god come on

Dudess

OutlawPete wrote: »

No, that's what atheists try and imply alright, that people think the majority of them are arrogant for little or no reason, but it is far from the case - if it was, they would not have the image that they now have acquired, would they.

The rolling of eyes, belittling of those with any kind of deity belief, faith or even just talk of an after life will generally be more than enough to set them off and so the usual little atheist circle jerk will form, backslapping will commence and condescension will follow.

No, being atheist in itself is fine, it is these traits above that is not.

How do you know the majority are like that? Usually it's just Richard Dawkins - one man - used as the "proof" that the majority of atheists are arrogant. How do you know the majority just don't believe in god, don't say much about it, don't give religious people grief, and get on with their lives? Sure, there are pain in the arse groups - morto at the one on Facebook at the moment called Atheist and Proud! (like something a 13-year-old would say) but the existence of those groups, while they might shout loudly, doesn't necessarily mean the majority are like them.

Non stop pointing out how arrogant/wannabe trendy atheists are (in order to show how right-on one is) is as tiresome and intolerant as atheists banging on about how religious people are stupid.

Also, I do think it's sometimes the atheism alone that's deemed arrogance in and of itself. I personally think the notion of god is a ludicrous one - technically that is dismissal of religious people by me, but I can't help how I feel. I'm certainly not going to forcibly change my view. However I wouldn't give grief to anyone who is religious (and doesn't force it on others) and that's ultimately all that should matter.

Min

the-dude wrote: »

obviousely im drunk but jesus the amount of people that beleive in god is staggering to me. I have been arguing all night and iv convinced afew but so many are so dumb because they were brought up this way,to beleive.Im down the country and id say 80% beleive this ****.sure we are at nothing finna fail voting god loving idiots.

You are so right.

I don't beleive either but many do beleive.

I believe in God though.

Diabhal Beag

Us God-believers are always embarrassed by the holier-than-thou religious types.

Atheists are embarrassed by the snobby LOLReligion types.

goose2005

Rebelheart wrote: »

:rolleyes: Jesus wept. If they had been the same religion something else would have been created to justify one crowd taking everything off the other. This is colonialism 101. Christ almighty!

But they would hardly have remained as two separate "crowds" from 1690 to 1972, would they?

MagicMarker

I'm an atheist, and I'm just super!

Misanthrope

Dudess wrote: »

You know what I think? A lot of atheists are really arrogant, whereas I'm really right-on and accepting of everyone's belief systems - just not those of atheists, because they're really arrogant. I mean, you know that guy Richard Dawkins - he's really arrogant. Etc.

You're confusing arrogance with confidence.Richard Dawkins is highly confident in his stance.He has derived his conclusions from,reason and observation.His claims are demonstrable.

Religion,particularly Christianity, does not allow for reason and is infamous for hiding, destroying or perverting human observation.Remember Galileo and Copernicus and their observations.

Another good example would be Rome's patronage of Georges LaMaitre whilst publicly refuting or twisting his scientific findings.

Faith is belief founded on a lack of evidence ie. information.And a bunch of scrolls allegedly written by people whose existence has not been proved,which were then bundled together and sold as the Bible, is not evidence.

Arrogant would be more like the behaviour of Catholics for the last 70 years or more who washed their hands and averted their eyes while rape, and theft and lies flourished all around them in the name of their as yet unseen 'god', yet still turn up in their Sunday best to be seen at the weekly festival of hypocrisy that is Mass.

Arrogant is expecting educated adults to run through ridiculous rituals that benefit nobody but the church.

Arrogant is failing to understand that atheists have every right to be frustrated by religious people and their complete lack of reason in world that requires more and more reason everyday in order to function well.

Atheists are PISSED OFF.Get it?ANGRY.Displeased.Hurt.Offended.

Do you actually comprehend how offended we are by this?I don't think you do.You are too busy feeling offended by our reaction to being offende by you people.

No atheist armies have attacked you.We have not censored you.You have been given every extension of freedom to practice your faith in this country and look at how the religious factions have behaved.(i'll give the Quakers a pass on this one).

Now, over the last 20 years only have atheists in Ireland dare raise our voice and we are arrogant.How many Christians have been beheaded hung or burned alive or worse by Atheists, down through history.Please find me one example.

