Atheist??
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cross-12 — 16 years ago(August 25, 2009 01:21 PM)
Atheists and the theists have one thing in common: Their views are based on faitheither faith that God does not exist, or faith that God does. After all, God's existance can neither be proven nor disproven scientifically. Therefore anyone who has an opinion about God's existance (or lack thereof) must base that opinion on faith.
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Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut — 16 years ago(October 21, 2009 02:35 AM)
False, cross-12.
That's like saying it takes faith in order for you to not believe in flying purple unicorns, since you cannot disprove their existence.
We don't believe in gods because of a complete and total lack of evidence. It's not a leap of faith. It's not a conclusion we come to. It's not a giant mystery where we take sides on the issue. Atheism isn't the answer to a question.
It's not "believers" and "non-believers."
It's the human race and some of them have imaginary friends (with all due respect).
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cross-12 — 15 years ago(August 19, 2010 10:54 AM)
I see nothing wrong in basing the belief that flying purple unicorns don't exist on the absence of evidence that they do exist. It's just a fact that some things can't be proven one way or the other and that one has to form one's beliefs on faith in the absence of facts one way or the other.
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darren_heeney — 15 years ago(October 07, 2010 04:53 PM)
"That's like saying it takes faith in order for you to not believe in flying purple unicorns, since you cannot disprove their existence.
We don't believe in gods because of a complete and total lack of evidence. It's not a leap of faith. It's not a conclusion we come to. It's not a giant mystery where we take sides on the issue. Atheism isn't the answer to a question. "
That's complete nonsense and just illustrates your complete lack of understanding when it comes to philosophical issues.
Firstly, if my memory serves me correctly "flying purple unicorns" would exist in our world/time/space and therefore we would be able to observe them. A god or diety from the Religions that I have studied personally would exist outwith/beyond our time and space and therefore would not be directly observable by us.
I can see that you, like many other Atheist's adopt the arrogant self deluding stance of some form of intelle2000ctual snobbery. All the time being so blinded by your arrogance you fail to see how irrational and illogical many of the arguements you present agaist theism are.
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Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut — 15 years ago(October 07, 2010 06:43 PM)
Wacky. If you're arguing that I copied and pasted anything in my post a year ago, I did no such thing. They were all my words, but you probably just mean that others make similar arguments. And of course they do.
For my analogy, if it helps you, you are welcome to put these flying purple unicorns outside of our solar system or even outside of our universe, and my argument is exactly the same. Again, my point was, without a shred of evidence, I personally find no reason to even consider the possibility. That is all.
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!!!deleted!!! (19664510) — 13 years ago(September 04, 2012 05:25 AM)
Fact: God does not exist.
Fact: Those who believe in gods are delusional.
Fact: Sam Beckett believed in God.
Fact: Sam Beckett was delusional.
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nilbog44 — 11 years ago(May 31, 2014 12:21 PM)
Your logic is hilariously awful. You can't prove something doesn't exist. I believe in the flying spaghetti monster. Ok now prove it doesn't exist waiting. You can't. See how bad your logic is? If you believe in god then the burden of proof is on YOU to prove he exists. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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lostcause31 — 15 years ago(October 09, 2010 11:26 PM)
None that have been practicing with any regularity. Before you start spouting off this and that go do some research and you will note that they were only xyz religion for the sake of xyz they didn't attend or do anything that would make you think they were TRULY religious. Understand that even as little as 50 years ago people who were non believers were severely shunned/looked down upon etc. Many brilliant minds of the past weren't religious due to a love of the lord but due to a fear of being outcast. That said I don't understand how people can believe in a "god" after reading the holy books that mention all the tripe they do and yet ignore rape pedophiles and whatnot.
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thesnowleopard — 14 years ago(October 06, 2011 09:19 PM)
Because none of the pioneers of modern science have been theists have they? Do your research.
Perhaps you should do some research. For example, William of Ockham (Occam's Razor) and Roger Bacon were both major pioneers of science and Franciscan friars. Gregor Mendel (genetics) was an Augustinian friar. Also, philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas, who has supplied much of the theory for modern logic (on which a great deal of the scientific method is based) was a Dominican friar. Astronomer Johannes Kepler used his discoveries to "prove" the existence of God and was also a professional astrologer.
There are many other examples, but I think the above suffice to disprove your claim.
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KevinWCuts — 16 years ago(September 05, 2009 04:28 PM)
Actually, Scott belongs to my church. It's called Agape and it's in Los Angeles. If y5b4ou've seen the movie The Secret, then you know what the New Age/Ancient Wisdoms tenets of it are. If you want to check it out, go to AgapeLive.com