RE: How can fundamentalists not wake up?
March 2, 2015 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2015 at 2:05 pm by Whateverist.)
Never wake a faith walker.
Admittedly, only on all too uncommon sense. So go right on about your business believing whatever to hell you like. I have no evidence that your fantasies are not real, leastwise no evidence which you can't twist, spin and turn on its head. This is 'murica damn it. You have a right to your own reality just the way you want it. Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain. You know the great gOZd is real by faith, all we have is reason. Pity us.
(March 2, 2015 at 12:07 pm)YGninja Wrote:(March 2, 2015 at 11:37 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: I used to believe in Noah's Ark and so forth, because I had been indoctrinated and had never bothered to reexamine these beliefs as an adult. I believed in evolution, dinosaurs, etc. while I simultaneously believed the Bible stories were based on real events. I didn't see the cognitive dissonance.
However, when I went to college and began to discuss these issues with friends, I rapidly woke up to the stupidity of my beliefs. It wasn't instantaneous, but it happened eventually. This was in the days before internet, and I was ignorant of comparative religion, philosophy, etc. that might have accelerated the process.
I just don't understand how people today can believe in Noah's Ark in spite of all the resources available through the internet (such as AF). How is that possible? I'm pretty gullible, but I eventually woke up. Many of these Christians are smarter and better educated than me, but they keep believing things that are ridiculous.
EDIT: I especially don't understand how fundamentalists can come to atheist forums and debate these issues without realizing that their beliefs are silly. This is different from those fundamentalists who don't think much about their beliefs.
Sure you weren't indoctrinated at college and told the truth during childhood? Do you think that your college is impartial, or your professors, or the ones deciding their wages and the curriculem? What do you ground that belief on?
Admittedly, only on all too uncommon sense. So go right on about your business believing whatever to hell you like. I have no evidence that your fantasies are not real, leastwise no evidence which you can't twist, spin and turn on its head. This is 'murica damn it. You have a right to your own reality just the way you want it. Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain. You know the great gOZd is real by faith, all we have is reason. Pity us.
