Oh fer cryin’ out loud. Do you have any effin’ familiarity with **Der Trihs’ **posting history at all? Any? I’ll give you an eensy weensy hint: I have been relying on the fundamental premise that **Der Trihs **calls religious people names for pages now in this very thread. Note carefully how many of his supporters have contradicted me.
I’ll help you out: it’s a number less than one. Take a guess why.
Give it up.
So, what has he said that is incorrect? You don’t like what he’s said, but that doesn’t make him wrong.
Sorry, do you speak english? Do you want to read my last post and try again?
So tell me, how has the meek and mild, soft and reasonable approach worked out so far for atheists over the last three thousand years?
OK, I guess I just think of “Prophet” in much the same way.
Fair enough – I too was/am supporting Dir Trihs and, if not actively refuting religion, then at least edging in my empirical agnosticism towards finding the whole proposition ever less likely. 
For a guy who claims it is better to use honey instead of vinegar you have accused me of spouting nonsense, of being an idiot, and unable to read English. So, should I do as you say, or do as you do? Oddly enough, I’m still listening.
Do you think Der Trihs has a chance of getting a national forum?
He has an international forum right here. Someone should create a poll to see how many people he has managed to convince here. Or, better yet, how many people have given up believing in god because they’ve been reading the SD.
No, not since Galileo’s time anyway. Nowadays it mostly claims to answer questions like “How does biology work?”
Well, it’s allowing the truly god-fearing peoples to inherit the Earth and all…
Yes, don’t worry, be happy. Like the nice religious man in Texas.
“Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, the base commander said Friday”.
Der Trihs’ “hate” ticks off some people on a message board. Somehow it seems less destructive than what the devout can unleash.*
*Of course, no true religious person would condone religion-inspired atrocities. We now return you to our regularly scheduled soup kitchens and friendly proselytizing activities.
Along with a poll to see how many atheists have started believing in deities because they’ve been reading the SD?
Not particularly well, but thanks for asking.
Regards,
Shodan
While the Meek and Mild Christians have the baseless hope of inheriting an incredible afterlife if they take it on the chin in this life, all we atheists get if we don’t fight back is the earth itself.
Why not? It’d be interesting if we’re all tilting at windmills here.
My views on religion are posted above. But returning to the OP
I must agree.
Yes, religion can never be more than organized superstition but you could ease up:)
The choice of god or not is an individual one. I find it easier (more comforting) to postulate that nothing is as great as Infinity and that Infinity includes me rather than to postulate a little “me” opposed to the “rest of the universe”.
Totally with you on the class war. Givem hell.
Now that would be interresting.
I can understand believers loosing their faith as they discover, bit by bit, that what they have been taught is not correct.
But, barring a fall on the road to Damascus, what could prompt someone to start believing, where before they were level-headed.
During my college years, I self-identified as agnostic.
Then I had an experience which caused me to believe, to KNOW, that God was there.
And it wasn’t dramatic. It can’t even be explained. Nothing outwardly happened.
I don’t offer this recollection to evangelize, to suggest that anyone else should believe based on an experience only I had. But at the same time, it was sufficiently convincing for me that I can’t NOT believe.
Perhaps in that sense, it WAS a road-to-Damascus thing.
Was that last sentence meant for me? If so, you’re wrong. I wasn’t talking about addressing her, as no one was talking about how one would have addressed Muhammad. When talking about Queen Silvia, it’s appropriate to refer to her as “Queen Silvia.”
Powerful he has become… the dark side I sense in him!