(January 12, 2017 at 11:16 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Those who compare God to the tooth fairy are douchebags.
How? It's a fair comparison.
Quote:I’m sorry but that is truly how I feel.
Your feelings don't make belief in God any less silly.
Quote:Without even an ounce of shame they ridicule some of the best and brightest thinkers who take up a problem serious and came to serious conclusion. Kierkegaard, Hegel, Kant, Buber, Kripke, Plantinga, Newton, Leibnitz, Putman, and Godel are/were theists.
Smart people who believed in a Guy in the Sky, A.K.A. an imaginary friend that's as silly as the tooth fairy.
No shame required. It's truthful and honest for me to say that yes belief in a supernatural creator is as silly as belief in the tooth fairy.
Quote:That list doesn’t even include theologians, like David Bentley Hart, or physicists, like, Francis Collins or Max Planck. All brilliant.
Irrelevant.
Quote:Maybe you don’t realize this but it is possible to be an atheist without acting like an infantile little snark.
And yet it's not infantile to compare a Guy in the Sky to a tooth fairy. It's infantile to believe in a Guy in the Sky.
Quote:It’s astonishing to me how such ass-wipes will disrespect the legacies of truly great men and women like Dr. King, Bonhoeffer, and Catherine Booth (founder of the Salvation Army) by pretending that their religious convictions did nothing to motivate and inspire them to change the world.
Funny how you talk of being infantile and a little snark when that is clearly you. Calling atheists ass wipes and infantile little snarks for making fair comparisons while you make a bunch of irrelevant name dropping.
It's no surprise you're a theist with the emotional irrelevancy you display here.
Quote:How can anyone seriously believe that the motivating force to build the very first hospitals is in any way comparable to believing in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus?
Oh great so along with making nothing but an irrelevant Argument From Authority you now have to sneak in an irrelevant Argument From Personal Incredulity. I don't give a flying fuck whether you wonder how anyone can personally compare something to the tooth fairy or Santa Claus. It just so happens that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and God/A Guy In The Sky/ An Imaginary Firend/ Supernatural Creator Of the Universe Oh And By The Way Also Jesus and Resurrection and Miracles and Stuff ... all this crap is just as absurd as the tooth fairy and Santa Claus.
Quote:Here in Chicago we have Mount Siani, Rush Presbyterian, Illinois Masonic, Loyola, Mercy, Saints Mary and Elizabeth, Saint Anthony...that’s just a start. They came to be because of religious convictions for which you have no respect.
Fuck you you're clearly the one lacking respect here with your insults to atheists who call out your stupid beliefs for what they are, stupid. We shit on your beliefs and you shit on us because you can't tell the difference. Well go fuck yourself. You have neither shown nor earned respect.
