(February 27, 2016 at 1:20 am)Sterben Wrote:(February 27, 2016 at 12:35 am)scoobysnack Wrote: See you are the atheist I can respect. Everyone has a different perspective, and even though I believe in God or in my opinion accept and understand their is a God, I don't get my panties in a bunch like some people do, and neither do you if people disagree with us. Like you explain even in atheism there are various levels, just like there are denominations in various religions. Keep up the good work, even though we disagree on some issues, we also agree on other issues. I'd prefer to find common ground with people on this forum, but I'm not afraid to give my perspective even if it clashes with their paradigm.Thanks, I try to my best to be a fair minded Atheist. Has long as your views are not harming a other persons well being, stick to your guns. If you say to a parent who's child is really sick that you don't need hospital. Your views are hurting someone then. I'll play devils advocate on self here for bit, let's say there is a god. He or she is not going to have the ability to do everything to help. If you were to apply logic to this problem, modern medical care would be a gift of man to mankind and not a gift a from god. He or she be a terrible god if the tribe had no self reliance, right? Would it be right for that child to suffer cause of parents think that a god is going to help there child get better?... Now, on to my view. When I was younger and first became an Atheist. I was pissed off about how much I missed out on cause of a flawed system. All those years of being a child and fearing the teachings of a system that by commuting those actions had little to no punishments. Then learning the real history of how much harm that religion has caused through out human history. I wanted to bring down the whole system that had enslaved entire populations for centuries and punished those who challenged that system. I then became more educated and realized that this system will never be brought down fully.
As much as people will disagree i'm not here to troll, or just piss in the sand box. I'm here because I have an opinion, just like everyone else. Even though I'm not an atheist, I actually enjoy this forum. From a programming perspective it's one of the nicer ones.
I wish there was more chill religious people like you in society. Were getting there though, the hardliners are starting to die out and the new generations are taking control of a outdated system and bring it up to a new version. I'm just waiting the pope to bring a other fashion that has been around for way to long to an end. The Pro-life movement needs to finally come to an end, I'm growing tired this argument that is like a cold that keeps coming back. Atheist or Religious you can't argue with math on this one. There is way to many people on this planet and something needs to be done. There's no reason for big families to be created, when you get over four kids your getting greedy on the resources. Right Scoobysnack?
I disagree with your point on the pro-life movement. I posted a bunch of stuff in the planned parenthood thread here that exposes it as an offshoot of the eugenics movement from a hundred plus years ago. Check out my post here which has a link to the US government document National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM 200) Implications of Worldwide Population Growth
Here's the link directly to the post: http://atheistforums.org/thread-34693-po...pid1209038
Part of the problem with falling fertillity rates is that if you have less people entering the workforce then are retiring, it results in the collapse of economies. They have to remain at least stable. In fact it's one reason governments support immigration is because the native population are not having kids, and over time they need people to come in to fill the positions needed to keep economies going. When doing the math we need to have 2.11 fertility rate just to keep things stable. Once you go below that everything starts collapsing, and the lower you go, it's impossible to reverse. This is an interesting short video talking about if you get below a fertility rate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weWgnOimfnA
Then there is the guy just hired by the pope in the vatican who thinks the world is over populated by 6 billion people:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...any-of-us/
There are methods already in place to soft kill us, but if they decide to start the hard kill measures, watch out.