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Why atheism?
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#101
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:36 pm
Lmao. ChadWooters you know atheists would never answer a question like that.
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#102
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:36 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 9:05 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: Losty, somewhere along the road you bump into god, yes?

I simply suggested that you make a choice on what to believe.

That's odd. Humanity has walked this boulevard of broken dreams for a 1000 centuries and there has yet to be a deity that has made himself plain.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#103
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:38 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 10:36 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: Lmao. ChadWooters you know atheists would never answer a question like that.

That's weird, because two of them already did before you could even post that.
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#104
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:43 pm
Lol. Didn't see that. They should take the question seriously.
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#105
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:43 pm (This post was last modified: October 13, 2015 at 10:44 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(October 13, 2015 at 10:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The better question for atheists is this: do you hope you're right?

Nope - I hope I'm wrong, in that there is an afterlife, so that I can see the expressions on all your stupid, religious faces, when it turns out that Manitou, or Huitzilopochtli is the real god and you all end up in hell, having wasted your life on fantasy.

It's such a shame I'm most likely not wrong...
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#106
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:43 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 10:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The better question for atheists is this: do you hope you're right?

Pascal, is that you?

I don't "hope" because there are so many thousands of religions out there that it's unlikely that a relatively new one like Christianity is correct, especially when you realise Hinduism and others have been around so much longer.

Would it be nice to have an afterlife?  Depends what that afterlife entails.

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RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:44 pm
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#108
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:45 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 10:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The better question for atheists is this: do you hope you're right?

Bring some evidence for your gawd to the table and we'll reconsider your claims.
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#109
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:46 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 10:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The better question for atheists is this: do you hope you're right?


Right about what? That theists have not been able to meet their burden of proof? On that point, I am right. 


But more importantly, I am asymptotically close to certainty, that you are wrong.

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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#110
RE: Why atheism?
October 13, 2015 at 10:47 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 10:43 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: Lol. Didn't see that. They should take the question seriously.

I answered it in all seriousness.
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