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RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence - but Sometimes They Actually Exist
I disagree with giving people equal credit on certain things. Especially when it comes to religion. Bitcoin is another good example. Facts don't care about your feelings, god doesn't exist and bitcoin is a piece of shit.
"God doesn't exist" is a nonsensical claim.
I should specify that any organized religion with a written style of God does not exist, objectively. I'm open to an abstract style of creator, but to say that Christianity or Islam or whatever is the correct God is stupid and you deserve the utmost ridicule.
You don’t know that. You can assume that. But you don’t know that.
I just hope God exists because I hate atheists so much.
Not all, but the organized religion called ”atheism”.
unfalsifiable hypotheses are useless thought experiments. The Christian God is just as likely to exist as the little leprechaun in my shoes named Chip who loves to talk to me about spaghetti every night, but the catch is only I can see him and he has no physical manifestation that can be tracked.
It useless. Religion existed and continues to exist to control stupid people, plain and simple. The only acceptable religious views are deism or atheism on an agnostic spectrum. Theism is just the definition of cringe.
That said, most prominent atheists are pretty annoying, but I'll take annoying over preaching hatred and factually untrue garbage.
Nah. I'd say the Christian God has a stronger case going for it than a little leprechaun. There's an entire religion and a massive social movement around the idea of the Christian God. Not so much a leprechaun. The movement having started from people's experiences with Jesus.
And on a personal level, I think religion was a great thing to have around, regardless of whether I believe in God or not.
The Fear of God kept people in line. Everything's been degenerating since the rise of secularism.
Fear was a good motivator before the age of information
Or the age of misinformation.
Misinformation has been the standard since the dawn of time, it will always be the majority.
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Though facts are being (ab)used to create feelings.
But he does. As long as god is a concept in peoples minds and they create consensus about it.
Do you have an example for your first statement not giving equal credit?
god as an abstract concept does not equate to some guy that floods the earth and laughs at cancer
example for what specifically?
You said you disagree with giving people equal credit on certain things. Is that what you mean? That you don't give credit to a concept of god to someone who has it?
What about a concept of freedom? Do you have one? What, if some one elses concept about it is not aligned to yours? How do you create consensus with this person?
Concepts are not the same as definitive statements.
Sure about that?
What lives behind a statement? Does it come out of nowhere?
Yes, I am sure about that. Saying "God exists" as a definitive statement as in "There is a Man in the Sky that Floods the Earth and Laughs At Cancer" is untrue and not on equal footing with "2+2=4"
who does believe that anyway in the sense of a personalized God? Do you know people in person close to you who do so?
Christians believe that.