Quote from Sael
For years, I would still hold the rather absurd notion in my mind that god existed. That book persuaded me to stop being a pansy fence sitter, and I honestly feel relieved now, and liberated atop of that. It would seem that believers could spend their time more wisely helping society as opposed to praying to a fictitious god, but it doesn't matter how much evidence is amassed against any particular religion. As he put it, "most people are atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Atheists just go one god further."
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Burden of proof does unfortunately lie with beliefs because with different choices floating around, I will shoot for the one that seems most accurate.
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Burden of proof does unfortunately lie with beliefs because with different choices floating around, I will shoot for the one that seems most accurate.
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Today, from what I've seen, it's not like that anymore. Everywhere I go, there are some people who stoop to the level of just simply going "LOL RELIGION SUX! LOLOLOLOLOL," making pictures that make fun of religion or jesus, calling red states "Jesusland" in a derogative way with an indirect message saying that religious people are stupid, believing religion is the root of all evil not knowing or overlooking the fact that it is human nature that can make anything seem bad, believing that science is an enemy of religion when it is clearly not, making petty remarks against something they haven't even read, putting bad issue or person dealing with religion in the spotlight merely for the purpose of taunting, and most importantly not knowing anything about the very thing they hate. I mean it's fine to not believe and maybe have a dislike towards religion, but is it really necessary to go out and spout unnecessary crap which only makes you seem immature, even more hated, and unintelligent? Nobody will listen to you if you present your beliefs and thoughts in such ways, it'll only make you retarded. And sure you can say that there's religious people out there who are very intolerant of atheists, bash them, and make you cringe, but if you do the same thing back, you're no better; you're simply stooping to their level. I have seen atheist websites that present their views in an orderly and mature manner. This website, the skeptics annotated Bible, unfortunately is not one of them.
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