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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 3:35 pm
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Yeah, pretty much...rightly or wrongly, people invite me to their things. Do you get invited to things often?
I mean you, ofc, not your brownies. I got "invited" to alot more when I was a caterer. People put up with alot of shit they can't stand for a chance at a decent cookie.
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 3:44 pm
(November 5, 2021 at 3:35 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yeah, pretty much...rightly or wrongly, people invite me to their things. Do you get invited to things often?
I mean you, ofc, not your brownies. I got "invited" to alot more when I was a caterer. People put up with alot of shit they can't stand for a chance at a decent cookie. I haven't been to a ton of parties. I turned down going to more parties than I've ever been to. But one of my friends (at the time) even said I was "the life of the party". Nowadays a party seems pointless since I don't drink anymore.
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 3:45 pm
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Yeah...I gathered as much. I'll tell you what, it's a good thing you stopped entertaining your "friends"...because some people just like to watch a trainwreck in progress...and that's not ever going to be healthy for you.
You don't drink....anymore....? Fuck, do I need to repeat myself or are you already cognizant?
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 3:51 pm
(November 5, 2021 at 3:45 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yeah...I gathered as much. I'll tell you what, it's a good thing you stopped entertaining your "friends"...because some people just like to watch a trainwreck in progress...and that's not ever going to be healthy for you.
You don't drink....anymore....? Fuck, do I need to repeat myself or are you already cognizant? Not sure what you mean.
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 3:55 pm
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(November 5, 2021 at 12:13 pm)Soberman921 Wrote: I noticed today that "Is Atheism Dead?" by Eric Metaxas occupies the top three slots in the Atheism category on Amazon. So the hardcover, Kindle version and audiobook are all outselling every other atheism book. Has anyone read this and have any thoughts? I'm going to pick it up and start working through it. From the table of contents it looks like some recycled arguments from ignorance and old fashioned atheist bashing but it's clearly getting some serious traction. A quick web search didn't turn up any serious rebuttals so I'm wondering if any have been posted.
Ugh. Nope. I don't have the patience anymore for this kind on nonsense. I'll let the militants charge.
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 3:57 pm
(November 5, 2021 at 3:55 pm)brewer Wrote: (November 5, 2021 at 12:13 pm)Soberman921 Wrote: I noticed today that "Is Atheism Dead?" by Eric Metaxas occupies the top three slots in the Atheism category on Amazon. So the hardcover, Kindle version and audiobook are all outselling every other atheism book. Has anyone read this and have any thoughts? I'm going to pick it up and start working through it. From the table of contents it looks like some recycled arguments from ignorance and old fashioned atheist bashing but it's clearly getting some serious traction. A quick web search didn't turn up any serious rebuttals so I'm wondering if any have been posted.
Ugh. Nope. I don't have the patience anymore for this kind on nonsense. Indeed Eric Metaxas is a delusional no nothing 
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 3:58 pm
Ah, yes, people who claim that atheism is dead forget that they are also atheists
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 4:04 pm
(November 5, 2021 at 3:58 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Ah, yes, people who claim that atheism is dead forget that they are also atheists
That quote......stupidest shit I ever heard.
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 4:05 pm
(November 5, 2021 at 4:04 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (November 5, 2021 at 3:58 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Ah, yes, people who claim that atheism is dead forget that they are also atheists
That quote......stupidest shit I ever heard.
Because you believe in all gods.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Is Atheism Dead?
November 5, 2021 at 8:31 pm
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(November 5, 2021 at 12:13 pm)Soberman921 Wrote: I noticed today that "Is Atheism Dead?" by Eric Metaxas occupies the top three slots in the Atheism category on Amazon. So the hardcover, Kindle version and audiobook are all outselling every other atheism book. Has anyone read this and have any thoughts? I'm going to pick it up and start working through it. From the table of contents it looks like some recycled arguments from ignorance and old fashioned atheist bashing but it's clearly getting some serious traction. A quick web search didn't turn up any serious rebuttals so I'm wondering if any have been posted.
If Atheism and by extension doubt in religious belief was truly dead, or even on the way out, then we would have no secular societies left on this planet. The fact that the trend seems to be towards "pro choice" across free will on flavour of religion (including no religion) in most places of the world apart from either dictatorial regimes or fanatics seems to indicate the exact opposite.
Let me ask you this. If the majority of people truly believed that if you don't worship the big guy you go to place of eternal flames and torture, then by golly, wouldn't we be failing miserably as a society by not mandating such belief simply from a health and safety point of view?
(November 5, 2021 at 4:04 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (November 5, 2021 at 3:58 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Ah, yes, people who claim that atheism is dead forget that they are also atheists
That quote......stupidest shit I ever heard.
Stupidest response I ever heard. Do you understand the quote?
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