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We're in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I--an atheist and a skeptic--am told I need to respect these patently false beliefs as cultural traditions.

Fuck that. They're bad cultural traditions, undeserving of respect. Child-proofing society for these intellectually stunted people doesn't help them; it is in fact a disservice to them to pretend it's okay to go through life believing these things. We should demand that people contend with reality on a factual basis by the time they reach adulthood (even earlier, if I'm being completely honest). We shouldn't be coddling people who profess beliefs that are demonstrably false, simply because their feelings might get hurt.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My difficulty with that though is someone had to come up with the idea of God. It is someone else's belief long ago that brought it into existence. To my knowledge humans are not born with the knowledge God might exist.

To put it differently, I have never seen a dog or cat praying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a question that occurs to all who are sufficiently curious. It is a corollary of the question "Why does anything exist?".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Prove it..

You can not. That is the difference. I know you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into but come on. This is yet another circle, round we go. You feel superior because you asked yourself that question and you came to your logical conclusion. Guess what buttercup, that doesn't mean it's the logical conclusion.

We're just talking circles I believe, so I appreciate the civil conversation (minus my low blows above) but I'm afraid we will be forced to agree to disagree. And if I'm wrong, you may have the chance to witness me give God a huge piece of my mind before he casts me off to hell. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You feel superior because you asked yourself that question and you came to your logical conclusion.

I haven't even stated my conclusions. I am only trying to help y'all understand that it is not reasonable to jump from an absence of evidence to a conclusion of non-existence. It has nothing to do with me. It is a fact of formal logic.