Ludlow, I calculate hate don't play a real big role in your life at all.
That was a compliment, son. You're good folk.
That was a compliment, son. You're good folk.
Why People Hate Atheists
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Should we respect anti-white beliefs? What about misandrist beliefs? Heterophobic beliefs which justify hatred of ordinary, heterosexual people? How about Global Warming denial? Suppose we decided that we should respect all of these beliefs. What would that say about us?
They're just like cyclists and Left-wingers.
Yup. The same one that made you an automous blob of matter and energy to chose your own path in life with evolutionary useless emotions and all.
The logic is: You exist, therefore a big hairy beardy dude in a nightshirt sitting on a cloud is going to torture you forever if you jack off ('scuse me, in your case it'd be "jill off").
Be afraid! Be VERY afraid!
The good news is that you can gain admission to the Eternal Disneyland by giving your local preacher a thousand bucks and sucking him off.
Now, really, is that too much to pay for Eternal Disneyland?
What big hairy guy with a beard? The one in tales that simplifies an energy with the capacity to trigger sacs of matter into autonomous entities?
Indeed. I've been full circle on the existence of God. I'm not a pre-bronze age goat herder without a knowledge of matter and energy that needs "tales" of a bearded guy to humanize these energies that create and alter dimensions.
I await your evidence.
If you don't feel like providing it, that's fine too. Near as I can tell, you don't use your belief as a reason to justify yourself for being a dick to others. In which case I have no interest, positive or negative, in your belief, faith, whatever you want to call it.
You make the claim, you provide the evidence.
You know that it's impossible to prove a negative. You learned that in your scientific education. So I'll just conclude that you're being a butthurt internet dick at the moment, and let it pass. Nighty-night.
As I said, I got no problem with your belief, seeing as how you don't use it as a reason to beat up other folks.
But I would point out that, logically, the lack of evidence either way gives your belief the same truth value as Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings, or Hop on Pop.
I think that what tecum fails to understand is that belief in nothing still takes great faith in totally unprovable ideas.
It not faith. It's called reason.
Faith is nothing more then the license religious people give each other to keep believing when reason fails - Sam Harris
I refuse to prove that I exist, says god. For proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing - Douglas Adams.
I don't "believe in nothing." I don't believe at all. I deal with the world around me based on verified facts. I presume that for which there is no evidence does not exist.
If you believe, i.e., hold to exist, that for which there is no evidence, then why is Christianity or Islam in any way preferable to the ravings of your nearest street-corner schizophrenic?
In answering this, please avoid logical fallacies. They fail to impress. Particularly, please avoid the appeal to popularity and the appeal to tradition.
Faith is believing what you know damn well ain't true.
--Mark Twain