(June 26, 2013 at 12:37 pm)ShadowWolf1986 Wrote: Let's start here, Atheist seem fanatically obsessed with the notion that there is no God.
13 pages into this thread, and you still have no idea what atheism is, even after several people have explained it in clear language.
Atheism is the absence of theistic beliefs. Full stop.
Very few atheists claim to know, with absolute certainty, that a god does not exist.
Quote:They desire a world without "religion" where everyone is an Atheist. The governments that were Atheistic always had a godlike figure in the form of a man, such as Mao.
A world without religion would NOT mean that everyone was an atheist.
True, totalitarian Communist governments replaced the bad dogma of an infallible god with the bad dogma an infallible leader (or State).
Quote:Atheists would make good politicians with their ability to deflect almost anything.
No atheist on this thread have deflected anything.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
