American Atheist Dancers in U.S. generally worse than . . .
jablake
American God Believing (Theist) Dancers in U.S.?
"The sorry state of American atheists, then, may have nothing to do with their lack of religious belief. It may instead be the result of their outsider status within a highly religious country where many of their fellow citizens, including very vocal ones like Schlessinger, find them immoral and unpatriotic. Religion may not poison everything, but it deserves part of the blame for this one." http://www.slate.com/id/2203614/pagenum/…
Seems like almost all the dancer that I know are Christians . . . but, at the more elite expensive clubs the very few dancers who were atheist seemed to have lower morals (yes, one man's freedom fighter is another's terrorist) than the Christians.
Maybe the question should be reframed. Do you want your dancer to believe in God?
I hate to say it, but yes I'd rather they believe in God even though I think the whole religion thing is horrible. The reason, I think, is that generally the dancer will have a greater innocence or stupid hopefulness. Doesn't mean those qualities aren't available in the atheist model, but I just haven't seen it.
"The sorry state of American atheists, then, may have nothing to do with their lack of religious belief. It may instead be the result of their outsider status within a highly religious country where many of their fellow citizens, including very vocal ones like Schlessinger, find them immoral and unpatriotic. Religion may not poison everything, but it deserves part of the blame for this one." http://www.slate.com/id/2203614/pagenum/…
Seems like almost all the dancer that I know are Christians . . . but, at the more elite expensive clubs the very few dancers who were atheist seemed to have lower morals (yes, one man's freedom fighter is another's terrorist) than the Christians.
Maybe the question should be reframed. Do you want your dancer to believe in God?
I hate to say it, but yes I'd rather they believe in God even though I think the whole religion thing is horrible. The reason, I think, is that generally the dancer will have a greater innocence or stupid hopefulness. Doesn't mean those qualities aren't available in the atheist model, but I just haven't seen it.
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zorro
Sadly, it didn't surprise me that U.S. atheists could be viewed as slimeballs compared the U.S. theists.
Now, agnostics regardless of national origin on the other hand are generally top tier! ;) It is just difficult to find them-----dang atheists and theists get all the attention.
ARMED with the new information from the Slate article I will now query these strippers a little more closely if only for educational purposes.
Probably the wildest are Catholic - I mean, the RCC is the only church in the world that requires its schoolgirls to dress like strippers. I mean, what's up with that?!
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Normally, I'm interested in whether they're a believer first. A believer meaning a believer in a God or Gods. It isn't that unusual to hear God is the greatest and then ask about their religion to learn that they don't believe in the Church. It shouldn't come as a surprise that people can love the Bible or God and yet take a very dim view of the Church; chained to government, and or power. It is the old maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I don't know about more honest, but more giving and nicer people. :)
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jablake: The only agnostic I've ever met was a PEDO who tried to drug me when I made the mistake of hanging out with him when I was younger...
That being said, I DO agree with your view of the church, but there are MANY very good people in the church, and they usually mean well...usually...
Besides...if I want an argument I'll just stay HOME.
I have had a number of interesting talks with dancers on many subjects, and both of the fore mentioned ones included. My ATF and I disagree on most everything, but that doesn't change our relationship.
Christians AND Atheists are trying to LEGISLATE morality when THAT is NOT what the laws were made for. They were simply made to Protect the RIGHTS of the people, not enforce Moral Viewpoints on Others.