RE: Comfort in Faith at Death
July 8, 2019 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2019 at 1:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The objection to antitheism on the basis of comforting beliefs implicitly asserts exactly that, Shell. You say the reason you can’t be an an antitheist is because you value that comfort.
So do antitheists. It’s because antitheists value that comfort and see theism exploiting it that they say things like “religion poisons everything”.
It’s not s good reason to object to antirheism or even a reason not to be an antitheist because it has nothing to do with what antitheism contends. We knock shit like this down with regularity, as atheists, on the boards.
I don’t find afterlives or comfort in afterlives problematic, either. I find - theism- problematic...and so do you.....by reference to a decade or so of comments, and comment in thread. Even our resident theist and atheist theistic apologists have indicated as much. Like I said, an uncontroversial opinion with unfortunate ( and inaccurate) stigma attached.
Bonus round...who and what, do you think....attached that stigma?
So do antitheists. It’s because antitheists value that comfort and see theism exploiting it that they say things like “religion poisons everything”.
It’s not s good reason to object to antirheism or even a reason not to be an antitheist because it has nothing to do with what antitheism contends. We knock shit like this down with regularity, as atheists, on the boards.
I don’t find afterlives or comfort in afterlives problematic, either. I find - theism- problematic...and so do you.....by reference to a decade or so of comments, and comment in thread. Even our resident theist and atheist theistic apologists have indicated as much. Like I said, an uncontroversial opinion with unfortunate ( and inaccurate) stigma attached.
Bonus round...who and what, do you think....attached that stigma?
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