. It's just as simple as that.

dhardline:


Do you really believe the bolded deep down, even as a Nigerian ! Let me remind you of the savage nature of man, look back to the end Sars riots. How we saw even the average Joe rushing into malls just to steal what does not belong to them. How people looted trucks carrying goods, warehouses etc. This is just a tip of what man is capable of if presented with the right circumstances. So the bolded statement is total fallacy.

cayorday89:

I have no issues with what you wrote except that even the so called religious folks you are trying to defend are not any better as most are guilty of all that you listed there.


Except we want to deceive ourselves, it's better you deal with people based on their personality irrespective of their religious affiliations to avoid dissappoinment. Religion helps to curtail all that you put up there but an individual has his or her own mind which most times takes precedent over spirituality.

Peterrio:
Some might not be very religious, but their thought patterns are still warped in religion.

The very religious ones can even be a challenge to Christian guys

One thing that amazes me from time to time is that they can partake freely in fornication and adultery, while holding the religion very tight

Babysho:


Lol this is how Europeans sold Africans. They told us that we’re wild animals without the Ten Commandments and then proceeded side by side, the European churches and their govt enslaved African people for hundreds of years. What happened to their moral compass? Open your head

suicidesheep:


That’s your own believe, they are good people just as they are bad people. Don’t try to change the word to something else, God is good? Lol, I wonder if you’ve read the Old Testament

dhardline:


Then you still do not understand your nature as a person! These arguments are basic and I'm just so surprised that so many people do not even understand these simple principles. Young man/woman, you are capable of the worst evil you can think of if the perfect circumstances presents itself. The only thing that keeps you right now from doing it is what is known as the 'common Grace of God'. Just a little brainwashing in your music, movies, books, news etc and a man who has not God but thinks he has morals will dance to the tune of what is being propagated irrespective of what it maybe. We easily forget as a people that the same morals we think Africans had before the coming of the Europeans allowed then to kill twins, bury men alive with kings and preyed on the weak in the society. Y'all need to wake up really.
Maybe I'll have to explain how standards work! Who knows.

Asour:


It's not my opinion. See attached.

People DO GOOD deeds but they aren't INHERENTLY good.
Only God's truly good.
I hope you don't find out the hard way.

kingxsamz:


accepted human sacrifice, ordered a man to slaughter his son to prove loyalty to him,

kingxsamz:

Please let me ask you.
Is it good to order men to slaughter children and babies? Give a direct answer and don't go through Corners.

Asour:

No. It's not good. Why do you ask?

LadyExcellency:
Imagine acclaimed Atheists praying to an unknown God when the bus they are traveling with somersaults.

There are no Atheists in Nigeria. Humanist - Yes but the denial of the existence of a supreme being is out of hatred for religious people.

An Atheist and you believe in the intervention of your ancestors in your difficult situations. Continue the lies.

kingxsamz:


Man, you need to stop explaining yourself because it's almost as if you're typing in parables.
Humans have always had morals before the invention of whatever it is you believe in.
You dont need laws, prison, religion, bible or a god before you know you shouldn't do certain things.
Even inside that your Bible, the Christian god commanded men to slaughter babies, accepted human sacrifice, ordered a man to slaughter his son to prove loyalty to him, forcefully hardened a man's heart so he could have an excuse to kill the first born of every child in a country, sent bears to devour children, made a bet with his own enemy to kill his devoted follower's children just to prove a point, commanded men to capture people's lands and keep the women and girls for themselves, gave instructions to slaves on how to be obedient, drowned millions of people because he was annoyed.

Bro, you, a Christian of all people should be the last person talking about morals abeg.