I think you'll find virtually all cases were perpetrated by fellow Christians or followers of some other BS.

Look around you.Look at the damage religion has done around the world.Just because you have distilled it down in your mind to a quaint little church visit and a bit of kneeling and praying.

You are sponging the balls of the Beast.Satans fluffers, to put in pornobiblical terms.You are everything you most fear. you are the evil that we see everywhere and the good nobody can see.You seem to be unaware that you are human beings.You believe you are some kind of deity.It's all some crazy narcissistic defence mechanism against confronting your absolute mortality.

You're wormfood waiting to happen.

DementoR

the-dude wrote: »

obviousely im drunk but jesus the amount of people that beleive in god is staggering to me. I have been arguing all night and iv convinced afew but so many are so dumb because they were brought up this way,to beleive.Im down the country and id say 80% beleive this ****.sure we are at nothing finna fail voting god loving idiots.

And so God said "let him talk sh1te" and he did.

OutlawPete

Sam Vimes wrote: »

.You heard it here first: Every label that any group has ever been given is accurate, because labels are never given undeservedly. So sayeth OutlawPete.

Quit playing to the gallery Sam, although - this is another trait I have noticed amongst the Atheist / Science elite, backslapping seems to something they seek, always looking for others to join in their mocking of other users.

Dudess wrote: »

How do you know the majority are like that?

I never said the majority were like that, read what I said:

OutlawPete wrote: »

.. people now see the majority of atheists as having, has been very well earned.

OutlawPete wrote: »

.. that people think the majority of them are arrogant for little or no reason ..

If you were a Christian, would you not think the same from what is thrown their way on these threads? Come on, you can't say that you haven't noticed an upsurge in people declaring themselves athiests for no obvious reason on a thread and acting smug and being unnecessarily aggressive as they go about it.

Science nerds do the same thing, you can satire it if you like, but it is a new trend. You can't even say: "Dear God" on a thread these days without some athiest feeling the need to point out that there is no God and ask if people really still believe in one, along with a 'roll-eyes' of course.

As I say, I think the reputation that has started to follow atheists is an earned one, doesn't mean ALL athiests have partaken in that, but it is not there by accident is my point and as I said:

OutlawPete wrote: »

.. being atheist in itself is fine, it is these traits above that are not.

I never seen Christians behave on Boards, the way I see atheists behave. When is the last time you seen a Christian (of which I am not by the way) say something like:

"I just can't believe that there are some that WON'T accept there is a God. It's just insane to be an atheist, bordering on insanity in fact. I honestly think it is lack of intelligence for those who are not Christians."

Dudess wrote: »

I personally think the notion of god is a ludicrous one - technically that is dismissal of religious people by me, but I can't help how I feel.

There is a difference between saying that you find the notion of God "ludicrous" and someone going into a tirade of how anyone that believes in a God lacks intelligence, which is regularly implied and often even said directly to a user on these debates. Non-atheists constantly have to DEFEND their beliefs and that shouldn't be. It is athists that have a problem with what believers believe, not the other way around.

Misanthrope

OutlawPete wrote: »

There is a difference between saying that you find the notion of God "ludicrous" and someone going into a tirade of how anyone that believes in a God lacks intelligence, which is regularly implied and often even said directly to a user on these debates. Non-atheists constantly have to DEFEND their beliefs and that shouldn't be. It is athists that have a problem with what believers believe, not the other way around.

Most atheists don't believe you are stupid.That is why they are so frustrated by your stance.
Some in their frustration may go over the top but it's not hard to see why.

What is intelligent about 'faith'.List the virtues and benefits of faith as an intellectual pursuit compared to science.Which one is more intelligent?
Be honest.

I'm not saying it's wrong to be unintelligent.I'm highlighting the idea that intelligent people will surely opt for the more intelligent solution.

Tilt Gone

the-dude wrote: »

obviousely im drunk but jesus the amount of people that beleive in god is staggering to me. I have been arguing all night and iv convinced afew but so many are so dumb because they were brought up this way,to beleive.Im down the country and id say 80% beleive this ****.sure we are at nothing finna fail voting god loving idiots.

I'm asking God to forgive you right now you poor misguided soul.

