We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
Phantasmal (09-09-2018)
leaningright (09-09-2018)
RINO is the term for that rare Republican who puts country above party.
Right wing = lie, lie, and lie some more.
"When I am president I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to play golf" Donald J. Trump, world class snake oil salesman and compulsive golfer August 2016
The definition of "racist" as "anyone who is white" is itself racist.
Originally Posted by Colin Powell
Actually...that is not the meaning of the word. It is the way the word is most often used at this time.
In any case, what you quoted me saying stands.
There are people who "believe" there is a GOD.
There also are people who "believe" there are no gods.
Both of those groups are people who do "believing"...albeit in opposite directions.
Essentially they are blindly guessing one way or the other...and calling their blind guess a "belief."
Nothing wrong with that...but that is what they are doing.
bhaktajan (09-14-2018)
Actually, the dictionary meaning of the word is: "a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods."
"a" when used as a prefix to a noun, means "without'. So atheism means "without theism" or without belief in the existence of a god or gods.
Exactly. There's zero evidence for either set of beliefs. Which makes the belief that there are no gods the one more likely to be correct.In any case, what you quoted me saying stands.
There are people who "believe" there is a GOD.
There also are people who "believe" there are no gods.
Both of those groups are people who do "believing"...albeit in opposite directions.
Essentially they are blindly guessing one way or the other...and calling their blind guess a "belief."
Nothing wrong with that...but that is what they are doing.
RINO is the term for that rare Republican who puts country above party.
Right wing = lie, lie, and lie some more.
"When I am president I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to play golf" Donald J. Trump, world class snake oil salesman and compulsive golfer August 2016
The definition of "racist" as "anyone who is white" is itself racist.
Originally Posted by Colin Powell
Bonefide atheist/atheism exists in as bonefide school of thought: Buddhism or Hindu Advaita-ism.
Did ya'll know that?
Aside from that ANY so called self-proclaimed atheist is just a coffee house bohemian poet who thinks they know it.
Atheism has long ago been codified in the "Buddhist" and Hindu "Advaita" treatises.
Cool man cool
As I said, that is not the meaning of the word...it simply is the way it is used most often these days. That was not always the case. I doubt you could find a dictionary published prior to (let's say) 1950 that uses that. Prior to the technology age, the meaning most often used was, "Someone who asserts that no gods exist."
That IS NOT its etymology. In fact, if you look in an etymological dictionary, you will see that atheism came into the English language BEFORE theism...so it could NOT have derived that way."a" when used as a prefix to a noun, means "without'. So atheism means "without theism" or without belief in the existence of a god or gods.
The word comes to us from the Greek, through the French...and its actual etymology is "a" (without) + "theos" (a god) = without a god. (I needn't point out that asserting one is without a god necessitates asserting there are no gods.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/athe...online_v_18013
That is not logic...it is a gratuitous conclusion...based on nothing.Exactly. There's zero evidence for either set of beliefs. Which makes the belief that there are no gods the one more likely to be correct.
There is no logical way to conclude "it is more likely that there is a GOD than that there are no gods." AND...there is no logical way to conclude "it is more likely that there are no gods than that there is at least one GOD."
Both are nothing more than blind guesses (often with lipstick applied and called "beliefs.")
atheism is the only belief system that condemns its own doctrine........"thou shall not believe that its absolutely true that there is no god".......
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