atheist can't accept new ideas

[the6dead]

I was talking to my aunt about how religious people and organizations are slow to accept new ideas. Her defence was atheists can't accept new ideas based on the fact that they reject the old ideas of religion.

[Minimalist]

Your aunt is a world-class asshole.

Sorry....but there it is.

[ozgoat]

(22nd March 2011 05:23)the6dead Wrote:  I was talking to my aunt about how religious people and organizations are slow to accept new ideas. Her defence was atheists can't accept new ideas based on the fact that they reject the old ideas of religion.

Um, sounds like nonsense to me. Does she seriously think that old ideas of religion have anything to do with the 21st century?

[the6dead]

(22nd March 2011 05:37)Minimalist Wrote:  Your aunt is a world-class asshole.

Sorry....but there it is.

I know the bad is I live with her and my mom.(my mom is a free thinker)
she is always trying to convert me.

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(22nd March 2011 05:41)ozgoat Wrote:  

(22nd March 2011 05:23)the6dead Wrote:  I was talking to my aunt about how religious people and organizations are slow to accept new ideas. Her defence was atheists can't accept new ideas based on the fact that they reject the old ideas of religion.

Um, sounds like nonsense to me. Does she seriously think that old ideas of religion have anything to do with the 21st century?

yes yes she does.

[fr0d0]

(22nd March 2011 05:41)ozgoat Wrote:  Um, sounds like nonsense to me.

Sounds like nonsense to me too. Atheists can be as rigid in their thinking as any other person, but that statement makes no sense.

(22nd March 2011 05:41)ozgoat Wrote:  Does she seriously think that old ideas of religion have anything to do with the 21st century?

I watched The Last Airbender again the other week. I was blown away. The baddies are the Fire Nation... an obvious metaphor for the industrialised nations. At one point they discover the spirits of the moon and ocean as a pair of fish. The Fire Nation kills one, saying that they are too powerful to need childish superstition any more. Of course the world tips out of balance and is a miserable place, with the Fire Nation now in full control.

Sums it all up really.

[Zen Badger]

Your Aunt doesn't sound like a woman given to a lot of thinking.

[theVOID]

(22nd March 2011 05:23)the6dead Wrote:  I was talking to my aunt about how religious people and organizations are slow to accept new ideas. Her defence was atheists can't accept new ideas based on the fact that they reject the old ideas of religion.

Logic Fail

We don't have trouble accepting new ideas, that's why Atheists are on the forefront of Science and Philosophy, we have trouble accepting bad ideas, that's why we don't waste large portions of our lives on our knees hoping that the slave master is listening.

[OnlyNatural]

Since when does rejecting old ideas equate to not accepting new ideas? Accepting new ones usually requires questioning and rejecting old ones. In fact, that's how science works. Silly aunt. It's the religious people who cling to old religious ideas who tend to have a harder time seeing things in new ways.

[Thor]

So, explain this to me again....

What exactly do "new ideas" have to do with "the old ideas of religion"? Other than the fact that "new ideas" show the "the old ideas of religion" to be nonsensical.

[reverendjeremiah]

Dogma SPECIFICALLY stops people from accepting new ideas.

Theology is DOGMA

atheists do not partake of theism or its dogma.