(December 1, 2019 at 3:13 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(December 1, 2019 at 2:54 pm)Bri anSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, you don't 'know' that Islam is true, you merely believe it to be so. In this sense, Islam is no different than every other religion - you've all got the equal arrogance of assuming that you and only you are possessors of some mighty, revealed Truth.
I'll take my provisional atheism over your imagined certitude any day of the week.
Boru
Yeah, any religion is no different than any other religion. Judge is tired to look at what each defendant has to say .. gave'em all the death penalty! Great reasoning.
Islam is the only religion that makes any kind of challenge to people who don't believe in it. Monotheism is a much more respectable position than turning your back to the innumerable signs of purpose in this world and lazily claim you saw no evidence.
(December 1, 2019 at 12:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Total submission to a celestial dictator through a short life and then for eternity.
No thanks.
Clearly Mr. Hitchens made you all allergic to submission. Refusing to worship just because it doesn't massage your ego is the utmost form of arrogance all religions throughout history condemned.
Nothing to fo with ego, son.
Even IF your god, the Abrahamic on, was proven to exist, which it hasn’t, it’s books, if true, show it to be a vicious, jealous, imperious being that needs the undying devotion of humanity to stroke its own ego.
Because of those traits it would be worth believing in but totally unworthy of worship.
Oh, and I felt that way BEFORE I read anything from Hitchens.
Dying to live, living to die.
