(January 11, 2016 at 6:40 pm)Evie Wrote: Okay, years ago I used to actually debate religion and talk about why it is bullshit a lot more.
So here is an actual old-style Evie thread about why gods are utter, utter total bullshit.
1. What actually is a god?
Everyone defines gods differently, some define them literally based on scripture to the point where they are full of absolute, complete total and utter impossible bullshit logical contradictions. If you take the Bible, the Koran or the Book of Mormon for example, and you believe in any of them completely literally, it is full of so many contradictions that the "God" you believe in must be logically contradictory and therefore impossible.
If you want contradictions in any of these fucktarded holy books, here is the perfect website for you:
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
Then there's those who cherry pick out the parts in scripture they dislike to the point where it's actually logical possible for god to exist, but they still have no fucking evidence and it's still utterly ridiculous.
Then there's those who define god in such a watered down way that they reduce god to a mere concept, and as Daniel Dennett said:
Daniel Dennett Wrote:God is not a concept. The concept of God is a concept. A cup of coffee is not a concept. The concept of a cup of coffee is a concept. [It's]Elementary philosophy
At this point it's not even a supernatural deity anyone is talking about.
2. Gods are undetectable and unfalsifiable and there can be no evidence for them because they are supernatural.
Like seriously... people want to define "God" as not only invisible but also intangible and outside space and time?
This is why I gave up asking for evidence for gods, it's not just because I won't believe without evidence, but it's because I don't think there even can be any.
"Supernatural" deity is just a synonym for "undetectable and fucktarded" deity. Seriously... anything supernatural is undetectable and unfalsifiable by science and is thereby outside of the scope of a little thing I like to call REALITY.
It's pointless asking for evidence for something defined in such a way that even if this "God" displayed himself to us and threw mountains around and talked in his big booming godly voice, this would not be proof of anything supernatural.... it would be proof of something natural and detectable by science and observation, something not outside off space nor time.... and even if "God" was NOT defined in such a way that he must never show himself to us and he must stay outside space and time, it still wouldn't be proof of a creator "God"... because at the very least it would be indistinguishable from an extremely powerful extra terrestrial that had evolved like all other lifeforms, was not "supernatural" at all and was merely posing as "God".
3. Belief in Belief, and how believers actions don't match what they believe.
Daniel Dennett introduced this concept:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Belief_in_belief
Okay so... there are so many religious people who clearly believe that believing in God(s) is a good thing, a noble thing. There are those who believe that without a God you can't be moral.
Not only is this complete bullshit but it's not the same thing as believing a supernatural deity exists of course. And hoping that God exists, and professing belief in God and trying to "have faith", is not the same as actually believing that there's an actual deity that created the universe...
...this is where reasons for "belief" in God becomes not only emotional and irrational, but gets to the point where it seems like the believer is in denial about what they actually believe about the true origins of the universe, and they just merely can't live with the idea of believing that there isn't a creator looking after them and everyone else they care about.
Another thing that ties into this is the whole bullshit "Pascal's Wager" thing. How the fuck can you make a wager about whether to believe in God based on the consequences of what you think would happen because of believing or not believing?
You are either believe something exists or you don't. If someone offers you a big reward if you believe something or they wish to punish you if you don't believe it, that won't affect what you actually believe in any way. No one can help what evidence they are convinced by, or what lack of evidence they are not convinced by. What someone actually thinks corresponds to reality has absolutely nothing to do with what belief they actually would like to hold so they can feel more comfortable about themselves.
Not only this but the whole Pascal's Wager bullshit thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
...is completely fucktarded. Because there are an infinite number of conceivable gods that could send you to and infinite number of conceivable Heavens or Hells, not just the ones described in absolute complete total and utter bullshit Scriptures like the Bible, Koran or Book of Mormon... so there are just as many conceivable gods who would send atheists to heaven and send believers to hell, the whole Pascal's Wager thing is fucking fucktarded.
Furthermore, real genuine belief as opposed to merely hoping or wanting to believe: It makes people behave like they actually believe. At the end of the day people are going to trust science and evidence when it comes to important things like their health and safety, any of the more moderate believers are not going to choose bullshit like prayer over that, and that displays the fact what people profess to believe and what they actually believe is very different.
4. If "God" exists he is a total cunt or an idiot and we shouldn't believe in him anyway:
Seriously... if there really is a god who created the universe they either don't give a shit about how fucked up the world is, or they're very incompetent and can't do anything about it, or they're an absolute, complete, total and utter cunt of bastard.
Epicurus Wrote:Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is malevolent. Is He both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is He neither able nor willing? Then why call Him God?
Epicurus fucking nailed it hundreds of years before the Bible or so-called Jesus even fucking existed. Clever philosophical bastard.
5. The so-called "Free Will" excuse.
Oh for fucks sake. Okay... so God can allow murders and rapists and wars because he gives such people "free-will"
A. What kind of a fucking horrible caretaker is he? That isn't taking care of his creations. What a dipshit. Giving free will to utterly horrific people? What the fuck?
Thank fuck he doesn't exist and isn't someone's parent/thank fuck this isn't what the policy on any sort of Criminal Justice System is like. "Oh, just let them run riot and do what the fuck they like, they have free will."
B. For fucks sake. Free-will not only doesn't and can't exist in any sense besides merely defining our choices and decisions as "free", but God himself can't have free will either.
It doesn't matter whether you have a brain, a soul, whether you're natural or a supernatural deity of "God", either everything is predetermined and our wills are not free, or everything is undetermined and we are not free. Or a combination and we are not free because neither of those things added together are free... 0+0= still "0".
This applies to any "God" for exactly the same reason. If you wanna label your decisions and choices "free" and merely call that "free will", if you wanna be a compatabilist, fine. But remember that doesn't change the fact that we're either determined or undetermined and there have been scientific experiments that confirm that every action and decision we make is decided for us by our unconscious minds sometimes as much as 7 seconds before our conscious minds are even aware of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FanhvXO9Pk
So the point is "God" is not fucking all powerful if he doesn't even have "free will" himself.
So... yeah... gods are fucking bullshit.
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P.S. The swearing is for humorous effect. I'm not even remotely angry. In fact my life is awesome and happy!
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Old style Evie reminds me of....me.
