[QUOTE=Lobohan]
I don’t the the religious should be killed. I do think they should be viewed as complete weirdos akin to those who believe the moon landing was faked. I find it amazing that there could be a strongly religious president for instance. It’s crazy to trust someone who doesn’t care about proof with that kind of power.
Believing and structuring your life around nonsensical stories that have no proof to back them up is not a sign of strong moral value. It’s a sign that you don’t question things and accept them without thinking.
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I was taking about religion with one of my colleagues from China. He asked me if most people at the high-tech company we worked for really believed in God. I said yes. He then said “But not the managers, right”?
[QUOTE=Lobohan]
I wasn’t talking to you. You are a stupid fuck
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I am indeed.
Your opinion and wild guesses about whether I’m a believer are worthless for they have no bearing on my arguments either way. Ad hominem attack without substantiation. You fail
[QUOTE=DanBlather]
Well most of the world thinks that they doknow, so by your reasoning you are arrogant for believing differently.
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[QUOTE=DanBlather]
Well most of the world thinks that they doknow, so by your reasoning you are arrogant for believing differently.
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Are you crazy?
I am the pacific voice of tolerance and openmindedness, under the infamous assault of thought-nazis, trying to drown the fire of truth in my candid words.
Who am I to dare tell it like it is? How am I to imply they might have succumbed to the comfort of simplistic thought?
“Arrogant! Stupid fuck!” they cry while my heart aches with the love I wish to give them. And because of that love, I can do nothing but forgive them everything unconditionally and love them even more for the flaws that make us brothers.
Trust me, it is hard to remain as humble as I have during all this. I didn’t think it was even humanly possible until I did it but maybe that was just my humility speaking.
Trust me, it is hard to remain as humble as I have during all this. I didn’t think it was even humanly possible until I did it but maybe that was just my humility speaking.
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I have no bones in this fight; I haven’t even read the discussion. What I do know is that your last post doesn’t sound very humble. FWIW, I’m Catholic.
[QUOTE=Autolycus]
I have no bones in this fight; I haven’t even read the discussion. What I do know is that your last post doesn’t sound very humble. FWIW, I’m Catholic.
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Your opinion and wild guesses about whether I’m a believer are worthless for they have no bearing on my arguments either way. Ad hominem attack without substantiation. You fail
Put up a fight dammit…this is fucking depressing.
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[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
(By the way, are you planning to respond to my post #103?)
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No, not really. I had obviously been joking, but it turns out that tempers are high here, and so I just let your response stand. It was pretty much the same way I would have responded myself had I taken it seriously.
I don’t know how to explain it without sounding condescending, but the Red Guard that destroyed thousands of churches, mosques, and temples? They worked for Mao. And Mao was the guy who said (in his red Quotations book) that religious people (among others) were counter-revolutionaries. You can find his book online easily, I’m sure. If I recall, it was in the second or third chapter. And so, the cause was that Mao thought religion was dangerous to Chinese society, and the effect was the destruction of religious structures and communities, and the “re-education” or elimination of religious people through the Cultural Revolution.
Let’s be clear. I’m not discussing any atheist sins. As you know, I define sin as the obstruction of goodness. There is plently of sin to go around regardless of our intellectual conclusions about God. I believe that sin comes from the heart, not the brain. (Heart as in the essential man, the most vital part.) So neither “I believe in God” nor “I don’t believe in God” have any bearing on how sinful a man may be.
[QUOTE=Lobohan]
I don’t the the religious should be killed. I do think they should be viewed as complete weirdos akin to those who believe the moon landing was faked. I find it amazing that there could be a strongly religious president for instance. It’s crazy to trust someone who doesn’t care about proof with that kind of power.
Believing and structuring your life around nonsensical stories that have no proof to back them up is not a sign of strong moral value. It’s a sign that you don’t question things and accept them without thinking.
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Whether it makes sense to you or not, there are plenty of religious people who question their beliefs, think about them, and end up believing them.
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink]
Whether it makes sense to you or not, there are plenty of religious people who question their beliefs, think about them, and end up believing them.
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By deciding to ignore the facts and logic, because NOT ignoring facts and logic means giving up their beliefs. Being religious requires either a lack of rationality, denial of rationality, or ignorance.
[QUOTE=gonzomax]
I will be back later. I have to go attend my evil atheists mass. So much atheistic planning to do.
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Where do I subscribe to the newsletter, get the corresponding starters’ kit and how come I’ve been ignored after all these years of being a Professional Atheist[sup]®[/sup]?
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
Being religious requires either a lack of rationality, denial of rationality, or ignorance.
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Speaking of Mao, maybe you should just kill us.
[QUOTE=gonzomax]
I will be back later. I have to go attend my evil atheists mass. So much atheistic planning to do.
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Tell them that the twelve year old girl I kidnapped hasn’t delivered the baby yet, so we’ll have to wait for next week for the Bastard Child Sacrifice™. I won’t be able to make it to the mass because work is crazy at the library. I’ve got hundreds more books to check for positive references to Christianity. We don’t want to burn the wrong ones after all!
