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Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
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March 18, 2016 at 5:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 5:57 pm by Cyberman.)
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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March 18, 2016 at 6:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 6:23 pm by Simon Moon.)
In a epistemological discussions and debates, lack of belief is all that atheists need to defend. Even if they actually hold a stronger position.
Because lack of belief is the default position for epistemological claims. To use Matt Dillahunty's hypothetical; there is a jar with an unknown number of gumballs. It is true, that there is either an even number, or an odd number. If someone claims that there is an even number, the correct position on their claim, is not to actively disbelieve them. The correct position is to lack belief that they are correct, whether they claim there was an even number or an odd number. Lacking belief that they are correct, does not mean that you are taking the counter positive position, either. 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.  RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 18, 2016 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 6:29 pm by ignoramus.)
I am an ignorant atheist.
I haven't read any books or studied or anything. To know God must be an acquired taste to which I am not privy.
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear. 
FebruaryOfReason
Super cuddly reformed bastard  Religious Views: Pray for me. And I'll think for you. RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 18, 2016 at 6:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 7:05 pm by FebruaryOfReason.)
I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty.
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March 18, 2016 at 7:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 7:11 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
I believe it's a twisted fantasy story. Does that work?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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March 18, 2016 at 7:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 7:14 pm by KevinM1.)
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
The best I can do? It feels like the only thing I can do. It wasn't actually a choice, it was more of a revelation. I simply realized, one evening, listening to a bible reading, that I no longer believed any of it . . . after 46 years of calling myself a christian. The longer I go, the more I learn, the more I marvel that I ever did believe. I mean, you really, really have to turn off critical thinking to swallow most of it.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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