RE: Hey Anti-Theists! Prove Your Claim
August 12, 2014 at 12:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2014 at 12:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Mostly because it doesn't matter. The claims themselves have power - even if what's supposed to be "behind the curtain" doesn't, or simply isn't there. For example, the sorts of shit that some people do as part and parcel of their faith (stoning, for instance) aren't shitty -because god doesn't exist- and wouldn't be any less shitty -even if god did exist-. It happens because people lend the claims authority, and it happens because people tiptoe around the basis for that authority, and it happens because people don't stop and say "just wtf am I doing?" for both of those reasons mentioned(and many others, I'm sure...go ask some douche holding a rock). If I wanted people to stop stoning people I wouldn't go about it by trying to convince them that their god didn't exist - I would simply suggest that it's a shitty thing to do, regardless. That they shouldn't do it just because god says so, and they shouldn't worship a god that says so, and that they should not love or wish for a god that says so. In short, stoning bad, mmmkay.
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