(July 15, 2015 at 8:27 pm)Godschild Wrote: I know you all fight against the God of Christianity more than any other.Not all of us. Most of us discuss the Christian religion because we live in communities or societies where that is the dominant religion, and it is the one we were most exposed to. Someone in another part of the world may be much more conversant with Islam or other religions and would spend more time discussing those instead.
In any case, none of us fight against any god. To the believer it may seem that way, but my dismissal of Yahweh is not much different than your dismissal of any other mythical figure. If you rejected someone's claim that Yeti was real and he said you were "just angry at Yeti, so you struggle against him" you would (hopefully) laugh at him for claiming such a thing. Even the people who seem to "hate god" are usually angry at other people, who they either abuse verbally or try to provoke by making claims about their beliefs and their gods. For example, Minimalist has insulted god in pretty much every possible way on this discussion board. Now ask yourself: how many times have theists responded to his rants, and how many times has god?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
