Yeah that's one of my favorite things about euphoric atheists, they don't actually learn about anything religious, they just hear the word Christianity and go on the offensive even if its something they should like, like the Reformation.
Never Judaism, never Islam, never Zoroastrianism, or Shinto, or Jainism, et cetera, et cetera.
I hear a lot of internet hate for islam.
I am an ignostic. Although I have had only positive experiences with religion I just simply cannot believe in God because I don't know what the word "God" means. Many of these "Atheists" don't seem to actually bother defining god either.well as per usual for a thread involving religion this has derailed into debates about word definitions and people chiming in with their own personal beliefs- relevant to the topic at hand or not
Can we get back to the video of the guy making a tutorial on moving bibles away from the religious section of his public library? he tries to remember to claim its the historical section but religious slips through a few times!
Philosophical discussions aren't funny, deep thoughts is the place for that. Supreme Gentlemen chimping out way out of all proportion is, and that's what this thread should be for.
The atheism+ crowd were pretty hilarious- getting really mad at atheists for not believing in patriarchy and privilege without proof- yeah they got mad at skeptics for being skeptical.
It then morphed into a cult and unironically began committing all the sins it accused religion of.
theED portal is here: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/index.php?title=Atheism+&diff=prev&oldid=416805&printable=yes
I think it can be easy to wildly overestimate how much intelligence and rationality it takes to discard religion, particularly if you've been raised in a relatively secular environment. Unless you were raised in an exclusively religious environment, you may as well gloat about the intellectual qualities that led you to be in favor of democracy or against slavery.
I think it is important, if one is a critic of religion, not to accidentally allow one's criticisms to reinforce xenophobic political policies. A lot of Western governments are deliberately promoting what amounts to ethnic discrimination against Muslims, which is a bad thing, regardless of whether you regard the idea of Mohammed flying around in the sky and marrying a child as stupid and wrong.
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True. While we all have the right in what to believe and what not to believe in, no one should be obnoxious about it, whether it is Christians or atheist. It doesn't matter if one believes in a diety or believes there is no higher power, especially when not every person cares about what you believe in (which can at least be attested by members of this forum who wouldn't care if one was a Muslim or an apatheist so as long as the religious dick wasn't being swung around, trying to hit people in the heads).
"Scientism" is a double edged sword. On one hand, you have the people who say "because science", but do it without the data to back it up. Or use it to jump to an unconnected conclusion, like the stereotypical antitheist. Or try to somehow use science as a moral compass, even though science only describes what is, to the best of our abilities, at this current time. But then you have those wackos that say evidence is sexist, or flat out deny any genetic component to gender personality differences, all while crying "scientism!" at any data that says otherwise. I dislike the term because the crazy SJW types have been becoming more common than the militant antitheists as of late.
