(July 30, 2017 at 12:09 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 30, 2017 at 11:41 am)Minimalist Wrote: They already have a bad impression of atheists because we don't believe in their stupid, fucking, god.
That is true for some, yes. But there are many of us who really don't feel that way at all, I promise!
(July 30, 2017 at 12:02 pm)Astonished Wrote:
The stupid ones who are going to stereotype atheists one way or another (which I specifically referred to; 'delusional' is the term that more appropriately applies to theists, not 'stupid')? Yeah, they can be written off. Brains a tad dusty, and all that, apparently, not like I believe nor care how intelligent or not anyone you know might be. Being nice and cordial doesn't seem to faze that particular type of delusional thinker, so why bother when they just roll their eyes and say they'll pray for you or threaten you with hellfire? Their flavor of belief may not be rooted in stupidity (again, I've said this already) but once that delusion got hold of their dusty dendrites, the manifestation of stupid that otherwise wouldn't occur just happened to come out and play. It's not fair to them (indoctrination should carry stiff criminal penalties) but we're offering the way out of that and if they don't want to take the high road and be genuinely honest about what they're doing, well, we tried, and...fuck 'em. Can't say we weren't the ones trying to make a positive difference, and when that fails, middle finger. At least that'll more often keep them from preaching at us. At that point we're done with them, they may not be a hopeless case but someone or something else is going to have to take a crack at it, and the worst thing we could be doing is try to meet them half-way and make them think there's any validity to their claims. Once they've rejected any attempt at street epistemology or whatever preferred approach a non-believer might want to use, it's like an antibody is built up against that person and their ability to persuade. So fuck 'em is basically, we're done, as far as we're concerned we can write them off as hopeless cases because it's not in our particular hands anymore, but also shut down any attempt on their part to reciprocate. At least with our case, it wasn't an inane waste of breath with no intent to actually achieve something worthwhile.
Lol
Nothing more substantial? Thought not.
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.
