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Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 7:55 am
Real question here, I mean most people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science. So I ask you, in the scenario that you can't reconcile your faith with science does that make you smart that you ditched your old beliefs or does that make you an idiot because you couldn't conceive of a way in which you would still believe in God even if the book were verifiably proven to be wrong. Which leads us to the first scenario, you'd have to be vexed at God in order for you to stop believing in this force that governs the universe. Which means that in order to be vexed at someone you'd have to let your emotions control you, so in this light Atheists are just idiots who couldn't reconcile their faith with science and let their emotions control their line of thinking.
It wouldn't seem to me that these people are critical thinkers at all but people who lack the capacity for true critical thought otherwise surely they would be able to reconcile some belief in a power that is higher than them in this universe. Rather I feel they like to just stroke their own egos boasting themselves as intellectuals while berating someone as 'stupid' for cherishing their faith. Envy no doubt.
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 8:02 am
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If I’m vexed at god then I wouldn’t be an atheist!
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 8:24 am
There have been thousands of gods, can you be more specific as to which one?
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 8:51 am
(January 3, 2024 at 7:55 am)Authari Wrote: Real question here, I mean most people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science. So I ask you, in the scenario that you can't reconcile your faith with science does that make you smart that you ditched your old beliefs or does that make you an idiot because you couldn't conceive of a way in which you would still believe in God even if the book were verifiably proven to be wrong. Which leads us to the first scenario, you'd have to be vexed at God in order for you to stop believing in this force that governs the universe. Which means that in order to be vexed at someone you'd have to let your emotions control you, so in this light Atheists are just idiots who couldn't reconcile their faith with science and let their emotions control their line of thinking.
It wouldn't seem to me that these people are critical thinkers at all but people who lack the capacity for true critical thought otherwise surely they would be able to reconcile some belief in a power that is higher than them in this universe. Rather I feel they like to just stroke their own egos boasting themselves as intellectuals while berating someone as 'stupid' for cherishing their faith. Envy no doubt.
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 9:14 am
Well I believe in God because fuck you that's why, I don't think I'm smarter than any of the people here though.
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 9:47 am
Authari Wrote:people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God
How does one get angry (vexed) at someone who doesn't exist? Are you angry at Robin Hood?
Authari Wrote:or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science
Yes, atheists can not reconcile magic with reality.
Authari Wrote:I feel they like to just stroke their own egos boasting themselves as intellectuals while berating someone as 'stupid' for cherishing their faith.
And what are you stroking on yourself by calling atheists stupid?
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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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 10:13 am
This thread belongs in the "Stupid things Religious People Say" thread.
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 10:26 am
(January 3, 2024 at 7:55 am)Authari Wrote: Real question here, I mean most people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science. So I ask you, in the scenario that you can't reconcile your faith with science does that make you smart that you ditched your old beliefs or does that make you an idiot because you couldn't conceive of a way in which you would still believe in God even if the book were verifiably proven to be wrong. Which leads us to the first scenario, you'd have to be vexed at God in order for you to stop believing in this force that governs the universe. Which means that in order to be vexed at someone you'd have to let your emotions control you, so in this light Atheists are just idiots who couldn't reconcile their faith with science and let their emotions control their line of thinking.
It wouldn't seem to me that these people are critical thinkers at all but people who lack the capacity for true critical thought otherwise surely they would be able to reconcile some belief in a power that is higher than them in this universe. Rather I feel they like to just stroke their own egos boasting themselves as intellectuals while berating someone as 'stupid' for cherishing their faith. Envy no doubt.
they can't reconcile their Faith with Science?? I don't have a faith to reconcile, and never did have
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 10:50 am
(January 3, 2024 at 10:26 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: (January 3, 2024 at 7:55 am)Authari Wrote: Real question here, I mean most people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science. So I ask you, in the scenario that you can't reconcile your faith with science does that make you smart that you ditched your old beliefs or does that make you an idiot because you couldn't conceive of a way in which you would still believe in God even if the book were verifiably proven to be wrong. Which leads us to the first scenario, you'd have to be vexed at God in order for you to stop believing in this force that governs the universe. Which means that in order to be vexed at someone you'd have to let your emotions control you, so in this light Atheists are just idiots who couldn't reconcile their faith with science and let their emotions control their line of thinking.
It wouldn't seem to me that these people are critical thinkers at all but people who lack the capacity for true critical thought otherwise surely they would be able to reconcile some belief in a power that is higher than them in this universe. Rather I feel they like to just stroke their own egos boasting themselves as intellectuals while berating someone as 'stupid' for cherishing their faith. Envy no doubt.
they can't reconcile their Faith with Science?? I don't have a faith to reconcile, and never did have
If a god made everything then where was he/it before he made it?
Outside of time and space.
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RE: Do you think Atheists are stupid?
January 3, 2024 at 11:24 am
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(January 3, 2024 at 7:55 am)Authari Wrote: Real question here, I mean most people become Atheists because either one they're vexed at God or two because they can't reconcile their Faith with Science. So I ask you, in the scenario that you can't reconcile your faith with science does that make you smart that you ditched your old beliefs or does that make you an idiot because you couldn't conceive of a way in which you would still believe in God even if the book were verifiably proven to be wrong. Which leads us to the first scenario, you'd have to be vexed at God in order for you to stop believing in this force that governs the universe. Which means that in order to be vexed at someone you'd have to let your emotions control you, so in this light Atheists are just idiots who couldn't reconcile their faith with science and let their emotions control their line of thinking.
It wouldn't seem to me that these people are critical thinkers at all but people who lack the capacity for true critical thought otherwise surely they would be able to reconcile some belief in a power that is higher than them in this universe. Rather I feel they like to just stroke their own egos boasting themselves as intellectuals while berating someone as 'stupid' for cherishing their faith. Envy no doubt.
One significant aspect of critical thought is the rejection of propositions for which there are no sufficient reason for believing them to be true.
But to answer your main question, I’m happy to stipulate that some atheists are stupid. I know atheists who believe in astrology, for example, which is a mind-numbingly stupid thing to do.
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