One Agnostic's View of the New Atheists

[JesusHChrist]

Gotta hand it to Randy. He's a provocateur extraordinaire. And mostly with copy paste.

[MTL]

Believers do tend to be more irrational than non-believers.  I recall someone once saying that the theory of evolution was a 'dying theory'.  They dismiss all claims that do not conform to their preconceived conclusion.  They readily accept the ones that do.  That doesn't mean they are stupid.  It merely means that their beliefs are so deeply rooted that they ignore reason in favor of faith.  

There are also atheists in foxholes.  The numbers are lower naturally because there are fewer atheists than there are believers.  You will also however not find atheists flying planes into buildings, or blowing themselves up.  

As for the idea nobody can be bullied into believing.. that's plainly false.  Children are bullied into it with the idea that if they don't believe, they'll go to hell.  That idea carries on with them through their lives.  They're indoctrinated from a young age, and with bullying are led to believe that if they do not believe, they will burn in hell for eternity.  That means many of them can't stop even if they wanted to out of fear (a result of the bullying)

So true.  I am Agnostic and Anti-Theist,
but to say that my Christian upbringing left no trace on my psyche would be false.

I wish I could say otherwise.

[MTL]

You know what I'd love? If Randy started one thread - one single, glorious thread - where he actually puts forward a point or an argument in his own words, and continued the debate by thinking for himself. I'd like that. That would be nice.

Yes.  I also think it would be nice if we could have chocolate-flavoured air.  I'd like that, too.

[MTL]

YOu were probably far too busy trying not to get killed.  And it isn't as if there is any fucking god to help out anyway.

Exactly.  If you're falling off a cliff face, trying to grab at a passing seagull would be more useful than calling on Jesus.

[KevinM1]

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Seriously though.... what's an agnostic?

Ahahaha!  Those Iro pics are the gifts that keep on giving

[Losty]

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Seriously though.... what's an agnostic?

Ahahaha!  Those Iro pics are the gifts that keep on giving

I'm considering requesting a few more so I can always have an Iro meme that matches my sentiment

[KevinM1]

Doooo eeeeet!

[Homeless Nutter]

[KevinM1]

"I see your copypasta is as big as mine. Let's see how you handle it...."

[Captain Scarlet]

I rather like the New Atheists. Not for their arguments, but their rhetoric. They have helped in at least 2 ways. 1) Prompted people to think, and 2) they had the balls to stand up and call out religion where the free press have caved in. Kudos for that. I can live with whatever other baggage comes with them. The folks who criticise them, don't want to face down the excess of the fanatics and we would be poorer if we didn't have them around challenging our thinking and pointing out some rather difficult things.