RE: Atheism, Theism, Science & Philosophy
April 21, 2013 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2013 at 7:10 pm by Whateverist.)
(April 21, 2013 at 1:08 pm)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: 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.
What?! You want a piece of me? YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?
Well that would be fine but I'm not sure what you'd like to fight about. I don't disagree that Christians -in particular among theists- could stand to be much more tolerant. However I don't think atheists get a pass on blind faith or rudeness until that happens.
(April 21, 2013 at 1:08 pm)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote:me Wrote: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.
No it isn't. Is it your fantasy that it is rational to be rational or that you are fully conscious of all the reasons for all your beliefs? If so then you have a faith based belief there which your atheism failed to guard you from falling into. Neither is your atheism responsible for your faulty logic. I'm an atheist but I don't jump to those conclusions. You need to examine your assumptions.
