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When believing false things is comforting
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RE: When believing false things is comforting
(September 24, 2019 at 6:48 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(September 24, 2019 at 6:37 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: You claimed there was an atheist ideology and now that it is pointed out that there is none such you are attempting "duck and cover". That any atheist may hold to any other unrelated ideology is as irrelevant as that any THEIST may hold to other unrelated ideologies. 
Please review the thread.
I have never said that there is such a thing as "atheist ideology."

Of course you didn't. You simply implied one, in keeping with your habit of being a "no-claimer". I could cite your weasel words, but you would spout more to evade responsibility.

Anyway, you claimed in this thread that atheists held ideologies and that they were atheist ideologies that they held.

Start with...
(September 22, 2019 at 8:50 pm)Belaqua Wrote: My experience is that it is very much NOT true, of either atheists or religious people. 

Commitment to an ideological position nearly always takes precedence.
Thus atheists, in your view have an ideological position.

You then expanded to many ideologies when challenged...

(September 23, 2019 at 6:40 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(September 23, 2019 at 5:18 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Please detail the ideology of atheism.

Atheists, like theists, may subscribe to a wide variety of ideologies. 

Any human being who says "I think the world should be this instead of that way" has an ideology, including atheists.
Which was utterly irrelevant.

And in your very next post, you appealled to a hymn. A fucking hymn. Composed by an indoctrinated child, no less.

(September 23, 2019 at 9:45 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(September 23, 2019 at 8:53 pm)Grandizer Wrote: They still believe it is true that Christ exists.

There's a hymn my niece put up on her Facebook page, called "Christ has no body now but yours." Many modern Christians think that Christ "exists" when we do Christlike things, and in no other way. William Blake says something similar.

(September 23, 2019 at 9:23 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Claiming pious belief in the noble principle that such an evil thing as gravity can't exist does not excuse those who pushes other off of tall buildings.

Ooh, deep. Completely irrelevant, but deep.
And proceeded to hurl mockery at Anom while failing to understand his post.

It is interesting that you resorted to religious child abuse at this point. Really? A"hymn"? Composed by an indoctrinated child? This should impress who exactly?

And you then follow up with this blatant christian propaganda...
(September 23, 2019 at 11:59 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(September 23, 2019 at 11:39 pm)Succubus Wrote: William Blake?

Blake was a Christian. He was deeply knowledgable about the traditional theology which doesn't hold that God is a mean sky-daddy who lives on a cloud. Studying his work gives us access to other religious thinkers, like Buber, Weil, etc., who disagree with the dumb sola scriptura literalists.

I am an atheist. What gullible theists like Blake, Buber or Weil might claim is kind of irrelevant, don't you think?

But your reliance on such dubious sources paints you into the very corner that you have been trying to avoid in pursuit of your cloak of being impartial.

Whatever. You and I both know that you are a christian attempting to blag your way into an atheist community.

So long as we both know this, then all is well. You know I am being honest and I know that you are not.

And so does everyone else who can read.

ETA: Of course, you could clear all of this up with a plain statement of what exactly your position really is. So far, you refuse to do so. I suppose that is on you.
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Messages In This Thread
When believing false things is comforting - by Foxaèr - September 22, 2019 at 8:27 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 22, 2019 at 8:50 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Abaddon_ire - September 23, 2019 at 5:18 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 23, 2019 at 6:40 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Abaddon_ire - September 24, 2019 at 3:57 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Anomalocaris - September 23, 2019 at 5:43 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by TaraJo - September 22, 2019 at 8:51 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 22, 2019 at 9:07 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Grandizer - September 23, 2019 at 8:53 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Anomalocaris - September 23, 2019 at 9:23 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 23, 2019 at 9:45 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Succubus - September 23, 2019 at 11:39 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 23, 2019 at 11:59 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Grandizer - September 24, 2019 at 12:34 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 12:51 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Anomalocaris - September 24, 2019 at 2:10 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 2:15 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Succubus - September 24, 2019 at 2:52 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 3:05 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Succubus - September 24, 2019 at 3:27 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 4:02 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Deesse23 - September 24, 2019 at 5:19 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 5:26 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Deesse23 - September 24, 2019 at 6:14 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 6:22 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Deesse23 - September 24, 2019 at 7:01 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 6:23 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Deesse23 - September 25, 2019 at 1:56 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 25, 2019 at 2:41 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Abaddon_ire - September 24, 2019 at 6:37 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 6:48 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Abaddon_ire - September 24, 2019 at 7:24 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 7:31 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Grandizer - September 24, 2019 at 7:37 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Belacqua - September 24, 2019 at 7:50 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Anomalocaris - September 24, 2019 at 3:41 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Succubus - September 24, 2019 at 12:53 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Anomalocaris - September 23, 2019 at 11:40 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by brewer - September 22, 2019 at 9:16 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Macoleco - September 22, 2019 at 10:20 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by tackattack - September 23, 2019 at 11:06 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by tackattack - September 23, 2019 at 11:29 am
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Simon Moon - September 26, 2019 at 12:13 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by Simon Moon - September 26, 2019 at 2:47 pm
RE: When believing false things is comforting - by tackattack - September 26, 2019 at 2:00 pm

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