RE: Review so far of the Romans study
November 10, 2015 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2015 at 1:17 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 10, 2015 at 12:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(November 9, 2015 at 8:35 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: To Drich, and other theists/apologists, it must be our ignorance that makes us not like/follow along with their religion. They cannot allow for any other answer.No there are many other reasons: 1) Vanity: If God exists then you cannot set yourself up as your own god, 2) Lust & Greed: If God exists then you can justify your favorite immorality, 3) Relativism: If God doesn't exist then you can make up your own personal truth and no one can tell you you're wrong. The list goes on.
Those could all be reasons. But all of these reason could just as well, and no doubt particularly in your case actually do, serve as justifications for indulging in the idiotic and supercilious delusion that there is some supreme being that happen to match all the characteristic of some nasty Bronze Age goat herder's convenient excuse for browbeating their opponents, which through pure contingent circumstances became the unfortunate patrimony of the culture into which you were regrettably born, and that such a god as that is looking out for you.
But all the reasons why many were atheists is irrelevant to the fact that there is one reason why one SHOULD BE atheist. That reason is it is overwhelmingly contrary to humanity's accumulated experiences in effective fact finding to assume pretending any unproven God, let along your particular unproven God, to actually exists could not but grossly weaken the intellectual rigor demonstrated ad infinitum to be essential for effective fact finding, and could not but distort the result of fact finding into delusional wishthink confirmation.
You are, sir, born 3000 years past your sell by date. Go masturbate drich.