RE: Ask a former atheist
November 14, 2017 at 4:06 am
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2017 at 4:07 am by Aroura.)
(November 13, 2017 at 11:27 pm)pool the matey Wrote:Is that really the smartest atheist you know? Did you mean IRL or including online people? And are those the same arguments you see, for instance, on these forums?(November 13, 2017 at 3:44 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: How do you think god fulfilled this "intention"? Or is that just not worth considering?
Don't know how..
(November 13, 2017 at 6:06 pm)Cod Wrote: Anything under the sun.. Erm what are your thoughts on the plight of the Red Squirrel?
Never heard about it. Sounds pretty boring though 😋
(November 13, 2017 at 6:14 pm)Losty Wrote: Do you like avocados?
Never had one
(November 13, 2017 at 2:28 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
That's one of the most condescending things I've ever seen 😮
(November 13, 2017 at 6:14 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Do you always look on the bright side of life?
Wait, that's for Jews and Samaritans.
Never mind.
Having a positive outlook is good for the mind and body I definitely do have a positive outlook.
(November 13, 2017 at 6:40 pm)Wololo Wrote: How hard did you hit your head?
I didn't hit my head lol
(November 13, 2017 at 8:33 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Ask a former atheist: why, you know one?
I'm the only atheist gone back I know, though it's not a rare phenomenon. Most people have either been believers all their life and some turned atheist at some point and never went back, of those that went atheist 99% didn't even bother looking at different arguments regarding theism and atheism, the majority of their reasoning is "if I say **** you God nobody will smack me in the head so I can say that", one of the smartest atheist I knew I asked him to explain to me why and he went "uh well you see religion is real right? But uh the uh god is um fake".
Quote:Would you say you actually stopped believing in whichever religion you were raised in for reasons relating to your understanding of the world, people and yourself? Or did you just go into a snit for a little while cuz God didn't intervene for you the way you thought He should have? See, I don't call the second kind an atheist.
I think a little bit of both. The first time atheism even crossed my mind was when I thought there is only a 50-50 chance that God might be real or fake and I wanted to explore the perspective of others that think it is fake, I guess on some level I wanted it to be fake because I didn't want to face certain realities, so I went through stuff and stuff and built up more and more rationalizations on top of rationalizations but at the end of the day if a plane is crashing everyone is going to go "oh God" regardless lol
Also, do you think no atheists in foxholes is a good argument against disbelief? If so, why?
(November 14, 2017 at 3:48 am)pool the matey Wrote:(November 14, 2017 at 2:53 am)Wololo Wrote: Well, that leaves another question, what caused you to accept unreason?
religion is not unreason lol religious people are some of the most reasonable people I know
A person can be reasonable, but make an unreasoned argument.
Don't equate the whole person with a single position.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
