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Do you have the right to be an atheist?

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Do you have the right to be an atheist?
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#151
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 9:05 am
(June 30, 2015 at 8:40 am)Easy Guns Wrote: So what he's really been asking all along is:

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Ahhh. . . NOW I get it!
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#152
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 9:22 am
(June 30, 2015 at 9:05 am)bennyboy Wrote:
(June 30, 2015 at 8:40 am)Easy Guns Wrote: So what he's really been asking all along is:

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Ahhh. . . NOW I get it!

Yep, it's the only question that's really worth asking.
Using the supernatural to explain events in your life is a failure of the intellect to comprehend the world around you. -The Inquisition
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#153
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 9:38 am
(June 30, 2015 at 8:40 am)Easy Guns Wrote: So what he's really been asking all along is:

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

And if no, in which direction?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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#154
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 11:58 am
(June 30, 2015 at 5:27 am)pool Wrote:
(June 30, 2015 at 5:23 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: So, by your logic, are we gods?

If a inferior race of aliens exist and we are superior to them which is probable if superior beings are probable so is inferior beings.
Then yes,by definition,not by my logic,we would be considered as gods by them.Someone already said this before me.

Now you switched gears again, from superior aliens actually being gods to superior aliens being considered gods. You dismissed the Prince Philip cargo cult on exactly those grounds. Now try the question again: are we gods?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#155
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 12:05 pm
(June 30, 2015 at 3:59 am)pool Wrote: @ Neimennovic,

xD That's a very faulty logic.

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#156
RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 12:38 pm
(June 30, 2015 at 12:17 am)pool Wrote: Am i supposed to just believe what you are saying and accept that?
Where is the evidence?
Your inane contribution to this thread is the evidence.
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 2:15 pm (This post was last modified: June 30, 2015 at 2:24 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 30, 2015 at 5:27 am)pool Wrote:
(June 30, 2015 at 5:23 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: So, by your logic, are we gods?

If a inferior race of aliens exist and we are superior to them which is probable if superior beings are probable so is inferior beings.
Then yes,by definition,not by my logic,we would be considered as gods by them.Someone already said this before me.


And there it is.

A complete misunderstanding or what 'supernatural' actually means.

Yes, it is possible that an inferior alien race, impressed by our drastically advanced technology, would consider us supernatural gods. But would we be?

Just because our technology looks like magic to this hypothetical inferior alien race, does not mean it is supernatural. In the exact same way that a superior alien race to us, would have technology that we can't understand would make them supernatural gods.

Unknown technology =/= supernatural.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 2:30 pm (This post was last modified: June 30, 2015 at 2:31 pm by Aristocatt.)
(June 30, 2015 at 11:58 am)Stimbo Wrote:
(June 30, 2015 at 5:27 am)pool Wrote: If a inferior race of aliens exist and we are superior to them which is probable if superior beings are probable so is inferior beings.
Then yes,by definition,not by my logic,we would be considered as gods by them.Someone already said this before me.

Now you switched gears again, from superior aliens actually being gods to superior aliens being considered gods. You dismissed the Prince Philip cargo cult on exactly those grounds. Now try the question again: are we gods?

I also want this answered. This issue has been presented you in multiple ways by multiple people now, and you haven't really answered it.
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 2:33 pm
(June 30, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Aristocatt Wrote:
(June 30, 2015 at 11:58 am)Stimbo Wrote: Now you switched gears again, from superior aliens actually being gods to superior aliens being considered gods. You dismissed the Prince Philip cargo cult on exactly those grounds. Now try the question again: are we gods?

I also want this answered.  This issue has been presented you in multiple ways by multiple people now, and you haven't really answered it.

Yes, we are gods.
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RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 2:36 pm
(June 30, 2015 at 2:33 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yes, we are gods.

Nuh uh, pretty sure I exist
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