There are plenty of beliefs I do not believe in that I often argue over. Not believing in something does not mean that it does not matter to you. That's clearly fallacious.
I beg to differ. If you take the time to type a response, it is obviously of importance to you. So we must examine why it is of importance to you. The most logical reason one could find for arguing something, is to change the mind of another. But how often is your rejection of God met with a change of mind in someone who believes in God? Is it safe to say, NEVER? So you aren't arguing against God in any realistic hope of changing anyone's mind, we can logically deduce this from the fact that you have never 'converted' anyone with your arguments, and odds are, you never will. You have to know this, you have to accept this is true.
If your purpose is not to change my mind, then what is your purpose for the argument. What would compel you people to spend hours posting hundreds of responses to a thread in a single day, if it is not to change the minds of others? My proven point has been, you are living in abject denial. The arguments are to convince yourselves of the idiocy you have chosen to claim belief in.
Now, some pinhead will undoubtedly chime in with the chortle;
but aren't you doin' the same thing, Dixie? And the answer is yes, but I have a completely different set of motivations. I am not living in denial of the truth, I
know the truth, and wish to share it with others.
Why do I want to do that? Because I genuinely care about people, and want them to live the most fulfilled life possible, and they can't do so as Atheists. This is why most people
aren't Atheists, they realize it is a completely flawed ideology and philosophy. It is
Nihilism.
So our motivations here are completely different, as I've established, now let's look at what you are really illustrating in this thread, better than I could have done alone. You realize that you can't change minds on faith, so you begin to ridicule faith, and intellectually brow-beat those who have faith, but you have faith like everyone else does. Do we not have faith that physical aspects around us will remain constant? We do trust that up is up and down is down, gravity will work, oxygen will still be oxygen tomorrow... this requires FAITH! We BELIEVE these principles of physics and science, because we must! In order to make anything in logic work, we must first have FAITH!
It poses quite the dilemma for your argument, because you aren't seriously trying to change minds, and you can't logically dismiss faith... you turn to science and seek refuge from the ass handing you are getting, but again, science fails you. If we observed the inherent behaviors of ANY life form, and found a unique attribute present in the species for all of it's existence, and the species was unique and distinct from other similar DNA species, science would conclude the inherent behaviors are fundamental and necessary to the species, and the theory would prevail this had something to do with the other unique attributes. That's what we have with human spirituality, the scientific evidence that mankind is dependent upon faith in spiritual belief, and this is what distinguishes us from other similar primates.
Oh my.... It seems we are running out of rational justifications for your motivations here! And as we peel back the layers, and discard the false perceptions, it becomes ever-more clear what your purpose is. People who are living in denial, depend on the approval and support of like-minded people. It is commonly known as "codependency" in the mental health world.
