RE: Are cats atheists?
July 21, 2012 at 9:57 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2012 at 9:59 am by Felasco.)
Ok, what we see here is that Jeffonthenet is asking very reasonable and intelligent questions. He is being intellectually honest and loyal to the principles of reason by applying the same challenges we reasonably present to theism to atheism as well.
In reply, those members who can't meet his challenge are hoping to bury the thread in a big pile of cutesy tootsy snarky comments etc. The junior high school defense strategy, which admittedly is effective, as it will eventually succeed in running off anybody thoughtful enough to present an effective challenge.
The mistake Jeffonthenet is making is the same one I always make (over and over again for 60 years) in assuming that conversations about theism and atheism have anything to do with reason. People like Jeffonthenet and myself display our own lack of reason by pointlessly debating Jehovah's Witnesses, forum atheists and other such passionately committed ideologists.
So, to summarize, the lot of us are all nuttier than fruitcakes, and seem to be enjoying our almost complete lack of rationality. :-) On with the games!
In reply, those members who can't meet his challenge are hoping to bury the thread in a big pile of cutesy tootsy snarky comments etc. The junior high school defense strategy, which admittedly is effective, as it will eventually succeed in running off anybody thoughtful enough to present an effective challenge.
The mistake Jeffonthenet is making is the same one I always make (over and over again for 60 years) in assuming that conversations about theism and atheism have anything to do with reason. People like Jeffonthenet and myself display our own lack of reason by pointlessly debating Jehovah's Witnesses, forum atheists and other such passionately committed ideologists.
So, to summarize, the lot of us are all nuttier than fruitcakes, and seem to be enjoying our almost complete lack of rationality. :-) On with the games!
