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maybe this has been asked before but i'm just curious. why don't you believe in anything?
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maybe this has been asked before but i'm just curious. why don't you believe in anything?
Oh I believe many things, that buses should run on time for example, or that my football team is mediocre.maybe this has been asked before but i'm just curious. why don't you believe in anything?
I'm going to have to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're simply ignorant and not actively lying here.That's correct. Atheists who practice their religion are actually blasphemers.
How so?
By not 100% disbelieving in G-d, that's why. And having some belief goes against everything Atheism stands for.
Then you fathom wrong, I can see why you would need to believe this though. It allows you the illusion of the moral high ground. It also allows you to whine "but atheism is just a religion toooo" which is just wrong (dishonest or ignorant?).I fathom the primary reason for the faith is actually intellectual and moral pride:
Being honest is a sin now?by pointing their fingers at the few Christians or Jews who fall into sin, they can direct attention away from the jaw-dropping amount of sinning they do.
Of course Darwin was a Christian, most people were in that day and age. Heck we'd only just managed to persuade the religious that killing people was wrong back then. People probably still regarded it as dangerous to "come out" with their atheism. A saint though? Is that the best you've got?They can also claim Charles Darwin as their first saint, not even knowing that Charles Darwin was a Christian and a mighty man of G-d; Darwin's father a Lutheran minister.
Indeed creationism is only held by a small minority of Christians, vocal though they may be.This they do to placate the presumed Christian or Jewish stance that evolution is a false belief. We, for the most of us, make no such claim.
maybe this has been asked before but i'm just curious. why don't you believe in anything?
Einstein claimed Atheists got there by a sort of rebellious stance
Maybe because, when people become atheist their life becomes easier and more fun than people with faith.
maybe this has been asked before but i'm just curious. why don't you believe in anything?
That's correct. Atheists who practice their religion are actually blasphemers.
How so?
By not 100% disbelieving in G-d, that's why. And having some belief goes against everything Atheism stands for.
I fathom the primary reason for the faith is actually intellectual and moral pride: by pointing their fingers at the few Christians or Jews who fall into sin, they can direct attention away from the jaw-dropping amount of sinning they do.
They can also claim Charles Darwin as their first saint, not even knowing that Charles Darwin was a Christian and a mighty man of G-d; Darwin's father a Lutheran minister.
This they do to placate the presumed Christian or Jewish stance that evolution is a false belief. We, for the most of us, make no such claim. I myself know that there's an evolutionary process to life, with G-d directing it all.
Einstein claimed Atheists got there by a sort of rebellious stance; that some people, upon being brought up Christian, will turn Atheist because they're erroneously taught in liberal institutions that Christianity (and religions in general) was a force of dissension and conflict and not one of peace. You know, a sort of misguided teenage angst. I disagree with this stance because the richarddawkins forum is cram-packed to the rafters with all sorts of immoral, unethical and rude, disrespecting posters. Misguided teenage angst cannot cause this conduct. I have to go, but
there's another reason why I disagreed with Einstein's sentiment. I'll post it tomorrow...
Maybe because, when people become atheist their life becomes easier and more fun than people with faith.
Maybe because, when people become atheist their life becomes easier and more fun than people with faith.
Holy Roller said:I disagree with this stance because the richarddawkins forum is cram-packed to the rafters with all sorts of immoral, unethical and rude, disrespecting posters.
Not only are posters like this found in the Richard Dawkins forum...we have a fair few of them here!! I wonder who I could be refering to?!?!
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Thank you for the question.
I believe in many things. I believe in being true to one's convictions and judgment. I believe in developing one's creative talents and living a productive life. I believe in pursuing self-knowledge and wisdom. I believe in earning one's own self-respect.
I believe in many things. I simply don't believe in supernatural things.
Why? Because I'm not rationally convinced that they exist. It's a matter of intellectual integrity to me.
eudaimonia,
Mark
I think atheists believe in many things, most of them self centered (like the boldened words above) while Christians are supposed to be God and other centered.
I just wish they would stop painting people of faith as lacking "intellectual integrity", "delusional", "childish" or "stupid".
It is insulting to those of us with fairly high IQs who have chosen a life of faith for our own reasons. I don't throw nasty potshots at non-believers, why should I put up with them thrown my way?
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