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View Poll Results: What do you identify yourself as? | |||
Atheist/Skeptic/Agnostic | 151 | 70.89% | |
Catholic | 21 | 9.86% | |
Protestant | 24 | 11.27% | |
Jewish | 5 | 2.35% | |
Muslim | 2 | 0.94% | |
Philisophy (Such as Buddhism) | 10 | 4.69% | |
Voters: 213. You may not vote on this poll |
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2012-03-22, 08:27 AM | [Ignore Me] #376 | ||||||||||
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Nope. Do you generally go around believing things because they can't be disproven? I can propose to you an effectively infinite number of unfalsifiable claims to make your life even more magical, if that's your thing.
Again, do you treat anything else in your life in such a reversed-logic way? If not, why the special treatment for a theistic claim?
You have to draw the line between planets and smaller objects somewhere, and for a long time Pluto had been an exception for no good reason. Reclassifying Pluto was the least disruptive solution to a purely organizational discrepancy. I really don't understand why people care about it, either. Like we've hurt Pluto's feelings.
What created God? Oh, it just is, huh? Come on. Work from the ground, up. Last edited by Saerain; 2012-03-22 at 08:44 AM. |
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2012-03-22, 08:41 AM | [Ignore Me] #377 | ||
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*claps* Well said Saerian. You know what a fun excercise is? Atheists/Agnostics have to defend the existence of Greek Gods and modern creationists have to prove they are not real. Always enjoy that. Funniest bit is where we can explain dinosaurs as being slain by Hercules, or whatever other Greek hero we can think of.
Hey Duke, you asked for my reasoning, I gave a good bit of it (twice now), no comments on the reasoning? >_> Last edited by Figment; 2012-03-22 at 08:47 AM. |
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2012-03-22, 09:05 AM | [Ignore Me] #378 | ||
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Duke just think a minute before posting again, the burden of proof is on you, when you claim something exists its not for the people you've told to prove that it doesn't exist.
That and the history of science you're going against. Heres a nice series to watch on stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...B&feature=plcp Oh and also the founding fathers weren't all that god fearing tbh. I can find the quotes if you want but for now I'm off to work. Last edited by Checowsky; 2012-03-22 at 10:28 AM. |
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2012-03-22, 10:53 AM | [Ignore Me] #380 | |||
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Well done sir. Well played. Well fought. |
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2012-03-22, 02:03 PM | [Ignore Me] #383 | |||
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Boy, you are really sheltered. Look outside the US for once.
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2012-03-22, 03:20 PM | [Ignore Me] #384 | ||
In what way are Christians being punished in the USA? I don't understand that. What decisions by the Obama administration have been anti-Christian?
They are small in the US. What's more, because "atheist" doesn't say anything about the people themselves, they aren't at all a unified sort of demographic. So there is no "atheist lobby", or anything like that, and therefore atheists have zero power to affect policy. The best atheist groups can ever do is to challenge religious stuff which violates the Constitution, like for example Ten Commandments being displayed on government property in that one courthouse incident from some years back. Last edited by Warborn; 2012-03-22 at 03:25 PM. |
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2012-03-22, 03:38 PM | [Ignore Me] #385 | ||
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I think there are a lot more atheists in the US than many people believe.
According to polls 15% of the adult population has no religious belief or affiliation. 5.2% either didn't reply or "didn't know" The rest have an affiliation with some kind of religious group I know that I'm still technically "affiliated" with the catholic church, but I don't believe in a god. I have many friends who are in the same boat. I think a lot of people go to church out of an obligation to feel accepted and appear "normal". Go to a catholic church on any sunday and look at the amount of people there. Then go to that same church on Christmas day. It probably quadrupled. I'm sure at least 30%-50% of those people that only attend Christmas/Easter have no, or very little, belief in a god.
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2012-03-22, 03:42 PM | [Ignore Me] #386 | ||
It seems to vary a great deal between polls. But either way, the good news is that the numbers are declining. Few more decades and being a weirdo Christian who thinks gay marriage should be illegal and women shouldn't be able to use birth control or have abortions will be as passe as being a Klansman is now.
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2012-03-23, 01:07 AM | [Ignore Me] #388 | ||
It's just a matter of time. As more and more people grow up with the Internet, religion will become further marginalized. It'll be a problem in the US for longer than most other places, but it can't be stopped. The march of free information is the death of ignorance and superstition and, therefore, religion.
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2012-03-23, 03:16 AM | [Ignore Me] #390 | |||
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