RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 15, 2015 at 1:01 pm
(July 15, 2015 at 12:38 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ...
I've been paying particular attention to how often Islam comes up, and I'm not counting the times Christianity get's brought up when having a discussion with me... since it would make sense that it would.
The explanation for that has already been given, which you have seen, because you quoted it:
(July 15, 2015 at 12:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 15, 2015 at 11:59 am)Rhythm Wrote: ...
Most of the folks here come from christianized countries, so when they think of gods, they think of the christian gods. We get the odd member from an islamic country, and they're predictably focused on allah. That's all there really is to that.
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Since most of the people coming to preach to us seem to be Christians, we talk about Christianity more than Islam. Since most of the active people posting here seem to come from countries where Christianity is the biggest religion, we talk about Christianity more than Islam.
There is no conspiracy or anything like that. You can see that when some Muslims come to preach here, they get the same sort of treatment as the Christian preachers. Their silly ideas are treated with disdain and contempt, just like the silly Christian ideas. If we had Hindu preachers here, I expect we would see their silly views treated in much the same way. But if they do not come here, then we are not going to talk about their silly ideas so much.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
