yes, this thread actually has kind of a point
Er... Aside from the fact that every Atheist has no belief in a deity or religion, where are no characteristics about us that are set in stone...
Saying you love Atheists is the same as saying you love Gamers, or any other form of classification that barely dictates ones behaviour.
Discuss how it began,
It primarily started when Charles Darwin became father to the theory of evolution through natural selection -- it was a somewhat reasonable, possibly explainable alternative to "God did it".
what sets it apart from other beliefs,
The loose term for an Atheist is someone who lacks a belief. The strict term that prefer not be used because of misinterpretation is someone who believes that a certain deity(ies) are not real, instead of simply not believing they are real.
the standing you feel it has in today's world,
A steadily growing one -- and that isn't necessarily a good thing as people now realize they can be utter ... let's not say, and "get away with it" now that they're not threatened with eternal Hell and such.
It is a good thing in that people do not believe what I think is a lie and hasn't proven itself otherwise... so... primary morality stands to reason but the people who seize that and become and Atheist in that sense aren't guaranteed to have that kind of morality in themselves.
How ironic :/
The title was just to stick it to Chidori360 >
You've always shown a substantial amount of maturity to us all, good sir.
If you want to bash Athiests or Christians or... anyone, really, do it in another thread.
Guess I'm not gonna make it long in here then. :P
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
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I usually see this done more as a hypothetical like saying "if god did exist" then working from there. Maybe you have had different experience with this type of arguing them me but that's just from what I've seen.
I believe I was one who waged that argument on occasion -- particularly involving the Crusades and etc, where he is supposedly represented by those acts... if he were real, he would do something to say he does not stand for the atrocities and deaths caused.
Suppose he does want that to happen then?
but what ever's going on up there would make perfect sense to anyone who new what he was talking about (read: A god.)
Morality is subjective and thus very easy to understand. It's common belief that allowing others to die -- especially if you created them, is the wrong thing to do.
You cannot argue that God has this Scientific formula that objectively makes him correct in doing that. It is subjective in that sense at
best and the vast majority -- including everyone that follows religion would agree with me when God becomes an evil and / or irresponsible (lazy?) being.
That statement had a negative amount of logic involved.
Indeed.
if they question something that God says then they are already acknowledging his existance while trying to prove he doesn't exist...so their debating can become very fallaciouse sometimes. Be careful comrade Atheists!
I'd like to point out that in this scenario it is genuinely not their acknowledgement of a Gods existance but rather a poor oration or poor interpretation of what they're trying to say -- it would be better if you asked them waht exactly they meant -- possibly throw out a suggestion adn then see what they say from there. :P
On Armor Games I haven't seen it much as a problem -- most peoples oration is pretty darn spot on (the regular posters in any case)
- H
