Can we get a thread making fun of religious preferences? Specifically atheism

Can we get a thread making fun of religious preferences? Specifically atheism.
Arguments or general discussion idc.

Also, what is your religion. OP is Christian.

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>religious preferences
>Specifically atheism
>OP is Christian
op is either a faggot attention whore or a faggot troll, either way op is a faggot.

Op is autistic

Yeah I'm a fucking faggot, but still, most atheists I know are like vegans. They literally have to make sure everyone knows they are atheist.

You know no athiests stop lying faggot

OP here.

To clarify, I am fine with all religions. Only religion I despise is Islam. Other than that, I have no problem unless they are spouting their cancerous bullshit all over the place. I had a moment in my life where I would've considered myself atheist, but that is long gone.

I'd barely consider myself Christian now.

I know plenty, it's obviously becoming a major religious preference nowadays, so how the fuck doesn't anyone know an atheist, funny little cunt.

religious preferences?

Yes.

Probably because they are intelligent enough to know religion is a disease and want to spread the idea of critical thinking and not being a dumb cunt who believes some old book without any proof or evidence. Or something.

I can see where you are coming from. Like I have said, mindless Christian fucks piss me off, but I still want to believe in something. Yet I am still able to think about anything logically without God's rules getting in my way. Or something.

honestly i really liked the spiritual vibes of the Tao.

But I mean its hard to look at human history and arrogantly say; "I know whats behind the Veil".

Believing in God defies any logical reasoning. It's fuckwits like you that help enable other fuckwits who use those same beliefs to commit atrocities. If every 'moderate' religious person thought about things logically and shunned religion, it would be a lot easier to block the extremists without meeting opposition from moderate fucktards who can't string a logical argument together.

When I went through my phase of questioning religion, I seriously considered trying out Taoism and many of the other very spiritual religions that mostly originate from Asian countries.

Also good on you for being first general discussion reply.

>want to spread the idea of critical thinking

BRILLIANT! All it takes to enlighten people is to tell them to be enlightened because you're enlightened and they're not!

It's not about being enlightened, it's about using basic reasoning skills. What verifiable proof exists that ANY religion is true?

I could say the same of Atheism, every following on Earth has the bad bunch. It's just your elitist mindset that Religions that follow a superior being are the most fucked, although I would say is for the most part true.

It's not elitist, it's the only school of thought that doesn't rely on huge leaps and "faith". I wouldn't call myself an atheist, more an atheistic agnostic, as I believe there's no way to know. I believe that religion can do good, but it can also do great evil.

It's more offensive to me that religious groups demand concessions despite having no evidence for their beliefs. They should be punished for not thinking about it logically.

"We want our views to be accepted and not to be ridiculed for them"
"Do you have any evidence for your views?"
"No"

So what I'm hearing is:
Islam is a religion of violence.
Let's get rid of it.

You probably know more atheists that don't have to let you know they're atheist. Sounds like confirmation bias.

Doesn't matter if it's a religion of violence or a religion of peace, it's promoting faith in things that you have no evidence for. It is literally enabling ignorance, saying it's fine to not think about something and fight for it anyway.

>thinking about it logically.

A friend of min who's an evolutionary biologist and devout Catholic were discussing conceptions of God and he put it to me like this: you're red-green colorblind, and when I look at the same things you do I see an extra piece of contrast that, while physically measurably is the same for both of us, is phenomenologically entirely different for me -- I experience God like that pretty much all the time, though more internally than externally; you apparently do not. (That is what he said to me)

So tell me about verifiable objective proof of the qualia of the color red, and you will be a world-famous philosopher.

>Completely ignoring Christianity's many scientific advancements
>Not realizing religion helps many individuals who are going through struggles

These individuals might just be the next Einstein.

Ridiculous argument. Laughable. "Proof is there but only people who believe can see it". Get out.

Yeah I know plenty that don't preach it, but I also know a good few who act as if they speak for the whole, just like some people like to blame people of faith. You can't place the actions of few followers on the whole. Which is what it looks like you are doing.

>Christianity
you fuck your neighbors wife, you are forgiven
>Islam
you fuck your neighbors wife, she is stoned to death
>Judaism
You fuck your neighbors wife, it's K he is goy

>Proof is there

He's not saying there's objective proof -- he explicitly said there isn't. He compared the phenomenology of God instead to the notion in philosophy of "qualia", which for an example I used the color red.

