[quote name='rabbitt']You didn't read all of my posts so, to me, it's clear that you're not looking for an adult conversation. Your first narrow-minded post, combined with your "yadda yadda yadda..." tells me that you don't care to even converse in a civil manner. You may as well not respond to what I'm about to say unless your previous words were satire of the typical religious person.
I said that there is not proof and that there never will be proof on either side of the argument. The incredibly low likelihood of god existing, combined with the overwhelming number of "believers" in America tells me that the religious would still refute evidence or find ways to avert their eyes should it ever come to it.
That said, this is something that no religious person should ever have to worry about facing because your ancestors were fatheaded enough to throw out a preemptive "can't prove god exists, so you can't say the opposite."
Your assertion that the internet is filled with godless bastards is baseless, though I am surprised (and simultaneously relieved) that this many CAGs consider themselves atheists.
Conversely, real life is filled with religious intolerance of every shade. The fatuous, credulous charlatans of every religion are more than happy to pretend that they know what god is thinking, and, indeed, with whom you should share your genitals (and, if you're a male, that the foreskin should be removed).
Here's immorality for you: having a delusion of a great being and making him into a fabricated story from which one can claim to be blessed by so that when at war, he is on our side. From this, we justify racism, slavery, "ethnic" cleansing, a thousand wars, genital mutilation, child abuse, homophobia, xenophobia, and sexual repression, just to name a few. Consider the chance of god not existing, and then who is it that becomes the child abuser, the homophobic, the slave owner, without god to take responsibility?
You misunderstand religious criticism as condescension. It's about damn time we took religion from its man-made pedestal and started inspecting it with a skeptical mind.
If you're not sure where to go after this, it's usually this point in the argument that the religious person asks the atheist where they get their morals from.[/QUOTE]
I don't read your posts since you bring nothing really original to the table. If I wanted decent skepticism I'd go read Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" or go listen to James Randi give a talk.
My assertion isn't baseless and dates back to Usenet days.
You entire post is saturated with condescension:
"Fatuous, credulous charlatans"
"It's about this time the religious person... blah blah blah"
"Your ancestors were fatheaded enough"
Yes "my ancestors" did this and that. You ever heard of "our?" I'm pretty sure our ancestors were the same.
"Genital mutilation"
Give me a break please. I suppose getting ears pierced for aesthetic purposes is sensory mutilation.
"The incredibly low likelihood of god existing, combined with the overwhelming number of "believers" in America tells me that the religious would still refute evidence or find ways to avert their eyes should it ever come to it. "
I can speculate too. Europeans never really did accept the heliocentric view of the world did they? They still try and find ways to refute it.
Your view of religion is at best jaded and at worst flat out incorrect. What it shows is you have little maturity when it comes to a discussion on religion and thus resort to the usual
"omgz crusades"
"u cut off ur peen"
"homophobes!!!"
Except you like to jazz it up with some bombastic language.
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ing sense (mainly centered around my support of same sex marriage, he couldn't understand how I could teach my children that homosexuality was okay).