He says there's hope for me but your fcuk*d

partyatmygaff

Misanthrope wrote: »

Most atheists don't believe you are stupid.That is why they are so frustrated by your stance.
Some in their frustration may go over the top but it's not hard to see why.

What is intelligent about 'faith'.List the virtues and benefits of faith as an intellectual pursuit compared to science.Which one is more intelligent?
Be honest.

I'm not saying it's wrong to be unintelligent.I'm highlighting the idea that intelligent people will surely opt for the more intelligent solution.

Dear God... (Pun not intended )

Are you one of those people that compare Science with Religion as if they're two polar opposites? It seems to me that you are. They are mutually exclusive of one another. One does not cancel the other. Thousands of thousands of scientists have been or are religious.

To be honest, this is a veiled "Atheists are more intelligent than theists" post and its a perfect example of the snobby arrogant atheist stereotype.

MagicMarker

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Dear God... (Pun not intended )

Are you one of those people that compare Science with Religion as if they're two polar opposites? It seems to me that you are. They are mutually exclusive of one another. One does not cancel the other. Thousands of thousands of scientists have been or are religious.

To be honest, this is a veiled "Atheists are more intelligent than theists" post and its a perfect example of the snobby arrogant atheist stereotype.

Dear God (no pun intended)

lmaopml

Misanthrope wrote: »

Most atheists don't believe you are stupid.That is why they are so frustrated by your stance.
Some in their frustration may go over the top but it's not hard to see why.

What is intelligent about 'faith'.List the virtues and benefits of faith as an intellectual pursuit compared to science.Which one is more intelligent?
Be honest.

I'm not saying it's wrong to be unintelligent.I'm highlighting the idea that intelligent people will surely opt for the more intelligent solution.

So Atheist = Intelligent ( probably very scientific person here, puffs chest with pride )

Person of faith = Possibly unintelligent ( Doubtful they're interested in science at all )


That's so clever! Mind blowing really..


Is it not apparent that the num nut gene is non descriminatory yet? or the pompous fundamentalist gene either?

I'd imagine some of the more thoughtful and clever atheists who post on boards are face palming all over the place lately, and squinting at the computer through one eye...

Dudess

Misanthrope wrote: »

You're confusing arrogance with confidence.Richard Dawkins is highly confident in his stance.He has derived his conclusions from,reason and observation.His claims are demonstrable.

Religion,particularly Christianity, does not allow for reason and is infamous for hiding, destroying or perverting human observation.Remember Galileo and Copernicus and their observations.

Another good example would be Rome's patronage of Georges LaMaitre whilst publicly refuting or twisting his scientific findings.

Faith is belief founded on a lack of evidence ie. information.And a bunch of scrolls allegedly written by people whose existence has not been proved,which were then bundled together and sold as the Bible, is not evidence.

Arrogant would be more like the behaviour of Catholics for the last 70 years or more who washed their hands and averted their eyes while rape, and theft and lies flourished all around them in the name of their as yet unseen 'god', yet still turn up in their Sunday best to be seen at the weekly festival of hypocrisy that is Mass.

Arrogant is expecting educated adults to run through ridiculous rituals that benefit nobody but the church.

Arrogant is failing to understand that atheists have every right to be frustrated by religious people and their complete lack of reason in world that requires more and more reason everyday in order to function well.

Atheists are PISSED OFF.Get it?ANGRY.Displeased.Hurt.Offended.

Do you actually comprehend how offended we are by this?I don't think you do.You are too busy feeling offended by our reaction to being offende by you people.

No atheist armies have attacked you.We have not censored you.You have been given every extension of freedom to practice your faith in this country and look at how the religious factions have behaved.(i'll give the Quakers a pass on this one).

Now, over the last 20 years only have atheists in Ireland dare raise our voice and we are arrogant.How many Christians have been beheaded hung or burned alive or worse by Atheists, down through history.Please find me one example.

I think you'll find virtually all cases were perpetrated by fellow Christians or followers of some other BS.

Look around you.Look at the damage religion has done around the world.Just because you have distilled it down in your mind to a quaint little church visit and a bit of kneeling and praying.

You are sponging the balls of the Beast.Satans fluffers, to put in pornobiblical terms.You are everything you most fear. you are the evil that we see everywhere and the good nobody can see.You seem to be unaware that you are human beings.You believe you are some kind of deity.It's all some crazy narcissistic defence mechanism against confronting your absolute mortality.

