(November 1, 2008 at 1:18 pm)Daystar Wrote: if they are wrong let them dream of fairy tales without harm. BUT if you are wrong think of even one person you might influence in your own ignorance to miss everlasting life in paradise Earth just because YOU don't believe in it. That would be a far greater tragedy.
I thought I'd just jump in
Now, weather I'm right or wrong I want nothing to do with your god. I want nothing to do with your religion.
I'm alive thanks to my parents not your god. I didn't ask to come into existance but here I am. Just because I exist doesn't automaticly mean I'm suppost to worship some twat who doesn't exist.
Now there is NO evidence to say that god is real at all. But even if there were. I wouldn't worship. I am able to choose what I am and what I do.
There are three sides to religion. There being with it, then theres being against it, and then there's taking no sides and have absalulty nothing to do with it. This is my side.
Using hell as a reason to follow just won't work since I don't believe in such a place. Right now the chances of there being a god and for which would mean me being wrong is very unlikely due to lack of evidence to support anything of the sort.
But regardless, I want nothing to do with your god. Real or not. There's a good chance that we will remain in reality and cease to exist one day. I've accepted reality for the way it is because you cannot fight it. You can deny it through belief but it won't change anything. Following a religion will not prevent your death.
There are 3 sides and I choose to not take part in any of it. I want nothing to do with it.
Theres my 2 cents.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.