(January 18, 2016 at 9:35 am)Iroscato Wrote: Even if the concept of religion wasn't a laughably see-through pile of cack, no being that demands my worship is worthy of having it.
Ditto x10^∞
(January 18, 2016 at 11:09 am)Faith No More Wrote: I've always wondered why a god would want people acting like a bunch of mindless drones. Is it too much to ask for a god that values individuality and free thought?
(January 18, 2016 at 11:12 am)robvalue Wrote: Exactly! He gives us a brain, and the "free will" we're so often told about, and then wants us to shut it off and just believe whatever we're told without question. What kind of weird being are we dealing with? Sounds messed up.
That's what confuses me about incarnations of gods like the Christian one - it creates us especially, wants us to worship it, gives us brains and the capability to learn and act of our own accord... but wants us to believe in it based on faith and really shitty evidence that can be explained by natural means, and then, in some sub-incarnations, will send the people who fail to live up to its no-thinky-just-kiss-my-assy expectation to some sort of torturous underworld? WTF? Who would worship that?
(January 18, 2016 at 12:50 pm)ktrap Wrote: I do not consider Atheism as a good option. At best, Atheism has good arguments against dogma in religion, but beyond that there is NOTHING.
How is this different than saying "I do not consider Theism as a good option. At best, Theism has good arguments FOR dogma in religion, but beyond that there is NOTHING."?
I mean, you can't prove that a god absolutely exists any more than an atheist can prove that a god doesn't absolutely exist.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
