Category talk:Atheist Wikipedians

message: Silence, I see you revised my edit.  You seem to be confusing Atheism with Agnosticism or possibly some flavor of New Age philosophy.
What makes you think that an Atheist can be religious, much less "spiritual" ?  They are nowhere similar. GeorgeC 00:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spiritual and religious Atheists? 

message: :", which includes a Hubble Deep Field image to depict the vastness, emptiness, promise, and beauty of the physical universe"
Huh? What's that got to do with atheism? If anything it seems like a deeply theist image to me. Angr 14:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Many atheists do use that as a symbol, I've seen them do so. I think the message is "this image shows the Universe as vast and fascinating on its own without God" as the image does not contain a representation of God. (Unless you take the Pantheistic or Panentheist position that the Universe is God or is a conscious being equivalent to God or is just inherently a representation of God) Not being an atheist myself I don't really get that, I mean an image of a beautiful unoccupied house doesn't mean houses are better off without people or that no one owns it or whatever, but I've seen it.--T. Anthony 09:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I really fail to see how this could be a "deeply theist image." Looking far into space is like looking back in time. Images such as the Hubble Deep Field prove to us the universe is billions of years old. This clearly contradicts the age of the universe inferred in many of our religious texts, but even if one weren't to interpret these texts quite so literally, it still begs the question--if our universe is so so old, why were we only created now? Did God make the universe 13.5 billion years ago but wait until just recently (on a relative scale) to make us? meinsla talk 17:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hubble Deep Field image? 

message: This category has itself as a subcategory. I think that this should be changed. --Propower 06:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How? I have no idea how you fix it and I've tried.--T. Anthony 00:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Subst the atheist templates, then remove their categories. -Silence 03:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No self-referencing categories 

message: It's funny how the number of Wikipedians who list themselves as atheistic currently exceeds the number of Wikipedians who list themselves as Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and theistic combined. :) --Alexc3 (talk) 01:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Non-atheist total = 2569
So perhaps the atheists aren't the "winners" after all. Though, it is worth noting those who consider themselves Christian/Jewish/Muslim may also list themselves as a theist and therefore be double counted. And as long as we're counting theists be might as well include Nontheistic Wikipedians along with the atheists as well... meinsla talk 07:43, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Why does it matter?  Nutiketaiel (talk) 11:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha, uh, well it doesn't really, to me anyway. meinsla talk 11:31, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it really matters.  It's just "funny".  In real-life aren't we in the gross minority?  Perhaps we are drawn to wikipedia because we care about spreading knowledge? NickCT (talk) 18:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

text: The reason it matters should be obvious if people are influenced by their beliefs. Since consensus determines content and guidelines, Wikipedia will more and more be perceived as having a secularist bias if some secularists (not all) band together to remove content about religious phenomena that make them feel uncomfortable. Jzsj (talk) 12:59, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funny 

message: My userpage says I'm in the category "Atheist Wikipedians" even though I'm not listed.  I was wondering if it was because I added a bunch of anti-religious/non-theist userboxes, but I don't see any of my userboxes in the list.  I don't want to be on the list but I was interested in why this was happening or if it had happened to anyone else. Beggarsbanquet (talk) 03:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Your userpage has this template, which places your username into the category "Atheist Wikipedians". Abdullais4u (talk) 19:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't understand this... 

message: …as to the depth of thought that goes into such things, that in an apparent attempt to use an allusion to science for support, many of the tags presented include a nonsensical image more relevant to spirographic art than to science (in particular, the science of atomic structure). Perhaps wait until you have thought about matters as much—and as deeply—as Christopher Hitchens or Stephen Hawking (or Francis Collins or Clive Staples Lewis or Fritz Schaeffer for that matter) before grandstanding a mis-illustrated persecutive before a thinking world. Just a thought. 50.129.227.141 (talk) 22:55, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: It is telling