Thread: Atheists get all religious on religion.

You guys keep poking fun like there arent people that believe in shit others find absurd. Kind of reminds my of a radio personality we have here. Everyone is a crack pot if they dont share his opinion. Good thing we live in a society where people are free from persecution for their beliefs huh?

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

How is telling a joke persecution? Grow a sense of humor. I have no problem with people telling jokes about atheism or science. I've even told a few myself, but according to you, that must mean that I'm discriminating against atheists and scientists, too.

Of course, as far as the crack pot thing about creationists go, what do you call people who look at a metric shit ton of evidence that has been repeatedly verified, stick their heads in the sand, and go lalalalalalla I can't hear you? Hell, scientists and atheists did it about the ether, relativity, DNA, atoms, photons being particle AND wavelike, etc. I call those people crackpots, too. I also call string theorists crackpots, too. Hell, there's LESS evidence for string theory than there is for creationism. Hell, if creationism is right it's not too big of a deal, but if string theory is right (which it is not) the universe would have expanded too fast for even protons and neutrons to form. However, I don't hear you mentioning my critic on those topics, which I have been vocal about in the past. You don't call those "persecution". Go figure that you're a hypocrite.

You couldnt see sarcasim in that? Sarcastic but fairly accurate as well.

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

But aliens started it all.

Yeah, probably.


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Originally Posted by Kanati8869

It's like black... It may be the absence of all color, but just because it doesn't exist as a color itself doesn't mean that it is incapable of making beautiful art.

Black is all colors combined. White is the absence of all color.

And I have not read any further in this thread yet than pg 3

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Originally Posted by Potemkine

Just because you are an Atheist does not necessitate an acceptance of evolution, unlike many branches of Christianity which necessitate the belief in 6 days of creation.

It should also be noted that the concept is not uniform across all branches and is in many cases not nearly as simplistic (black and white)as your statement implies it to be.

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Originally Posted by Potemkine

Technically speaking, I am what is considered a "strong agnostic". The existence or lack of existence of a deity (in its current definition) cannot be proven. In essence, I am at an initial state. To make a claim, either positive or negative requires evidence. Since evidence for or against either argument does not exist, I remain at the initial state.

The only thing that exists is evidence that contradicts much, if not all of what most of the world's religions claim. You cannot claim that lack of evidence is evidence of non-existence. It is just evidence that contradicts the state of the world as defined by world relgion.

This x 1000

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Originally Posted by Potemkine

Think about it. Atheists probably share more in common with each other than JUST a lack of belief. A love of science, a love of philosophy, critical thinking, discourse, history, anthropology, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, ______

I bet they share a lot, if not all, of those things with most religious people as well. However the stereotypical derp about people of faith tends to make that a seldom considered reality.

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