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Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
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(November 4, 2015 at 9:46 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:Wikipedia Wrote:a) "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters." Does then the phrase: "The number defined by a) above." (character count ~25) also refer to that same number and thereby define that smallest integer in even fewer characters, not 57, but 25? Or is the character count now 82 and is no longer less than 60?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
November 6, 2015 at 1:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2015 at 1:49 am by IATIA.)
(November 5, 2015 at 10:30 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(November 5, 2015 at 10:26 am)houseofcantor Wrote: I get the suspicion you're not a crazy person. Been there, done that. I left one in the middle of the night when she came home and started an argument with the mirror on what she should do with me.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy (October 27, 2015 at 6:38 pm)abaris Wrote:(October 27, 2015 at 6:31 pm)Losty Wrote: He thinks sitting in a dark room is equivalent to sitting someplace where the sun does not exist lol No atmosphere. This reminds me of something. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM No completely beyond the environment. There is no environment. (October 18, 2015 at 9:14 pm)Delicate Wrote: I suppose any theist who has read this part of the forum has to chuckle at how terrible atheist critiques of theism are. Yes, I think you are correct. The ignorance and out-right ill-will is astonishing. And I say this even with many of the former believers here in mind. At the same time, I've noted some real howlers from believers, also, so both sides have issues that need to be addressed - but won't, I suspect, due to a lack of interest in genuine dialogue.
When theists are willing to define core beliefs, I'll be willing to pay attention to whether atheists understand them. Unless you do, why should I bother? I know what particular theists have told me, and what I've been taught in classes and books. They don't agree. Either put up some universal beliefs (good luck with that one), your own beliefs, or what you think are self evident beliefs, or shut up. I have no interest in guessing what of the morass of theist beliefs you happen to consider important. correct, or self eviedent.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
(January 14, 2016 at 4:12 pm)athrock Wrote: Yes, I think you are correct. The ignorance and out-right ill-will is astonishing. And I say this even with many of the former believers here in mind.
I like how atheists get accused of ill will, when theists are the ones fantasizing about the other side burning in hell for all eternity for having a different opinion from them.
(January 14, 2016 at 6:52 pm)Cecelia Wrote: I like how atheists get accused of ill will, when theists are the ones fantasizing about the other side burning in hell for all eternity for having a different opinion from them. Exactly And these people don't realise that, in this world, absolutely nothing will happen to you if atheists don't agree with your religion. Meanwhile, there are still several countries where apostasy is punishable by death, and many more where there is still a deep stigma around atheism. "Secularism" is increasingly becoming more and more of dirty word as well, people don't see it as progressive policy like they did before.
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