RE: Hi There
March 2, 2016 at 7:49 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2016 at 7:49 am by pocaracas.)
Welcome aboard, AJ.
Make yourself comfortable, because you're in for a bumpy ride!!! BUHAHAHAHA!!!
Allow me to reiterate what uncle Alex said - usually, when atheists point out some of god's features, they are simply trying to show you, the believer, how strange, inconsistent, inconsiderate, immoral or evil that god is... and usually, you, the believer, follow that belief on nothing more than "you were raised like that".
Also... ultimately, many of us are well aware that belief is a psychological state... and, as many such states, it can be ingrained into you, regardless of the veracity of the claim on which the belief is based. And it is well known that ingraining works best during childhood. Once ingrained, the belief is very difficult to shake off, no matter how irrational it is (this applies to any belief, not just religious).
Because it's difficult to shake off, those more rational believers delve into apologetics and find a myriad of ways to justify their beliefs... oblivious to the fact that they all rest on the unverifiable.... to them, it IS verifiable! but it's not really...
And old texts mean simply that some people wrote stories way back when. The veracity of those stories is debatable, specially being aware of the existence of many more similar stories which didn't make the final cut... a final cut also made by none other than people.
And people is all there is. People is all we see. People and people's observations on other people - how they behave, how they act, how they come to think about certain subjects...
People and their minds. Religion works as a mind control technique... it works quite well, I may say. And some people are truly better off as believers.
Atheists who take the time to go online and talk about these things, however, tend to have a clear picture of how their minds work and what psychological exploits exist in the religious discourse, making it easy for them (us) to disregard many claims which, to the believer, make absolute sense.
Do learn about logical fallacies... that's a good start.... then see how they are constantly applied by the religious. robvalue's blog (I think you can find it in his signature) has a nice list with a short description of each... I'd check it out, if I were you.
Make yourself comfortable, because you're in for a bumpy ride!!! BUHAHAHAHA!!!
Allow me to reiterate what uncle Alex said - usually, when atheists point out some of god's features, they are simply trying to show you, the believer, how strange, inconsistent, inconsiderate, immoral or evil that god is... and usually, you, the believer, follow that belief on nothing more than "you were raised like that".
Also... ultimately, many of us are well aware that belief is a psychological state... and, as many such states, it can be ingrained into you, regardless of the veracity of the claim on which the belief is based. And it is well known that ingraining works best during childhood. Once ingrained, the belief is very difficult to shake off, no matter how irrational it is (this applies to any belief, not just religious).
Because it's difficult to shake off, those more rational believers delve into apologetics and find a myriad of ways to justify their beliefs... oblivious to the fact that they all rest on the unverifiable.... to them, it IS verifiable! but it's not really...
And old texts mean simply that some people wrote stories way back when. The veracity of those stories is debatable, specially being aware of the existence of many more similar stories which didn't make the final cut... a final cut also made by none other than people.
And people is all there is. People is all we see. People and people's observations on other people - how they behave, how they act, how they come to think about certain subjects...
People and their minds. Religion works as a mind control technique... it works quite well, I may say. And some people are truly better off as believers.
Atheists who take the time to go online and talk about these things, however, tend to have a clear picture of how their minds work and what psychological exploits exist in the religious discourse, making it easy for them (us) to disregard many claims which, to the believer, make absolute sense.
Do learn about logical fallacies... that's a good start.... then see how they are constantly applied by the religious. robvalue's blog (I think you can find it in his signature) has a nice list with a short description of each... I'd check it out, if I were you.
