RE: What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God?
December 11, 2015 at 8:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2015 at 8:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 11, 2015 at 8:28 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: I'm trying to get you to admit you think you're special somehow. That I'm special.If you need me to tell you that you're special..I can accommodate sweetheart, I can satisfy your need.
Quote:That us atheists in general are some sort of special breed of people that can see through the God delusion(pun intended) and religious folks are not.Except that I don't think that's true....? Couldn;t tell you for certain that there isn't a gene that predisposes a person towards atheism (or away from theism), but I've never heard of one and I doubt it. There certainly isn't anything like an atheist "breed"...because that we'd notice, if atheists were a different breed it would be impossible for us, at this point, not to realize that.
Quote:That's what follows, given these two facts. We're both atheists. You believe people will always be religious.Religious -and- irreligious, yes. As we've always been. Some of our oldest writings regarding gods also contain the oldest exclamations of atheism on record. We've always been a mixed bag. We've been digging graves and making charms since full modernity, but I bet there was a guy named OG who -didn't- put his nicest axe in his daddys grave..because despite what all the dunces around him thought..he knew corpses had no use for axes.
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