RE: In need of a more humbleness. Why condemning the Theistic position makes no sense.
September 21, 2014 at 12:20 pm
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My days of debating religion are long over, now I only seek what I can learn from it while soothing the flames of hatred and correcting voids of ignorance between both parties as best as I can.
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You can surrender to religion if you like, the rest of us will carry on without you. As for hating, my experience is that atheists hate ideologies that are used to hurt people or deny obvious truths. But rarely does that carry over to hating whole groups of people. Islam is a good example. Many of the atheists I talk with loathe Islam without apology, but hating individual Muslims? Not so much. Many of us are well aware that being raised in a religion makes it very difficult to see past it. Everyone who has left a religion is aware of how hard that can be.
Religious people, on the other hand, are pretty good at hating just about everyone but members of their own sect. That is kind of easy to do when your ideology includes the idea that god will has prepared a hell for everyone but the "elect".
Oh, buy the way, "voids of ignorance"? Clearly humility is way beyond you.
My days of debating religion are long over, now I only seek what I can learn from it while soothing the flames of hatred and correcting voids of ignorance between both parties as best as I can.
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You can surrender to religion if you like, the rest of us will carry on without you. As for hating, my experience is that atheists hate ideologies that are used to hurt people or deny obvious truths. But rarely does that carry over to hating whole groups of people. Islam is a good example. Many of the atheists I talk with loathe Islam without apology, but hating individual Muslims? Not so much. Many of us are well aware that being raised in a religion makes it very difficult to see past it. Everyone who has left a religion is aware of how hard that can be.
Religious people, on the other hand, are pretty good at hating just about everyone but members of their own sect. That is kind of easy to do when your ideology includes the idea that god will has prepared a hell for everyone but the "elect".
Oh, buy the way, "voids of ignorance"? Clearly humility is way beyond you.
