# Time: Can Atheists Be Parents? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 26, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675 "2009-08-26T14:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/1 "2009-08-26T14:39:35Z")
wow! > **[Can Atheists Be Parents?](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877155,00.html)** > > After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark > decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes > were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no... ---
**Author:** ![Maksim2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dec6dc/32.png) [@Maksim2000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Maksim2000)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/2 "2009-08-26T14:47:16Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Pass\_McGass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pass_mcgass/32/7616_2.png) [@Pass\_McGass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pass_McGass)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/3 "2009-08-26T14:50:50Z")
Goddamnit. ---
**Author:** ![ILC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilc/32/5337_2.png) [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/4 "2009-08-26T14:54:36Z")
ouch… lets hope they go about this the right way… I would hate to see a US supreme court ruling against them and set precedence for the future ☹ which looks grim being that the age of the justices and who appointed them ☹ (GWB) ---
**Author:** ![Cavi\_Mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cavi_mike/32/5217_2.png) [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/5 "2009-08-26T14:55:54Z")
LOL @ America ---
**Author:** ![RedGoober4Life](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redgoober4life/32/7610_2.png) [@RedGoober4Life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedGoober4Life)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/6 "2009-08-26T14:59:19Z")
how long before they tell you which supreme being? ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/7 "2009-08-26T15:13:07Z")
Jesus H. Fucking Christ… that is stupid ---
**Author:** ![klug](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/klug/32/5222_2.png) [@klug](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/klug)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/8 "2009-08-26T15:21:39Z")
that’s ridiculous. another “left up to interpretation” ---
**Author:** ![Vrooom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vrooom/32/7198_2.png) [@Vrooom](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vrooom)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/9 "2009-08-26T15:22:42Z")
:picard: ---
**Author:** ![burnt\_toast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnt_toast/32/7518_2.png) [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/10 "2009-08-26T15:23:50Z")
:picard: ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/11 "2009-08-26T15:30:07Z")
What the fuck’s a pantheist? ---
**Author:** ![lsvtechatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@lsvtechatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/lsvtechatch)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/12 "2009-08-26T15:50:57Z")
They believe that god is in everything and everyone, if I remember correctly. And this is absolutely ridiculous, I can’t see this surviving the supreme court. ---
**Author:** ![Toda\_Party](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/toda_party/32/7354_2.png) [@Toda\_Party](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Toda_Party)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/13 "2009-08-26T15:55:26Z")
lol wow ---
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/14 "2009-08-26T15:57:43Z")
if this gets thrown out of the supreme court I have no faith in the justice system. pun not intended but appropriate ---
**Author:** ![Karter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/15 "2009-08-26T16:01:58Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > What the fuck’s a pantheist? A person who dosent believe in pants. this is retarded, you shouldnt have to hump a fiction novel to adopt kids. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/16 "2009-08-26T16:29:21Z")
> [@Just Karter](#): > > this is retarded, you shouldnt have to hump a fiction novel to adopt kids. This. Well said Justkarter, I’m… impressed. ---
**Author:** ![HotRodKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hotrodkid/32/7609_2.png) [@HotRodKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HotRodKid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/17 "2009-08-26T16:47:39Z")
god this country is fucked up. leave it to new jersey to find a way to shit on people for making a decision everyone in this country is SUPPOSED to be allowed to make without being descriminated for but :tup: to them moving out of new jersey, i can only hope that one day … somehow … NYC crashes into NJ and they both go to the bottom of the ocean ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/18 "2009-08-26T17:02:29Z")
Monotheism is so 2nd millenium. :rollseyes: ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/19 "2009-08-26T17:40:34Z")
> **[Pantheism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism)** > > Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-things compose as all-encompassing, immanent god or that theism is all and all is theism. Pantheist belief does not recognize a distinct personal anthropomorphic god and instead characterize a broad range of doctrines differing in forms of relationships between reality and divinity. Pantheism was popularized in Western culture as a theology and philosophy based on the work of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza,:... God is nature and vice versa I guess. ---
**Author:** ![dawn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dawn/32/7209_2.png) [@dawn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dawn)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/20 "2009-08-26T22:46:08Z")
So any slutty scumbag loser fuck in America can have multiple kids with multiple people, and get goverment money to support said kids, but this family can’t adopt a child because of their religious beliefs? Ugh. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675.md?page=2)