RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
December 5, 2012 at 1:55 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2012 at 1:56 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(December 5, 2012 at 1:48 am)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote:(December 5, 2012 at 1:39 am)Rayaan Wrote: Explain why you think so.
Because I see justifications for atheism boiling down into two categories:
a) Motivations that contain a lot of emotion.
b) Motivations that contain reason. Rationale. Thinking. Arguments.
I see almost no discussion of (b) on this forum.
But emotions? Anger? Hate? Tons of it. I do my fair share of trollerskating and mock the anger and hate with even more anger and hate.
But let's face facts. Most atheists here are driven by anger and hatred, not rationality and critical thinking.
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It's usually a combination of two reasons: (1) the theists' arguments posted here are often so lame and inane it's laughable and (2) the theist has made it obvious in their demeanor and in their reasoning that any attempt at calm rational discourse with them will be a fruitless and pointless endeavor. So we make the best of it and just use them as our playthings.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