But you apparently lack the reading comprehension to figure that out.

It's also a complete misunderstanding of almost every "self-enlightened atheist" I've talked to that religious people claim their belief is based on the notion that there is some objective proof of said belief, or that their conception of God is a conception of some physical person or "man in the sky." That's pretty much just what the Dawkins-era atheist believes that religious people believe, which is why they all accuse Dawkins of attacking strawmen.

Damn... so close.
Also lol.

Any reasonable person capable of cognitive thought would not believe that a repeated story that's been handed down over centuries means anything and should be held up, sometimes above actual human rights.

Intelligence isn't the only thing to base your life around. It's obvious many people follow a faith just so they can meet spiritual/emotional needs to be happy, or at least feign it.

Crutch for the weak minded. Society needs to encourage the idea that you don't need religion to be a good person, and that it encourages people to be okay with accepting and believing things that have no real basis in reality.

Okay hardass.

That's what happens when you constantly read about fucking morons doing dumb or hateful shit in the name of religion, day in and day out. People need to be taught to THINK, not base their life on some old book that may or may not be total fiction.

>People need to be taught to THINK, not base their life on some old book

If you took the time to THINK, you'd see that suggests, along with the testimony of most believers, that their faith is not based on the book but on something else, with the book (if any -- most religions do not have infallible scripture) considered complementary.

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leaving a void where religion used to be isn't a good idea either, some loons need that shit to keep them in line

>inb4 religion also brings crime

better than the lawless wastelands society will bring as morality is slowly etched away because of slippery slope topics.

>let me watch kiddie porn, muh urges
>let me marry a child no fug I swear
>let me fug child she/he already my spouse

This kind of thinking assumes humankind will never progress or think past what is told to them in church.

Why can that religion hole not be filled by society itself? Don't kill people because it's wrong, don't rape or steal because it hurts other people. Not because you're scared of worse consequences after you're dead.

But where does the idea of that religion come from in the first place? The book, idiot.

Are you saying people believe in Christianity before knowing about the Bible? If the book is not infallible, where does the idea come from?

idk what to tell you man, that's too much faith in the collective. For every dude that feels guilty there are twice as many that only feel guilty when their caught, and even ten times as many that don't feel any remorse whatsoever.

I don't think religion will change that. How many people do you think truly believe that if they do something wrong, god will punish them? Many Christians lie, cheat, steal, kill

Jehovah isn't real, but if he is he's a cunt.

Stephen Fry says it best:

youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo

>I experience God like that pretty much all the time,
what the fuck does that mean?

how does he know he is experiencing god? could he possibly be mistaken?

that is some serious sophistry is that argument. he is rooting his "difference in experience" off of differences in sensory responses to physical objects. Extrapolating that idea to "experiencing god or not experiencing god" just doesn't make sense. what is he experience related to? Just the pure concept of god?

youtube.com/watch?v=C77sa7AD4WI

His argument seems to be that those experiences are directly linked to the stories in an old book, hence why people pick one religion that they believe is right.

Is it not reasonable to recognise that other people affirm their belief in a totally different God using similar experiences, so how can that be proof of any single religion?

Everyone says "I'm happy. I feel God." No one every says "God loved me enough to give me cancer." "God is so forgiving he dropped a house on my grandmother in a tornado." "I love God and obviously God loves me because he let my dad be robbed and shot by a nigger."

Nope but the hardcore fuckwits will claim "everything happens for a reason"

where are you getting these ratios from? how do you know those statements are anywhere close to reality? Just because they seem reasonable to you doesn't mean there is a shred of reality to them.

it's these kind of mindless assumptions and unchecked thoughts that enable religions to exist in the first place.

It's not even bait at this point.

I am not religious, I am able to differentiate between right and wrong (or at least what is perceived to be right and wrong in my society). I don't need religion for that, am I special? I don't feel like I'm any more equipped than anyone else other than I've spent more time thinking about it. If society encouraged this kind of thing, we'd be fine without religion.

You're going to get fuckwits, no doubt, but religion acts as an excuse for them. Without religion, they are just nasty, evil people and are easier to separate from the rest of society as they have no 'acceptable' banner to wave in order to have protection from some.

you can take off the fedora buddy this is more of a philosophical debate than factual.

