PINK wrote:Up until then I respected your views and tried to understand why you would think so, but...
The term 'narrow minded' straight from the dictionary is 'having a biased or illiberal viewpoint'. So you saying '..I AM saying that all religions are not only ridiculous, they're also lying, destructive, immoral, evil, disgusting organizations...' is biased based on fact that you don't believe in God. Okay those are just the facts.
To begin, it's hilarious you fail to see how much ignorance, arrogance and irony your post reeks of. Let me just pop on my nose-peg. Okay...
Firstly, narrow-minded can be defined, loosely - As bigotry. I took the loosest definition to be apparent since we're speaking on a very loose, broad scale.
So, saying that there is no god when there is not one single scrap of evidence for any god, when the idea itself defies logic is NOT bigotry. This view is not informed by my personal conviction. You fail to see the irony in your defense of religion, failing to see RELIGION IS BIGOTRY.
It is the religious who are narrow-minded. They are the ones who say "we have no proof of god but I believe there is one because of faith and you should respect that". This is a view informed by nothing other than personal conviction, blind faith. This is bigotry, not the apposing view.
As for me thinking all religions are destructive, lying etc. You say these views are biased, only because I do not believe in god. No, you are wrong. My belief in god in this instance doesn't matter. I don't care if there's a god or not, organized religions are still all of these things. And it's humans that make them so, not any given imaginary god.
Also you say 'no proof'? Are you going to sit there and type that with a straight face. Are you just purposely basking in utter ignorance of history to provoke me. Do you enjoy being uninformed. You don't have to look far to see proof of religion being destructive. It's the biggest sole causer of death and misery, PERIOD. Look at the war in Iraq right now. It's an illegal war but who are they fighting? Parties of god. You take out religion you delete the Holocaust, hundreds of genocide slaughters that have happened throughout history. And you have the audacity, the cheek, the ignorance, the balls to sit there and tell me we have no proof of religion's inherent evil.
We know why this is so too. Religion promotes this type of thinking. You can find endorsements of rape, incest, slavery, putrid, vile horrid violence in every holy book. And you're defending this nonsense. I defend anybody's right to believe it but when you then start telling me I have to respect and that nobody is allowed to challenge it, then I get pissed off. I will not accept bigotry and I will fight any supporter (such as you) of it.
PINK wrote:Saying all those things you have no proof over shows that you are arrogant, stuck up in his own ass, bitch who thinks world revolves around him. See you are a prime example of 'narrow mind'. You have no concrete proof that God does or doesn't exist. Yet you say God doesn't exist. In a way your even contradicting to your self.
Again, hilarious irony.
So the people who say, there almost certainly is no god when there is no proof of any god are the arrogant ones? L-M-F-A-O.
Well allow me to appose you. I say the people who make an outrageous, huge claim, provide no proof for it then say "THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IT, WE DON'T NEED TO PROVE IT AND IF YOU DISAGREE YOU'RE WRONG AND BLASPHEMOUS" are the fucking arrogant ones. People who make absurd claims and provide no proof and say they do not need to. Are arrogant. Not those who take the logical, rational, fair standpoint of "There is no reason to believe it, therefore, we don't".
Religion is arrogant by it's very nature. Such an obvious creation of human minds it's not even funny.
So all of religion's core beliefs are that there was a creator, who created this entire cosmos... For us. Just for humans. All animals are here for our amusement. We are the sole purpose of everything. Their view is that this all-knowing, all-powerful, genius creator created these billions of lightyears of space, this never-ending, never-expanding universe full of wonder and beauty and grandure, these millions of stars, all of this JUST FOR US.
I think you'll find this is the view which deserves the title of thinking the World revolves around you. You arrogant, ignorant bitch. So don't you dare say I support this nonsensical view, my view totally apposes this fucking babble.
You then go on to say 'I' have no proof of god existing or not existing. Another desperate use of language to evade the real problem. The burden of proof, fellow human, is NOT on me, neither is it on any atheist who denies the totally insane claims of religion. The burden of proof is on those who make the fucking claim. It's up to religious people to prove there is a god, not people like me to prove there isn't.
There are millions of things we cannot 'disprove' this does not put the probability of existence at 50% nor does it make them at all likely. Here, lets try your argument:
"Hey Dave, I can fly"
"Really? Prove it!"
"Prove that I can't"
I suppose you think THAT is logical and fair. That's the proper way to treat that claim isit? I suppose you would think not. So why do you make that special exception in the case of religion.
PINK wrote:Now, you comparing 'fairies' and 'Santa', which are made up for little kids (and no one is denying that), to something completely on other level is making me question your intelligence.
Quite frankly I find it very insulting that that you think am defending 'bullshit' and that am ignorant. I don't think being open minded and looking from all views is ignorance. And most certainly don't think that defending my point is ignorant or 'bullshit' at all.
Next, you try and dismiss the comparison between Santa and Fairies to God simply because they're 'made up for little kids'. What a lame fucking cop-out.
All of these claims are illogical, fictional (by definition) claims that have never been proven. So no, god does not deserve any more respect than any of them, does not deserve any more consideration and does not deserve a get out of jail free card when it comes to debate.
Being open-minded means being open to the facts. Considering all the available evidence, NOT believing everything you hear, respecting ignorance and nonsense or defending blind faith.
If you want to defend the twisted views of religion go ahead, but don't tell me I can't attack it.
If you seriously respect the idea of a celestial dictator who watches you 24/7, punishes you for thinking (thought crime) go ahead and respect it. If you like this want people have to be a slave. This god is so powerful, grand and above everything yet he has a superiority-complex, he has ego issues. His sole concern is that you believe in him?. He created life on this little spec of dust and made every other planet in this solar system dead-wood. He does this so we can be born into uncontrollable sin which we had no hand in that we must constantly apologize for.
We must remain grovelling, all-accepting slaves that consider ourselves nothing more than pathetic little creations under our master. We must spend our entire time here thanking this dictator simply for creating us and if we don't do this he will send us to burn for all eternity.
This god is concerned primarily about our sexual activities?. This god is perfect and made us perfectly yet every living creature has inherent flaws and we're so perfect yet he wants us to circumcise young boys and girls. Hack away at his beautiful creations. This is the stuff of human minds.
You like the idea of your future children (if you have any) being taught totalitarianism? Well, I pitty you. I pitty those who have been brainwashed with it, children who have had the fear of hell-fire drummed into them. This evil shit, hammered into their innocent heads. But I perhaps pitty more a fellow non-believer who defends this sick crap. Shame on you.