Atheism doesn't need any defense. Proving God does not exist is impossible just as it's impossible to prove he does. Therefore, arguing the point only wastes time.
What really busts up atheists is the desire to be missionaries, to go forth and convert others to atheism and that's when they turn into as much of a pain in the ass as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Why should anyone change his or her religion just because you don't believe in it. They should defer to your greater intelligence, your deeper research, your better insight??
You're trying to solve the wrong problem. People can believe whatever they like and it doesn't matter so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. That part isn't the problem.
Where the problem really lies is in the media manipulation of religion for political effect. All of them talk like Christians but you look at what they do and you seriously think Jesus would have done any of it?
That's where the real problem lies and it's why Dawkins wastes his time and all the debates online are just wasting time. There are profoundly corrupt politicians who are being bribed through PACs with astounding amounts of money and they will say any damn thing they like to keep that money coming.
Neither party is exempt as you'll never see anyone pray so fervently as a politician nor will you see anyone more likely to order the deaths of innocent people, at least not in America. The root of the problem is the PAC money and not the religion as the latter doesn't even enter into it as any more than a tool.
The problem isn't Christianity as these politicians don't even faintly resemble Christians, they just use the words.
I'm not a Christian and it's not my purpose to defend Christianity. Christians can do that for themselves. My concern is a whole lot of atheists spinning their wheels as missionaries for atheism when there is zero chance of any useful outcome. Worse, it deflects attention from where the problem really lies.
(Ed: you're the only one who knows where the problem lies?)
Definitely not but I'm highly sure where it doesn't lie. Religion isn't inherently hypocritical and yet a position of opposing abortion while also endorsing capital punishment is obviously so. The religion didn't do that but corrupt leaders made it that way.
If you've got a better answer, let's hear it.
What really busts up atheists is the desire to be missionaries, to go forth and convert others to atheism and that's when they turn into as much of a pain in the ass as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Why should anyone change his or her religion just because you don't believe in it. They should defer to your greater intelligence, your deeper research, your better insight??
You're trying to solve the wrong problem. People can believe whatever they like and it doesn't matter so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. That part isn't the problem.
Where the problem really lies is in the media manipulation of religion for political effect. All of them talk like Christians but you look at what they do and you seriously think Jesus would have done any of it?
That's where the real problem lies and it's why Dawkins wastes his time and all the debates online are just wasting time. There are profoundly corrupt politicians who are being bribed through PACs with astounding amounts of money and they will say any damn thing they like to keep that money coming.
Neither party is exempt as you'll never see anyone pray so fervently as a politician nor will you see anyone more likely to order the deaths of innocent people, at least not in America. The root of the problem is the PAC money and not the religion as the latter doesn't even enter into it as any more than a tool.
The problem isn't Christianity as these politicians don't even faintly resemble Christians, they just use the words.
I'm not a Christian and it's not my purpose to defend Christianity. Christians can do that for themselves. My concern is a whole lot of atheists spinning their wheels as missionaries for atheism when there is zero chance of any useful outcome. Worse, it deflects attention from where the problem really lies.
(Ed: you're the only one who knows where the problem lies?)
Definitely not but I'm highly sure where it doesn't lie. Religion isn't inherently hypocritical and yet a position of opposing abortion while also endorsing capital punishment is obviously so. The religion didn't do that but corrupt leaders made it that way.
If you've got a better answer, let's hear it.
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