You're wormfood waiting to happen.

I was being ironic. I can't understand how that wasn't obvious. Oh and read the rest of my posts here instead of cherry-picking. TL;DR? I'm an atheist. Although thankfully not as aggressive as you. Some good points btw but I think Richard Dawkins IS arrogant, however it's boring the way he's always wheeled out as proof that atheists are arrogant.

OutlawPete wrote: »

You can't even say: "Dear God" on a thread these days without some athiest feeling the need to point out that there is no God and ask if people really still believe in one, along with a 'roll-eyes' of course.

I really don't think that's true. I'm not denying there are arrogant atheists, people who behave appallingly towards those who are religious - I've challenged some of them on it - but I don't think it's as widespread as you say it is.

I never seen Christians behave on Boards, the way I see atheists behave.

I have - and it's not very "christian" of them.

When is the last time you seen a Christian (of which I am not by the way) say something like:

"I just can't believe that there are some that WON'T accept there is a God. It's just insane to be an atheist, bordering on insanity in fact. I honestly think it is lack of intelligence for those who are not Christians."

Some genius who came along and attacked people's horror at the Magdalene Laundries report as anti catholicism bla bla. Might have been just a troll but might not.

It is athists that have a problem with what believers believe, not the other way around.

Not true.

Minstrel27

the-dude wrote: »

Im down the country and id say 80% beleive this ****.

80% eh? I'd imagine it is higher than that.

partyatmygaff

Misanthrope wrote: »

You're confusing arrogance with confidence.Richard Dawkins is highly confident in his stance.He has derived his conclusions from,reason and observation.His claims are demonstrable.

Confidence does not automatically make you correct or in any way less arrogant. He's the quintessential example of an arrogant atheist.

Religion,particularly Christianity, does not allow for reason and is infamous for hiding, destroying or perverting human observation.Remember Galileo and Copernicus and their observations.

You're thinking of the Catholic Church. You cannot judge all religions and form a conclusion on them through your limited knowledge of one.

Arrogant would be more like the behaviour of Catholics for the last 70 years or more who washed their hands and averted their eyes while rape, and theft and lies flourished all around them in the name of their as yet unseen 'god', yet still turn up in their Sunday best to be seen at the weekly festival of hypocrisy that is Mass.

That's Irish society as a whole. Brush things under the carpet and leave them there. There is no arrogance and tarring all Catholics as being arrogant by the behaviour of a small minority is pretty foolish.

Arrogant is expecting educated adults to run through ridiculous rituals that benefit nobody but the church.

These educated adults believe differently to you and find great spiritual benefit within those "ridiculous rituals". Again you seem to be basing your view on religion solely on the Irish branch of the RCC. Pretty foolish and short sighted.

Arrogant is failing to understand that atheists have every right to be frustrated by religious people and their complete lack of reason in world that requires more and more reason everyday in order to function well.

You don't seem to understand the meaning of arrogant. Having different beliefs to you does not make others lack reason. In fact, you're the one who's coming across as arrogant and very much so.

Atheists are PISSED OFF.Get it?ANGRY.Displeased.Hurt.Offended.

It's easy to get offended when you feel superior to the rest of the world so don't be surprised when few others agree with you.

Do you actually comprehend how offended we are by this?I don't think you do.You are too busy feeling offended by our reaction to being offende by you people.

Offended by what? The mere existence of others that hold different beliefs than to yourself? There's a word for that and its intolerance.

No atheist armies have attacked you.We have not censored you.You have been given every extension of freedom to practice your faith in this country and look at how the religious factions have behaved.(i'll give the Quakers a pass on this one).

How about the far more numerous non-religious wars? People decide to go to war and people resort to violence to solve issues. It's an unfortunate part of human nature. It just so happens that some people choose to war over religion. This does not put Religion at fault. It puts the idiots who resort to war at fault.

Now, over the last 20 years only have atheists in Ireland dare raise our voice and we are arrogant.How many Christians have been beheaded hung or burned alive or worse by Atheists, down through history.Please find me one example.

Soviet Russia. Nazi Germany. There are hundreds of thousands of examples of people killing those that hold different faiths to themselves. Again that's the fault of people, not religion.

I think you'll find virtually all cases were perpetrated by fellow Christians or followers of some other BS.

No. No we won't. You're coming across as intolerant and blinded by seething hate.

Look around you.Look at the damage religion has done around the world.Just because you have distilled it down in your mind to a quaint little church visit and a bit of kneeling and praying.

Damage? No. People with a maligned view of their religion damage the world in which they live. Take the RCC for example, you could not say that the priests involved in the abuse scandals were practicing their faith.

you are the evil that we see everywhere and the good nobody can see.You seem to be unaware that you are human beings.You believe you are some kind of deity.It's all some crazy narcissistic defence mechanism against confronting your absolute mortality.

Excessive hate and excessive arrogance.

You're wormfood waiting to happen.

Thank you for your "enlightened" view :rolleyes:

partyatmygaff

MagicMarker wrote: »

Dear God (no pun intended)

Starting a letter to God, I see?

McChubbin

Body of Christ? More like the body of Buddha from where I'm sitting...
Buddy Christ makes more sense.

Drakmord

the-dude wrote: »

obviousely im drunk but jesus the amount of people that beleive in god is staggering to me. I have been arguing all night and iv convinced afew but so many are so dumb because they were brought up this way,to beleive.Im down the country and id say 80% beleive this ****.sure we are at nothing finna fail voting god loving idiots.

I take exception to being called an idiot, I scored a perfect leaving cert :P
If faith helps people through the day, I see no harm in it.

Junco Partner

im not religous in the slightest. but it always amuses me when the militant athiests come out and try to force their opinions down peoples neck even though they give out about the churches doing the same. its always "the "theres no evidence that theres a god" argument too even though they overlook the fact that theres no proof that theres not either. i think that makes me agnostic does it?

efb

god, sure why not, we believed in Santa for long enough

Sam Vimes

OutlawPete wrote: »

Quit playing to the gallery Sam, although - this is another trait I have noticed amongst the Atheist / Science elite, backslapping seems to something they seek, always looking for others to join in their mocking of other users.

.

You said something silly so I pointed out its silliness. If you don't like it, rather than labelling people as arrogant for pointing out said silliness you should refrain from saying silly things?

Junco Partner

but with santa we were shown the wizard behind the curtain it's a completely different thing.

MagicSean

the-dude wrote: »

obviousely im drunk but jesus the amount of people that beleive in god is staggering to me. I have been arguing all night and iv convinced afew but so many are so dumb because they were brought up this way,to beleive.Im down the country and id say 80% beleive this ****.sure we are at nothing finna fail voting god loving idiots.

You're as bad as the people you condem. They believe what they believe and you believe what you believe. There are still plenty of things that cannot be explained or proven by science.

MagicSean

Misanthrope wrote: »

You're confusing arrogance with confidence.Richard Dawkins is highly confident in his stance.He has derived his conclusions from,reason and observation.His claims are demonstrable.

Religion,particularly Christianity, does not allow for reason and is infamous for hiding, destroying or perverting human observation.Remember Galileo and Copernicus and their observations.

Another good example would be Rome's patronage of Georges LaMaitre whilst publicly refuting or twisting his scientific findings.

Faith is belief founded on a lack of evidence ie. information.And a bunch of scrolls allegedly written by people whose existence has not been proved,which were then bundled together and sold as the Bible, is not evidence.

Arrogant would be more like the behaviour of Catholics for the last 70 years or more who washed their hands and averted their eyes while rape, and theft and lies flourished all around them in the name of their as yet unseen 'god', yet still turn up in their Sunday best to be seen at the weekly festival of hypocrisy that is Mass.

Arrogant is expecting educated adults to run through ridiculous rituals that benefit nobody but the church.

Arrogant is failing to understand that atheists have every right to be frustrated by religious people and their complete lack of reason in world that requires more and more reason everyday in order to function well.

Atheists are PISSED OFF.Get it?ANGRY.Displeased.Hurt.Offended.

Do you actually comprehend how offended we are by this?I don't think you do.You are too busy feeling offended by our reaction to being offende by you people.

No atheist armies have attacked you.We have not censored you.You have been given every extension of freedom to practice your faith in this country and look at how the religious factions have behaved.(i'll give the Quakers a pass on this one).

