Really? You expect people take your opinion seriously, and this is what you post? Do everyone on this board a favor and stick to talking about trench coats.Originally Posted by AntonLaVey
TKTHEFM would be proud, this is how his religion gets its message out
Wait this is the dude with the trench coat? Are you kidding me right now?
Originally Posted by yngSIMBA
I would hate GOD too if I rock one of those.
Sorry papiOriginally Posted by yngSIMBA
Originally Posted by shoefreakbaby
Originally Posted by yngSIMBA
Oh, atheists hate god now?
Atheism =/= Hatred for god
Seems he was specifically speaking to Anton.
Hold up, whoa dere. No need to cross out my text..
Spoiler [+]How's it feel? Ya, you don't like it, do you? Don't let it happen again
Originally Posted by Beware The Underdog
Wait this is the dude with the trench coat? Are you kidding me right now?
I would hate GOD too if I rock one of those.
Every religion uses this tactic to differienate those inside the group from those outside the group.
Dude I ask you for ONE of your best sources to make your claim and provide evidence for it and you can't even do that?
Your examples don't stand up or make any sense.Originally Posted by tkthafm
How is this guy still asking for examples, yet claiming to have looked at what I posted ?
"Yeah, this book somehow contains all this previously unknown information without a single contradiction/mistake and I can't explain how it came to be... it just... happened... it can't be God... it just happened"
Why Atheism Will Replace Religion
Why atheism grows faster than religion
Published on May 18, 2010 by Nigel Barber, Ph.D. in The Human Beast
Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe. In underdeveloped countries, there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is thus a peculiarly modern phenomenon. Why do modern conditions produce atheism?
First, as to the distribution of atheism in the world, a clear pattern can be discerned. In sub-Saharan Africa there is almost no atheism (Zuckerman, 2007). Belief in God declines in more developed countries and is concentrated in Europe in countries such as Sweden (64% nonbelievers), Denmark (48%), France (44%) and Germany (42%). In contrast, the incidence of atheism in most sub-Saharan countries is below 1%.
The question of why economically developed countries turn to atheism has been batted around by anthropologists for about eighty years. Anthropologist James Fraser proposed that scientific prediction and control of nature supplants religion as a means of controlling uncertainty in our lives. This hunch is supported by data showing that the more educated countries have higher levels of non belief and there are strong correlations between atheism and intelligence (see my earlier post on this).
Atheists are more likely to be college-educated people who live in cities and they are highly concentrated in the social democracies of Europe. Atheism thus blossoms amid affluence where most people feel economically secure. But why?
It seems that people turn to religion as a salve for the difficulties and uncertainties of their lives. In social democracies, there is less fear and uncertainty about the future because social welfare programs provide a safety net and better health care means that fewer people can expect to die young. People who are less vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature feel more in control of their lives and less in need of religion.
In addition to being the opium of the people (as Karl Marx contemptuously phrased it), religion may also promote fertility, particularly by promoting marriage, according to copious data reviewed by Sanderson (200. Large families are preferred in agricultural countries as a source of free labor. In developed "atheist" countries, women have exceptionally small families and do not need religion helping them to raise large families.
Even the psychological functions of religion face stiff competition today. In modern societies, when people experience psychological difficulties they turn to their doctor, psychologist, or psychiatrist. They want a scientific fix and prefer the real psychotropic medicines dished out by physicians to the metaphorical opiates offered by religion.
Moreover, sport psychologists find that sports spectatorship provides much the same kind of social, and spiritual, benefits as people obtain from church membership. In a previous post, I made the case that sports is replacing religion. Precisely the same argument can be made for other forms of entertainment with which spectators become deeply involved. Indeed, religion is striking back by trying to compete in popular media, such as televangelism and Christian rock and by hosting live secular entertainment in church.
The reasons that churches lose ground in developed countries can be summarized in market terms. First, with better science, and with government safety nets, and smaller families, there is less fear and uncertainty in people's daily lives and hence less of a market for religion. At the same time many alternative products are being offered, such as psychotropic medicines and electronic entertainment that have fewer strings attached and that do not require slavish conformity to unscientific beliefs.
References
Sanderson, S. K. (200
Zuckerman, P. (2007). Atheism: Contemporary numbers and patterns. In M. Martin (ed.), The Cambridge companion to atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is not held by any U.S. Library.
Originally Posted by shoefreakbaby
There would be no way for him to give an answer to you and still display meekness and respect so why even do it, it would be done in total vain
as long as the pope absolves me of all of my sins, werd to da crusadesOriginally Posted by sillyputty
Originally Posted by shoefreakbaby
There would be no way for him to give an answer to you and still display meekness and respect so why even do it, it would be done in total vain
So you'd rather avoid answering a rather simple question because of a prediction of how I'd reply? Don't say I'm baiting you, if you won't even be honest about why you refuse to answer the question. You're better off just not replying all rather than justifying your evasion.
Nice evasion tactic though. I must commend you. I hadn't covered that possibility.
Too bad the emotional claims and personal bias do not avoid the literal premise issued by the question.
If only emotions had some basis in the validity of statements...
If you avoid the question can I just infer that I already know what you would say as an answer to the question? ...or is that unfair to you?
See how that works?
The question stands:
Serious question: If the quran or bible said to kill all infidels, no ifs, ands or buts, would any of you do it?
you didn't refute the fact that Spiderman comics weren't written by God, so that means...Originally Posted by tkthafm
How is this guy still asking for examples, yet claiming to have looked at what I posted ?
Refute the first video I posted under scientific miracles... (err, confirmation bias)
Spiderman comics (or any other book for that matter) contain the same linguistic/scientific/historical/societal impact miracles as the Qur'an ? Nah. Nothing parallels the Qur'an. Prove otherwise.
"Yeah, this book somehow contains all this previously unknown information without a single contradiction/mistake and I can't explain how it came to be... it just... happened... it can't be God... it just happened"
