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wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
#31
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
Well, from what I understand people come here to better understand atheism. Now the problem is that most of religious people have about four "arguments" and no matter how corny or uneducated these "arguments" are they are so excited about them and start numerous topics with them, which they usually are:

- you can't see air, or pain or love - therefore God exist
-science can't explain something at the moment, therefore this is god, god exists
-religion feels good therefore god exists
-they themselves don't understand some particular branch of science or can't see that something is a fraud they conclude god exists


So instead of picking up a science book, and actually learning, they come here and make total idiots of themselves, they don't want to listen and don't understand why we're so angry.
For starters there are so many science writers that write about science that really anyone with normal intelligence can understand. Really, religious people, if you plan to open another topic with some of the upper "arguments" for god's existence as main theme read a science book first and I'll give you recommendations:

-"Magic of Reality" by Richard Dawkins;

-books by Isaac Asimov like "Wellsprings of Life" which is about evolution and he also wrote numerous other books aimed to be easily understood like three tomes on physics that truly anybody can understand physics, or some of his books of essays; or legendary "Asimov's New Guide to Science"

-books of essays by Stephen Jay Gould. He really gave some thorough and simple explanation of scientific concepts like evolution

-"Flim-Flam!" by James Randi will really help you to think critically especially if you think ghosts, demons, holy men, gods and aliens are all around us.

Really, read these books and then come here. It will make our job easier, because for the most of the time we atheists have to educate you in stuff you were supposed to learn in school, so your arguments are not even laughably stupid but tragically stupid. It's not a shame that if you missed the opportunity to get educated to start now, shameful is still refusing to do it in-spite the informational age we live in.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#32
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
Why do ugly people attack ugly people? Atheist infighting was never a nice thing to happen.
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#33
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
(January 22, 2016 at 12:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I thought I knew, but some of these posts make me forget. Why do we tolerate posters who have nothing to say but something ugly about atheism?

I couldn't go to a Christian form and say "all christians are closet psychopaths."

Will someone remind me what this is for?

I could say something about lack of censorship and it probably would be true. But there could be other reasons and having something to laugh about may be one of them.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin.
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#34
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
I personally don't think muzzling kooks is productive. I'll be happy to give them a bullhorn to increase the number of rational people their message reaches.
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#35
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
Because you'd have no fun without us.
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#36
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
(January 22, 2016 at 12:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I thought I knew, but some of these posts make me forget. Why do we tolerate posters who have nothing to say but something ugly about atheism?

I couldn't go to a Christian form and say "all christians are closet psychopaths."

Will someone remind me what this is for?
Though I do not agree with what you say, I defend to the death your right to say it.
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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#37
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
(January 28, 2016 at 8:37 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Because you'd have no fun without us.

Yeah, a big high-fiving atheist circle jerk would definitely be boring.
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#38
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
(January 28, 2016 at 8:37 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Because you'd have no fun without us.

I do appreciate your contributions to the forum, even if I disagree with everything you have to say. Tongue
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#39
RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
(January 25, 2016 at 11:13 pm)Annoyingbutnicetheist Wrote: Why do ugly people attack ugly people? Atheist infighting was never a nice thing to happen.

Atheist infighting?  This happens?   Really?   Show us an example.   
The OP is not infighting.  It's asking why theists are allowed to come here and start posts that are full of elementary-playground-level insults.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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#40
wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
(January 28, 2016 at 8:37 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Because you'd have no fun without us.

This is a fact! [emoji8]
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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