Dealing with ignorant people

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theVoid:
It is incorrect to take something that makes people happy, but the idea that they need god to be happy is an illusion.

The problem is not that people feel they will be unhappy if they don't believe in God, it's their communities, families and friends who can reach an extreme level of intolerance for other peoples opinions and reject the person who lost their faith - that person will become isolated and alone, something that they fear so much that they won't admit their disbelief publicly and may never feel comfortable doing so.

The topic of religion could always be about selling a social network while the belief system is just an auxillary, or otherwise an illusion.
I wonder what proportion of 'believers' literally don't believe in any of it. More importantly, how they put up with it if they don't!

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theVOID Wrote:
A lot of the time you will find that Theists will completely dodge questions (Yes i'm talking about you, frodo) or when their conclusion from reading of the bible is disagreed upon by either Atheists or those from other denominations they will claim things like "you need more background info to understand it" or "you didn't correctly assess which are metaphor and which are literal" or "you didn't want to believe it enough" - all of which are complete cop-outs that wreak of special pleading (Once again, take frodo for example).

fr0d0 Wrote:
That's no more than a convenient way to dismiss something you lack understanding of.

If you're going to literally interpret what is always symbolic then yes I'm going to call you a fool. Yes the bible can be complex and pleading ignorance is also fallacious.

Here we have a perfect example of someone who is blind to their own indoctrination. The seemingly witty claim to dismissing actually counter-contradicts itself in a self reflexive dismissal of its own.