A beginner's guide to being an atheist, by Richard Dawkins

[Matt Dillon]

You don't strike me as particularly pious and devout.

Doesn't mean I don't know what the best way is, boy.
Simply put: I know what the standard is, but it ain't my place to apply it.
I'm just a human, too. With faults.
Ain't tryin' to judge on anyone else, lest it be done to me.
I don't care to get into that. That being said, I know what the ultimate standard is.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

You don't strike me as particularly pious and devout.

Lots of MAGAts claim to be Christians even as they post about shooting people in the head and continue to post racist and misogynistic comments. Weird!

 

[Cypress]

It's extremist behavior: they only see what they want to see and refuse to consider other possibilities. It's one thing to argue one's POV using logic even while conceding that's it's presently unprovable, but it's another to claim only their own view is the "true" view be it atheist or theist.

I like the atheist influencer Alex O'Connor. He is not stridently militant, he has polite interactions with reputable Christian apologists, he actually studied theology.

I think he's backsliding though. He started out as a genuine atheist, but in recent years he taken to calling himself an agnostic. It would be funny if he is on a trajectory to converting to Christianity, like Ayaan Hirsi, lol

 

[Matt Dillon]

I like the atheist influencer Alex O'Connor. He is not stridently militant, he has polite interactions with reputable Christian apologists, he actually studied theology.

I think he's backsliding though. He started out as a genuine atheist, but in recent years he taken to calling himself an agnostic. It would be funny if he is on a trajectory to converting to Christianity, like Ayaan Hirsi, lol

Yeah, there's something I will never think. Communists and Fascists that murdered millions were atheists in the previous century.
History is there for people to learn from, not be retarded.
Looks like you missed that memo.
Fuck your un-God-like world view. You suck.
Wallow in your ignorance. Good luck with that.

 

[Cypress]

Yeah, there's something I will never think. Communists and Fascists that murdered millions were atheists in the previous century.
History is there for people to learn from, not be retarded.
Looks like you missed that memo.
Fuck your un-God-like world view. You suck.
Wallow in your ignorance. Good luck with that.

Extremists of every stripe have hitched their wagons to crime and moral corruption. That includes atheists, Christians, and Muslims.

 

[Cypress]

Doesn't mean I don't know what the best way is, boy.
Simply put: I know what the standard is, but it ain't my place to apply it.
I'm just a human, too. With faults.
Ain't tryin' to judge on anyone else, lest it be done to me.
I don't care to get into that. That being said, I know what the ultimate standard is.

What good is knowing the standard if you don't even make a genuine effort to make progress towards the standard?

Most Protestants will say if you claim to be a witness for Christ, but don't see at least some moral improvement in your own life, then your faith is not really genuine.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I like the atheist influencer Alex O'Connor. He is not stridently militant, he has polite interactions with reputable Christian apologists, he actually studied theology.

I think he's backsliding though. He started out as a genuine atheist, but in recent years he taken to calling himself an agnostic. It would be funny if he is on a trajectory to converting to Christianity, like Ayaan Hirsi, lol

LOL As discussed several times, the most logical position is agnostic. It's the emotional types that argue the extremes.

 

[domer76]

I know plenty, you should learn you some. It might would make you a little wiser.
The world works according to the rules God laid down when he made it. Every time. Like clockwork, without fail, ever.
The sooner you realize that, the sooner you'll have a better grasp on everything.
Google "God and God's nature", boy.

Yahweh = Jehovah = LORD was a minor storm and war god. Live with it.

 

[domer76]

Boy, you are nowhere near qualified to make an assessment like that. I could absolutely own you if I wanted to.
We are not the same. You wanna see it happen? You will not like it.
And then there's that thing about how I know how the world works. I've done a lot of things, things that are not to be proud of, yet were done anyway.
But by The Grace of God go I.
I've had 14 lives. Cats have nothing on me.

Your god? Storm god. Just another run-of-the-mill polytheistic notion.