by BurnTheShips 44 Replies latest jw friends
I'm not generally in favour of rounding up people and sterilising them, but if I was, "atheists who believe in God" would be a good place to start.
Talk about intolerance!
I don't know about that, but half of people are below average - and the average is not that great.
Such elitist trollop. But to be expected from FD. FD is so much smarter than everyone else.
Apparently, some atheists have a very thin skin. Where is the NUANCE?
As a budding atheist, I am more charitable than this.
BTS
As a budding atheist, I am more charitable than this.
Burns, Hillary keep in _Step has only been gone a short while and you are wavering already.
If you need someone strong to keep you on the straight and narrow I am at your service. My only weakness is my brain but who needs a brain to post on a forum like this?
Burn
I find this most interesting.
Life after death.
Atheist 12% believe in heaven. 10% believe in hell.
Agnostic 18% believe in heaven. 12% believe in hell.
BurnTheShips:
Talk about intolerance!
I'm not intolerant of people with different belief systems. I am intolerant of people who use language so incorrectly that they can define themselves in an inherently contradictory way.
Such elitist trollop. But to be expected from FD. FD is so much smarter than everyone else.
No, just smarter than most! Anyway, you started it, claiming that a quarter of people were retarded. That's certainly not true. Intelligence follows a fairly standard bell curve so the numbers drop off quite dramatically before you get to a level that would normally be defined as retarded. However, my statement that half of people are below average is necessarily true (for certain definitions of average at least). And the average person is really not that smart. But I'm not suggesting that we sterilise the average person, just atheists who believe in God, Christians who don't believe in Jesus, vegetarians who eat fish and so on.
Apparently, some atheists have a very thin skin. Where is the NUANCE?
Too subtle for you? I did stick a smiley at the end.
As a budding atheist, I am more charitable than this.
That will fade in time. Once you become a fully-fledged atheist you will no longer feel compassion or the need to be a moral person. And for a limited time only, you get a free toaster oven.
derek
Not sure what your point is unless it's just to remind us that not all the stupid theists think they're atheists!
You're the one with a belief based on nothing.
Yeah I'm a Vegetarian but I only eat meat..........Idiots!
Deputy Dog:
You're the one with a belief based on nothing.
What belief is that? To the best of my knowledge - and intentions - all my beliefs are based on evidence.
Looks like a battle is starting to brew among the warriors! I will put aside my Roman and Greek gods for a moment and try to be sensible.
People who are simply non religious are sometimes labelled as Atheists. To not have a religion or any interest in religion is different to not believing in a God.
Then again if there is an intelligent force at work in the universe does it take the form of a Deity? I for example do not consider that existence of a deity as described in holy books and scriptures is realistic or accurate. I have no time for organised, commercialised religion. This does not mean that I have ruled out the possibility that the universe is permeated by a coordinated intelligence.
Such an intelligence does not have to have a plan or fixed moral rules, but could operate by a very different kind of process to the one that goes on in our heads, that we choose to label as intelligence.
So before we enquire into one's belief in God we have to define God. This idea of believer versus non-believer is very primitive. We all have opinions that are subject to change and growth. Do they need to be categorized and labelled as anti or pro Deity.
derek
all my beliefs are based on evidence.
What's the origin of all your evidence? The Big Bang? What caused that?
In March 2007, a Newsweek poll had an even higher percentage of atheists--27% believed in God.
