RE: What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?
November 15, 2016 at 6:46 pm
To Catholic_Lady
I think you're making the mistake of thinking that my atheism towards all religions and your atheism towards most religions somehow puts us on equal footing. It does not.
I don't think any gods exist for the mere fact that there is no evidence for any gods. You think the other gods don't exist because your god must be the right one. My lack of belief in anything supernatural is based off of a real lack of evidence for the supernatural. Your lack of belief in other supernatural deities is based simply off the fact that you think your supernatural deity is the correct one to worship. Why? Because your parents made you go to church when you were younger?
Look... We can all be full of shit at times. But when it comes to religion and/or god, this is not about me thinking I'm right. But for you it is. For me, if I was presented honest, sensible data that somehow proved the existence of something 'greater than ourselves,' I would happily accept it and change my opinion based on the new evidence. If Allah was proven to be real, would you do the same? I doubt it.
I think you're making the mistake of thinking that my atheism towards all religions and your atheism towards most religions somehow puts us on equal footing. It does not.
I don't think any gods exist for the mere fact that there is no evidence for any gods. You think the other gods don't exist because your god must be the right one. My lack of belief in anything supernatural is based off of a real lack of evidence for the supernatural. Your lack of belief in other supernatural deities is based simply off the fact that you think your supernatural deity is the correct one to worship. Why? Because your parents made you go to church when you were younger?
Look... We can all be full of shit at times. But when it comes to religion and/or god, this is not about me thinking I'm right. But for you it is. For me, if I was presented honest, sensible data that somehow proved the existence of something 'greater than ourselves,' I would happily accept it and change my opinion based on the new evidence. If Allah was proven to be real, would you do the same? I doubt it.
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
