RE: I am a 15 year old atheist: help!
August 7, 2010 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2010 at 9:13 am by solja247.)
Quote:We're not.
There is no evidence to show a causal relationship between intellect religious beliefs. Although stupid people tend to be religious,not all religious people are stupid.
But your forgetting something.
The majority of people, on this planet, are religious, so of course religions are going to have more stupid people than a minority group that havent been around that long (atheism)
Quote:Although the very brightest people are often atheists, not all atheists are amongst the very brightest.Really? Find that rather bold.
Charles Darwin (Agnostic)
Stephen Hawking (Agnostic)
Issac Newton (Christan)
Albert Einstein (Pantheist)
Antony Flew (Deist)
Just to name a few of the greatest modern men...
Quote:I have never seen any evidence that human beings a a species are capable of consistent rational thought or behaviour.Nor have I seen any evidence that proves our that reason and intellect are involved in the formation of our most powerful beliefs and attitudes. That may in part be why relatively few people allow anything as prosaic as evidence to change their beliefs or world view.
Of course we are not! We are emotional beings as well, our experiences greatly contribute to what we believe. However, they should not be down played at all, but exert your uniqueness and intrinsic ideas and views.
Quote:I must admit, adult converts to any religion bemuse me. I can only conclude they are damaged and emotionally needy human beings with a very modest IQ, such as say little Tommy Cruise and various other celebrity Scientologists.
You are not going to be respected with those ideas. you and other some atheists (and fundamentalists) have to under stand we dont know what the absolute truth is! So please dont make arrogant statements like Dawkins does at times, you may be wrong, I may be wrong, we will never know, not in this life time.
What do you think of Antony Flew then? just another silly adult?
I think you are a smart kid, but you need to be careful not to be smug and think you know better. I hope you do continue your pursuit for truth, but you should be objective and read books by prominent theists (NOT creationist propaganda)
Quote:Well one way is that we do not believe in invisible sky-daddies. It gives us a big leg up on the rationality scale.
Maybe I am a bit slow, but I fail to see how this makes you more rational, as I dont believe in invisible sky-daddies.
