RE: What can we do to promote Atheism? How can we unite?
August 26, 2013 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2013 at 3:21 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(August 26, 2013 at 9:56 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: Raelians are technically still in the atheist camp and importantly they offer the all important immortality, via resurrection tech of advanced aliens known as the Elohim who are 50,000 years more advanced than humanity. They only bring you back if you're good though. This way you can bring people into the atheist fold on mass. And you can still have Jesus, he was an alien/human hybrid his mother being artificially impregnated aboard a spaceship. Perfectly scientific with no supernatural mumbo jumbo, pure atheism.
As an atheist, I lack a belief in any form of deity.
As a rationalist, and a skeptic, I find talk of supernatural ludicrous until evidence is presented.
You need to stop conflating the religious idea of holding a supreme belief as central to ones life to an imagined equivilent in atheism, which has no such central dogma/'worldview'. It is simply the above. Some atheists believe all all sorts of mumbo jumbo, but I don't see a point.
(August 26, 2013 at 10:31 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: People in general like them so you'll have to find a way to get them into atheism while retaining everything they like about religion. As the Raelian movement as you can see has achieved. So if you want more than 2% of the worlds population to be atheists then it would have to be something like this. The hope of immorality and seeing your loved ones again and all that business will of course be maintained, the afterlife being on a paradise planet in outer space. Similar to Mormonism in a way.
Evidence for the above.
Also, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum