(December 7, 2011 at 11:52 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: How have you proven it?
There have been no rebuttals, unless you think "It's not a belief" and "Lack of evidence" constitutes a rebuttal?
If you think I've missed some key points in your weak as piss perspective, give me a link to a post which epitomises your belief.
Your inability to accept and/or understand in general and understand why our rebuttals are written as such is irrelevant to me.
It isn't a belief because there are no beliefs in atheism. We reject the claims of theism and the rejection of theism is itself not a belief. If you cannot understand this simple explaination, then don't bother insulting the intelligence of those pointing this simple fact out to you and we would gladly explain what this means.
I am, however, slightly more optimistic because i assume you understand and reject this explaination but instead of explaining why we're wrong (so we can better continue a discussion) and thus backing up your point with, at the very least, an explaination, then you're simply wasting our time.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