What I was trying to drive home was that a whole lot of people are opportunistic and therefore shouldn't be trusted with doing the right thing for "society"

This is why I hate these conversations -- because you are inevitably way too ignorant to be so sure of yourself. If you like talking about religion and philosophy so much, you really should study it a little bit more.

First a note on reading comprehension: I said most religions don't have infallible scripture. Christianity is one religion of many.

A historical note: most of the New Testament books were assembled around 200 CE, and most were only written starting by nearly 100 CE, so Christianity went a good while without solid scripture. Then in the Western Church up until the Reformation, no layperson could actually read/study the bible unless they were all four of: rich, influential, could read, and knew Latin, so all they got was one line per week at Mass, which also was in Latin. After the Reformation the Catholic Church was still conducting Mass in Latin across the world until the 1950s, so the source of scripture was still one-line-per-day/week for the illiterate masses (as most of the world still was). And that's ONLY Christianity. So no, no book for the vast majority of Christians until the last 50 years.

Is there really a difference between someone who fucks people over for their own reasons and someone who fucks people over because they are doing God's will?

That was genuinely a typo, I meant if it's not infallible

IF IT'S INFALLIBLE* for fucks sake

Atheism isn't a "following," douche lord

No wait I've got really confused, that's exactly what I meant, it's your reply that threw me.

What I mean is that people relate these "experiences of god" to a book that could very likely just be a load of nonsense. Written 100 years after the events at a time when lifespan could only be 30 years or so. Why do unrelated "personal god experiences" serve to affirm people's beliefs in a book that is likely bullshit?

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Can we get a thread making fun of meats?
Specifically tofu.
Op is a Freegan, btw.

Why did you not read the post that explains why your insistence that the book is essential to the belief is likely bullshit?

Religion is just man made bullshit.

While it's true that you can't prove a god doesn't exist, you certainly can prove that all organised religions are a fiction.

Look at the Bible's translation history. Look at how Christianity just changes with the flow of society. Followers of Christianity today would be considered pure blasphemy 200 years ago, and vice versa. You wait for another 50-100 years when abortion is okay, homosexuality isn't a sin, whatever, just because they're things society have deemed immoral. The Bible has no meaning. Even its interpretation is nothing but a fleeting fiction.

B-b-but the Bible says the world is only 6,700 years old!

>inb4 trees older than 7,000 years old

A million religions and they are all wrong..except the one you belong to.

Gee,,,what are the odds?

Which post was that?

OP, you dumb ass faggot bitch atheism isn't a religion you fuck twat. That's synonymous with calling bald a hair color.

Hold the fuck on, if the book isn't necessary, where are people getting the information about god from? Is it being beamed into them through some sort of divine invisible WiFi

If it's not a belief in the story, and just a belief in a god, why do people pick a certain religion? Fucking stupid argument user, fucking stupid.

Did you ever stop to consider that maybe you don't fully understand what these people's conceptualization of God is?

As I said, you seem interested in this subject, so read some background on philosophy and the history of religion -- plato.stanford.edu is a good place to poke around -- and also talk to people you know and *only* ask them questions.

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The VAST majority of people don't a religion. People believe what others around them believe. Hence if you were born in Israel you'd be a believing Jew. Born in Saudi Arabia, a Muslim. Born in America, a Christian. People are products of their environments and too stupid to think for themselves. Those that can think critically become atheist.

Correct! Unfortunately some religions have put in guards for this by shunning apostates. In islam you get the death penalty.

Good way of keeping the members at bay.

That sounds like it strays away from major religions though? I understand people may have a different conception of god, but then surely they wouldn't need a religion or scriptures if their relationship was based purely on these personal experiences? Is it coincidence that these experiences seem to tie in with what they've read in scripture?

By this point we can essentially discount the scriptures entirely, surely? So then why do religious people study them to inform their religious beliefs?

Would they still worship the same god if they had never heard of the Bible or Koran? Why are these experiences almost without fail match the most popular religion in their geographical location?

Why do* these experiences

>Atheism
>Religion
Pick one. Atheism isn't a religion in much the same way that not collecting stamps isn't a hobby.

The smart atheists don't want to talk to you.