RE: Why atheism is a belief.
December 8, 2011 at 11:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2011 at 11:19 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(December 8, 2011 at 11:00 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: That you disbelieve something without proving means it's a belief.You realize that this isn't even a logical statement, correct?
the very term "disbelief" is the opposite of "belief."
It means that one cannot mean the same as the other.
You might as well be telling me that not having a car is the same thing as having a car.
On what I'm guessing is your primary point, my rejection of god, faith in god, and religion is all founded on the 'evidence' of religion's complete lack of evidence. None of what religion has asserted has ever been proven beyond any kind of reasonable doubt and thus I have no reason to accept their claims as anything but horse shit. Given that there's no evidence for god, I don't need to prove anything to reject that claim because there's nothing in the world that gives that claim any merit.
(December 8, 2011 at 11:00 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: It must suck to have no idea why you're stupid, but then you wouldn't know that you are. So it probably wouldn't be that bad for you. Kinda like having down syndrome but not knowing it.Given your above statement, you really are in no position to be insulting other people's intelligence.
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
