RE: Emotional resilience and Philistinery
December 31, 2013 at 11:37 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2013 at 11:42 pm by là bạn điên.)
Rex:
I have no idea what ,exactly, it is you wish to achieve by coming here and calling us idiots because we don't play by your rules.
Firstly us negative (dawkins 6) Atheists do not say "there is no proof so there is no god" we say "in the absence of proof we will act as if there is no god unless someone tells us differently
I am no ex communist I am what you would call a 'blue grit' in your native Canada.
So lets deal with a few issues that you have,
We have plenty of alternatives to religion. If you talk about ethics then every Atheist I have ever come across normally has quite well developed ethics. Indeed because ethics are ,for us, about what is good I find them superior to Theists who say 'because God says so'. Your god is a nasty genocidal thug and your heaven seems to be living as a court apparatchik to Saddam Hussein.
It is not our business to provide 'comfort' for people. If someone was dying and was happy at the thought of meeting god then I would leave them alone. If they were terrified at Judgement I would gladly inform them they had nothing to worry about since there is no retribution from a genocidal desert wraith.
The most insulting, though, is your insistence that we are somehow philosophically lacking. I did my second Bachelors degree in Philosophy so I really doubt if your Philosophy is going to be better developed than mine but in any case the dearth of Christians in the subject (there is Alvin Plantinga and a couple of other non entities) are massively dwarfed by Atheist and Aptheists.
If you want to ask for specific replies then please number them and I (at least) will endeavor to reply to them but dump the superior attitude. We don;t look to theists as authorities.
I have no idea what ,exactly, it is you wish to achieve by coming here and calling us idiots because we don't play by your rules.
Firstly us negative (dawkins 6) Atheists do not say "there is no proof so there is no god" we say "in the absence of proof we will act as if there is no god unless someone tells us differently
I am no ex communist I am what you would call a 'blue grit' in your native Canada.
So lets deal with a few issues that you have,
We have plenty of alternatives to religion. If you talk about ethics then every Atheist I have ever come across normally has quite well developed ethics. Indeed because ethics are ,for us, about what is good I find them superior to Theists who say 'because God says so'. Your god is a nasty genocidal thug and your heaven seems to be living as a court apparatchik to Saddam Hussein.
It is not our business to provide 'comfort' for people. If someone was dying and was happy at the thought of meeting god then I would leave them alone. If they were terrified at Judgement I would gladly inform them they had nothing to worry about since there is no retribution from a genocidal desert wraith.
The most insulting, though, is your insistence that we are somehow philosophically lacking. I did my second Bachelors degree in Philosophy so I really doubt if your Philosophy is going to be better developed than mine but in any case the dearth of Christians in the subject (there is Alvin Plantinga and a couple of other non entities) are massively dwarfed by Atheist and Aptheists.
If you want to ask for specific replies then please number them and I (at least) will endeavor to reply to them but dump the superior attitude. We don;t look to theists as authorities.