Atheism, Theism, Science & Philosophy

[A_Nony_Mouse]

Hardly the oddest part. Little Mosque on the Prairie teaches me Rayaan is a woman's name.

Ray in Persian means "wisdom" (which comes from Middle Persian verb Raynitan) and Rayan means "wise" (which comes from Avestan word "Raonat") and is a first name given to males in Persia and Iran.

You would dare to pit wikipedia against Little Mosque?

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I think that the alternative to reasoned, rational, logical thought is mostly emotional thought.

I'm going to give you the very basic reason why I am so aggressive:

Because I hate religion, I hate intellectual dishonesty, and I hate people who pick and choose things in their various religious texts.

So the emotion of hate and intellectual dishonesty (revealed by its containing conclusions which differ from my own) thoroughly justify aggression. What would it take to justify tolerance of a differing opinion in matters where conclusive evidence is lacking?

Perhaps believers should lead by example and demonstrate tolerance of atheists. They claim that is their policy but it only became that after it was imposed upon them by civil authority and force. Unfortunately Christian intolerance of non-christians much less atheists goes back to the beginning of their cults and continues to the present day.

Don't start a fight you can't finish.

Atheism is no insurance against faulty logic. In fact reasoning which starts with atheism as axiomatic suffers from the same narrowness as fundamentalist theism.

Of course it is never insurance against faulty logic. It is absolute insurance against taking imagination and fantasy as facts and physical evidence upon which all logic MUST BE BASED else it is not logic but bullshit.