RE: Is atheism ever a faith?
October 23, 2008 at 5:56 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2008 at 6:11 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 23, 2008 at 12:57 pm)chatpilot Wrote: I understand you perfectly and you are 100 percent correct.I have also read the book of Mormon and have come to the determination that it is nothing more than a plagiarized version of the Bible.Alot of the stories are similar the only things that change are the characters names and the places but the circumstances are pretty much the same.You have read my tag line at the bottom of all my messages right?Trust me dealing with religious folks through the use of reason is like talking (administering medicine) to the dead.
Yeah, I guess though, if they ever DO lose their faith, they'll remember our comments (or whatever the scientific arguments by whoever the Atheists they talked to were). And that could be of some help to fall back on. I don't think the efforts are wasted. Anyway I find it interesting and enjoy administering medicine to the dead sometimes funnily enough (in the metaphorical sense of course!)
I believe you can learn from anything.
I enjoy these debates even if I'm arguing against a faith-head...even if only for the entertainment...I dunno I find it interesting, and it helps me find even more holes in their arguments, strengthening my own argument but usually only very slightly. But strengthening nonetheless.
I'm just testing [1, 2, 3]. I find Atheism to be a journey, but only when its based on evidence and probability. If Atheism is instead based on (pretty much) merely an intuition, in my experience thats more like an adrenaline rush that's good for a while but potentially unstable and unsatisfying and can result in some pretty serious complications. And after you've learnt the more scientific way, you realise that rush wasn't half as good as scientific wonder is.
