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atheist can't accept new ideas
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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.
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them
-- Galileo Galilei 
Your aunt is a world-class asshole.
Sorry....but there it is.  (March 22, 2011 at 12:23 am)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? There are many intelligent Christians, no doubt, but an "intellectual Christian", is surely an oxymoron. RE: atheist can't accept new ideas
March 22, 2011 at 12:43 am
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(March 22, 2011 at 12:37 am)Minimalist Wrote: Your aunt is a world-class asshole.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. (March 22, 2011 at 12:41 am)ozgoat Wrote:yes yes she does.(March 22, 2011 at 12:23 am)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. I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them
-- Galileo Galilei  
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe (March 22, 2011 at 12:41 am)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. (March 22, 2011 at 12:41 am)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. 
Your Aunt doesn't sound like a woman given to a lot of thinking.
![[Image: mybannerglitter06eee094.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i118.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo112%2Fpussinboots_photos%2FBikes%2Fmybannerglitter06eee094.gif) If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.  (March 22, 2011 at 12:23 am)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.
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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.
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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.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems? 
Dogma SPECIFICALLY stops people from accepting new ideas.
Theology is DOGMA atheists do not partake of theism or its dogma. |
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