• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    Love me militant atheists pretending they’re smarter than all religious people. I mean believe what you want but thinking that the universe is a coincidence doesn’t make you smarter than Einstein.

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      15 hours ago

      They’re probably smarter than most religious people.

      Most devout followers are afraid to question their religion, so they never gain a deeper understanding of it.

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          I unfortunately have the displeasure of talking to too many religious people.

          Most of them are dumb as shit and pride themselves on being morons. They’ve dug their hole so deep, they don’t know anything else other than to keep on digging.

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      It’s not a belief that it’s a coincidence.

      It’s an understanding that it’s a coincidence.

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        16 hours ago

        For values of “coincidence”. It’s not at all a coincidence that we live in a universe that’s capable of having us live in it.

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      Hi, im an atheist who got over his militant phase and accepts people for believing what they want as long as it doesn’t harm others.

      You’re a dumbass.

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      16 hours ago

      Do you have a point?

      You’re not saying anything remotely close to a rebuttal

      Religion is absurd, the very idea of an omnipotent god is a logical fallacy a la the omnipotence paradox, and it doesn’t add anything to humanity

      All it does is divide people

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        You’re not saying anything remotely close to a rebuttal

        I did.

        If christians (or any religious folk) were capable of asking questions, they would not stay religious

        -You

        My rebuttal is this: Most of the people who built modern civilization were religious one way or another, and the proposition that someone like, say, Isaac Newton was incapable of asking questions is frankly ridiculous. The very ideals of inquiry you’re espousing now were thought up and developed by Christians.

        Religion is absurd, the very idea of an omnipotent god is a logical fallacy a la the omnipotence paradox,

        All it does is divide people

        I mean I obviously disagree, but either way that is a completely different point than the one you made previously and I responded to.

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          Blasphemy was a crime in England during Newton’s time. He was literally forbidden from asking questions.

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              14 hours ago

              So if we banned religion and then bragged about how all the greatest people of our time are atheists, you’d be ok with that so long as a few people keep their faith anyway?

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                If I then tried to imply all atheists are dumb and only enlightened religious people are smart, yes “all the greatest people of our time are atheists” would be a great rebuttal in that situation. I never said that, though, so that’s a moot point.