RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 6, 2015 at 2:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 2:33 pm by Excited Penguin.)
Stupid as he is he does raise some interesting philosophical questions. These questions though, difficult as they are at first sight, they can and were resolved already by proeminent philosophers. I would suggest that pool studied philosophy of language first and foremost. That is, if he is not too lazy to do so.
He likes me because I take his erroneous and chaotic statements and make sense of them as best I can, transform them in something more tangible and logical and then talk to him as though he was consistent from the very beginning. I think more of us should do this. Not everyone has the same tools of reason at his side as some of us do. If they did, they wouldn't need our help in the first place. So this begs the question why are we even atheists if all we do is try and reason with theists and stupid people exactly as we would with other rational people like ourselves? We should rather get to down to everybodies levels and try to reason with them instead of expecting them to reach logical conclusions on their own. Bombarding them with obviousness and being blunt doesn't help in the least if the person concerned only speaks the following languages: stupid and emotion.
Atheism needs more tact and tactic and less intellectual tantrums.
He likes me because I take his erroneous and chaotic statements and make sense of them as best I can, transform them in something more tangible and logical and then talk to him as though he was consistent from the very beginning. I think more of us should do this. Not everyone has the same tools of reason at his side as some of us do. If they did, they wouldn't need our help in the first place. So this begs the question why are we even atheists if all we do is try and reason with theists and stupid people exactly as we would with other rational people like ourselves? We should rather get to down to everybodies levels and try to reason with them instead of expecting them to reach logical conclusions on their own. Bombarding them with obviousness and being blunt doesn't help in the least if the person concerned only speaks the following languages: stupid and emotion.
Atheism needs more tact and tactic and less intellectual tantrums.