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Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
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Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
I hope you're all having a good day,i've been busy so wasn't online for a few days,I have a question that do we need to study religions to know that God doesn't exist,it feels so obvious to me that God doesn't exist and religions are false even thought i don't know much about any religions other than Islam,People told me that i need to research,what's there to need? religious scripts are just fiction,they have no solid logic or evidence


P.S i really hate all the Muslims now,their circular reasoning and stubbornness has twisted my mind even more lol,is it common to hate your former religion?
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire
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#2
RE: Do we need to study all the religions to that God doesn't exist?
I don't have the time or energy to put into disproving everything I've heard about, but don't believe exists. Even trying to disprove all the different deities people have come up with would be too much.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Do we need to study all the religions to that God doesn't exist?
Do we have to study all the variants of witchcraft to know it's a pile of hooey? That West African juju is all a bunch of crap! But that Santaria baby, yeah, that totally works!

If the makers of the claim can't make their case, they can all go take a walk.
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#4
RE: Do we need to study all the religions to that God doesn't exist?
I don't feel that studying religions turns people into atheists. I hear atheists often say that nothing creates more atheists than reading the bible. I don't share this belief, but it may work for some. Although, it should create many non-religious people.

Yes, I hate Catholicism, and all branches of christianity, because I was raised in it. However, I don't hate christians in general. The more religions I study, the more religions I hate.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
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RE: Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
We can't know that for sure

but honestly, at three sentences in the bible is enough to become an atheist
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RE: Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
The sensible, sceptical approach isn't about trying to prove god doesn't exist, it's about saying there is no reason to believe it does exist. Some people go further (myself included) and believe it doesn't exist, the justification usually being either lack of evidence for such an extraordinary claim, or lack of a coherent/testable definition of what god is supposed to be. That's pretty good justification. Going further to say you know it doesn't exist is harder to justify but usually unnecessary.

So no, there's really no need to consider all religions. None of them have anything beyond oral myths and story books. If they do, I'm not aware of it. And I'm sure they'd have let us know by now!

I'm comfortable just saying I have no reason to believe god does exist, just like I do with dragons, faeries, goblins etc. I don't feel the need to try and disprove them or claim I know they don't exist, there's an infinite number of things you can't prove doesn't exist. It's a waste of time. Anyone using this argument to defend god is using the argument from ignorance fallacy.

This may clarify:

http://robvalue.wix.com/atheism#!what-is-atheism/c57k

http://robvalue.wix.com/atheism#!agnosti...stic/c1xja

Personally, even if a god does exist, I don't care. I wouldn't change how I live my life. Until I actually know anything about it, I have no reason to think it affects anything.
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RE: Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
The study of religions isn't likely to get us anywhere near the truth, such as it may be, of the focal god of that religion - anymore than children's letters to Santa can tell us anything about the nature of the Jolly Old Elf.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
Quote:Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?

No...Let the shitheads who believe in such nonsense provide the evidence.  I have better things to do.
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RE: Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
Weird,

all forms of Mormon, EXCEPT the Congregation of Jehovah's Presbytery of Zion are TOTAL BULLSHIT, but that one is THE ONE TRUE FAITH !!!!


PRAISE BANEEMY !!!





( OK, I'll fess up, think about it; isn't that the mindset of ALL the sectarian schismatic Christers? And if it ain't, why daffuq they schism in the first place?)
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RE: Do we need to study all the religions to know that God doesn't exist?
No, we do not. 

To encapsulate Sagan's 'Reflections On A Grain Of Salt', consider a microgram or so of NaCl.  This speck - barely large enough to be seen with the naked eye - contains atoms.  A LOT of atoms.  A hugely mind-warpingly large number of atoms.  In fact, there are more atoms in this speck of salt than there are synapses in the human brain.  At first consideration, in order to 'know' the grain of salt, we would have to know, at a minimum, the position of each atom or chlorine and each atom of sodium.  This is more information that the human brain, or even several human brains, is capable of holding (there's actually a lot more to know, such at direction of spin, etc, of all atoms).

But human brains have the capacity to figure out rules according to which sodium and chlorine combine.  Thus, with, say, around ten bits of information, we can 'know' everything we need to know about common table salt. 

Religionists are fond of telling us that, since, we haven't been everywhere in the universe and examined - in minutest detail - all of existence, we can never be sure that God doesn't exist (it never occurs to them that, with the same strictures , they can never be sure that God does exist).  But again, we can come up with rules - good, reliable, rules that actually work when it comes to describing how the universe operates.  Instead of viewing volcanic eruptions as some sort of Holy Jism, we have volcanology.  Instead of a windstorm being a divine fart, we have meteorology.  In sort there simply isn't anything for God to do.

And a God with nothing to do is no God.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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