At 11/26/09 04:05 AM, Dogbert581 wrote:
At 11/26/09 12:55 AM, yurgenburgen wrote:
They are convinced god is on their side. It's impossible to reason with them.
As opposed to atheists who are so convinced God doesn't exist its impossible to reason with them.
Well how can you? Religion's biggest argument is "YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL!"
We atheists just go: yeah sure we'll believe in when we see it."
Thats basically what atheism is. We'll believe it when we see it.
Note, this next paragraph is about extremists, not the common people.
Anyways, in my personal opinion religion is a scam. It's was created and existed today because it can, and does, hold tremendous sway over millions of people. If a holy man goes "we must not eat for a week and starve ourselves to death" Thousands of people will blindly go to their death in the name of God, a human weakness in which we need something to believe in in order to get on with our miserable lives. God is an excuse. Its an object we use for making ourselves look better in the eyes of other people. Atheists can go "my life sucks." Religious people go "my life sucks but im going to pretend im happy in order to go to heaven" It a weakness of the human social structure, in which we need to look better, feel better, and BE better, in every single way we possibly can. It just the way we are, striving for excellence to the point of fanaticism.
Thats all.
for now.....MUAHAHAHAHA!
