(November 5, 2017 at 2:12 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:(November 5, 2017 at 2:02 pm)Cyberman Wrote: I'd be tempted to give him the benefit of the doubt; however my prophet-sense is tingling that he wants to try the old "atheists are bitter at religion because they were damaged by it when they were young" canard. I do hope he proves me wrong.
It would be interesting to hear how many years passed to the current point of him still arguing about religion.
As others have asked, why? What about those of us (like yours truly) who have never had any religious upbringing, yet still have been known to argue about religion?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'