(July 19, 2017 at 10:23 am)Jesster Wrote: If a religion doesn't include a god belief, that doesn't automatically get it off the hook for me. On top of being an atheist, I am also a skeptic. Actually, my skepticism is far more important to me than my atheism, since it is the reason for it in the first place. Anyone who makes big claims about reality has to back them up to me all the same.
This is why it irks me when atheism is used as a blanket label when rational skeptics are by and large the ones who'll be making a stir. Large portions of the wider atheist community can succumb to woo and superstition so they're not exactly part of the 'club' doing good works against rampant irrationality, as futile as it seems most of the time. Atheism also just has that stigma attached to it when the religious practically spit when they say the word, so on top of 'rational skeptic' probably confusing them since they'll probably be ignorant of what it even means, it won't automatically have the same exact response.
But what about Scientology? Isn't that not god-based, even though there are spirits?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
