(November 21, 2013 at 9:58 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: So your days of soul-searching have now come to an end?
No, of course not! But to characterize this whole process as one that we haven't even started before today is incredibly dishonest, especially when the inference you're trying to make is that we have secret, less than pure motivations for believing as we do.
My personal journey to where I am now took years, ditto for many of my peeps who went through far more suffering and religious doubt than I, and that's why it's so frustrating when christians breeze on in with this "atheists only believe like they do because they want to sin!" shit, or any of the other host of reinterpretations of what we actually believe. There's no possible way to do that, to rob us of our labels and motivating factors, that isn't hostile and insensitive.
But it's worse than that, because we've got to sit here and watch you all go negative, to cover for the fact that you have nothing positive. Evidence convinces, we've all said that over and over again, but all you give is spin, spin, spin. You've got nothing convincing, but apparently you just can't take it or something, because instead of just finding evidence, or actually examining why you can't convince us, like you claim you do, instead you lash out. You poke holes and discredit; this bogus claim, the "atheism=nihilism" lie that's still in your sig, all that shit a few days ago about how we wouldn't believe even with evidence... those aren't arguments. They're ways to make yourself feel better over your complete dearth of compelling material.
That's what's getting such a strong reaction here: your complete refusal to even consider the possibility that atheists might be motivated by anything other than some form of unfair bias.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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