RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
March 2, 2013 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2013 at 5:20 pm by jstrodel.)
There are so many responses, and so many personal attacks and so much adolescent behavior, I am not going to reply to any more.
If you feel that you have a particularly strong objection to what I wrote, and there is no name calling, no adolescent behavior, no references to sexual organs, etc, message me and I will reply to it. You can post the reply in a public forum if you want to (I'm not afraid of debate I just don't feel like debating immature people).
Virtually all of the replies that I have read (I stopped reading them) have avoided the central issues that I have raised and attacked some sort of straw-man without any philosophical rigor, typically with reference to sexual organs or something like this. If you feel that you have a reply that doesn't fall into this category, please send it to me.
I understand that there are many atheists that are intelligent and mature people who have contributed substantially to human understanding. Many of them are my personal heros. I just don't feel like debating atheists that get a rush off of pissing people off on the internet.
I apologize if anyone wrote a thoughtful response and I missed it.
Many people here seem to think that in a debate you can simply ignore the original point being made, insult the person raising a question, splinter the debate into a million unrelated issues and then call the person names.
I apologize for the people I falsely characterized as porn watching, pot smoking video gamer players. Like I said, I understand there are many atheists who are intelligent people and decent.
If you feel that you have a particularly strong objection to what I wrote, and there is no name calling, no adolescent behavior, no references to sexual organs, etc, message me and I will reply to it. You can post the reply in a public forum if you want to (I'm not afraid of debate I just don't feel like debating immature people).
Virtually all of the replies that I have read (I stopped reading them) have avoided the central issues that I have raised and attacked some sort of straw-man without any philosophical rigor, typically with reference to sexual organs or something like this. If you feel that you have a reply that doesn't fall into this category, please send it to me.
I understand that there are many atheists that are intelligent and mature people who have contributed substantially to human understanding. Many of them are my personal heros. I just don't feel like debating atheists that get a rush off of pissing people off on the internet.
I apologize if anyone wrote a thoughtful response and I missed it.
Many people here seem to think that in a debate you can simply ignore the original point being made, insult the person raising a question, splinter the debate into a million unrelated issues and then call the person names.
I apologize for the people I falsely characterized as porn watching, pot smoking video gamer players. Like I said, I understand there are many atheists who are intelligent people and decent.
