Fafhrd on 13/1/2007 at 08:13
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Mark my words, people. In 10 years time, a guy driving a VW Beetle with a Pro-Life sticker pasted on the bumper will drive up to your house during dinner time, knock on your door, smile, and hand you a pamphlet while saying "are you aware that everything you believe in is a lie?".
I'm fairly certain the Atheist zealot would have a Pro-Choice sticker on their automobile (which would probably be some model of hybrid).
Renzatic on 13/1/2007 at 08:31
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I'm fairly certain the Atheist zealot would have a Pro-Choice sticker on their automobile (which would probably be some model of hybrid).
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I'll take the crazy atheists any day. At least to them, their lives are worth something here.
You're arguing semantics, I'm arguing annoyances. I don't care that the Atheist might ultimately respect your or their earthly life more, it doesn't change the fact their fixation on their beliefs makes them the social equivalent of a case of crabs.
Shakey-Lo on 13/1/2007 at 08:55
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
And Shakey-Lo, are you really trying to compare an atheist organisation requesting donations with the likes of Pat Robertson?
No. I was merely addressing Dawkins' idea that people preaching messages on TV and trying to fleece people of their money is solely reliant on theism.
Dr Sneak on 13/1/2007 at 09:26
Taking all religious faith from the human race would just mean we would find other reasons to kill each other.:rolleyes:
Fafhrd on 13/1/2007 at 09:55
Quote Posted by Random_Taffer
Read the sci-fi short story entitled
Twilight by John W. Campbell.
It'll hopefully be good medicine for the science driven brain.
Or not.
Just a suggestion.
I take offense at the idea that a science driven brain would need medicine, and I'd bet money that John W. Campbell would, too.
Convict on 13/1/2007 at 11:02
Quote Posted by BlackErtai
There's a difference with them, though. I may think you're an idiot for believing in something without any shred of evidence, but I don't think that just because you refuse to accept the truth of the matter that you're any worse of a person. Ask many religious people about the moral status of atheists, and you'll get a rather unpleasant answer. Just because you're stupid doesn't mean I'm condemning you to a painful existence for all eternity, it just means I think you're stupid. There's a vast, vast difference.
I'll take the crazy atheists any day. At least to them, their lives are worth something here.
Being an atheist yourself no doubt? I didn't know that religious people personally condemn people to hell. :rolleyes:
OnionBob on 13/1/2007 at 11:14
Richard Dawkins's irresponsible "controversial cash-in at a time of huge religious unrest" prattling makes your threads look like dostoyevsky
Pop-philosophy airport bookshop crap is still pop-philosophy airport bookshop crap for idiots with 2 second attention spans no matter how many irrelevant degrees and qualifications the author has to try to back up their reductive and childish posturing
edit: on the upside, I think we may have reached the shit-stirring thread that finally gets strontium dog permabanned, so I say on with the show
Fingernail on 13/1/2007 at 12:29
the 8th day may be ideal but the whole procedure is still totally unnecessary for most.
/sidetrack
Martlet on 13/1/2007 at 12:32
What i want to know is why do atheists always want to talk about God?
What really seems to come out of these books is that the abuse of power, which has been held by the Church, is far more dangerous thasn religion. Anyway Dawkins is crap. His oversimplification of the subject matter and pot shots at easy targets dilutes any point he may have.