Now, over the last 20 years only have atheists in Ireland dare raise our voice and we are arrogant.How many Christians have been beheaded hung or burned alive or worse by Atheists, down through history.Please find me one example.

I think you'll find virtually all cases were perpetrated by fellow Christians or followers of some other BS.

Look around you.Look at the damage religion has done around the world.Just because you have distilled it down in your mind to a quaint little church visit and a bit of kneeling and praying.

You are sponging the balls of the Beast.Satans fluffers, to put in pornobiblical terms.You are everything you most fear. you are the evil that we see everywhere and the good nobody can see.You seem to be unaware that you are human beings.You believe you are some kind of deity.It's all some crazy narcissistic defence mechanism against confronting your absolute mortality.

You're wormfood waiting to happen.

You're offended and pissed off at people believing in God? How does their belief affect you?

MagicMarker

f0ggy92 wrote: »

im not religous in the slightest. but it always amuses me when the militant athiests come out and try to force their opinions down peoples neck even though they give out about the churches doing the same. its always "the "theres no evidence that theres a god" argument too even though they overlook the fact that theres no proof that theres not either. i think that makes me agnostic does it?

There's no evidence that there are no fairies or goblins either. Yet people can insist that they don't exist and question people who think they do without being called arrogant. Except for God, because that's disrespectful. :rolleyes:

Just because there's no evidence for either side doesn't mean the likelihood of God existing 50/50.

gurramok

Its quite funny that the posters who objected to me questioning the religious stance of hospitals in the other thread are also found to be in this thread arguing for religion despite then denying it!

Junco Partner

it also doesnt mean that it's a 100 percent fact that it doesnt exist. and as with god i'm open minded about the existence of the paranormal i.e the fairies and other things you used to mock my point.

f0ggy92

f0ggy92 wrote: »

it also doesnt mean that it's a 100 percent fact. and as with god i'm open minded about the existence of the paranormal i.e the fairies and other things you used to mock my point.

How does mentioning fairies mock your point exactly?
There was no mocking in that post.

philologos

Meh, if believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and expressing that in my living and life goals means I'm an idiot, I'm quite happy to be called an idiot

MagicMarker

f0ggy92 wrote: »

it also doesnt mean that it's a 100 percent fact. and as with god i'm open minded about the existence of the paranormal i.e the fairies and other things you used to mock my point.

So we should teach that fairies and goblins exist to children then?

I don't care if people are open minded to the possibilities. I care when they teach children that these things exist.

The_Minister

Misanthrope wrote: »

Now, over the last 20 years only have atheists in Ireland dare raise our voice and we are arrogant.How many Christians have been beheaded hung or burned alive or worse by Atheists, down through history.Please find me one example..

Are you kidding?

Really?

Soviet Russia for one. Or rather, several million.

China as well.

Millions of religious folk murdered by Atheists in an attempt to wipe out religion.

MagicMarker

The_Minister wrote: »

Are you kidding?

Really?

Soviet Russia for one. Or rather, several million.

China as well.

Millions of religious folk murdered by Atheists in an attempt to wipe out religion.

I think the question he meant to ask is name an atheist who has done these kind of things in the name of atheism.

Of course no one denies atheists have done bad things.

Junco Partner

No again with this crap who knew atheists were such bloody trolls?. I never said they do, qoute me where I said that fairies are fact go on. Oh wait you can't because I didn't bloody say it did I?. I just said that you should let people believe if they want. Theres no concrete evidence that it doesnt so you have no place to mock people who want to. I've had enough crap happen in my life to lean towards the god doesnt exist side and I still lean to that side. But until science can prove 100 percent that god doesn't exist I'm going to resist the urge to come onto internet forums posting this kind of crap that you see every day, bullying people because they believe something different to you. It's funny isn't that you never come onto boards and see the supposedly intolerant religous types posting threads like " atheism come on" or "science doesn't exist" or any crap like that it's always the supposedly proggesive and tolerant atheist types.People like you are the adult equivalent to that mean kid that went around the playground telling kids that santa didnt exist instead of just keeping what their parents told them to themselves and letting the other kids enjoy the little bit of childhood optimism they had left and punching the kids who still believed just because they got crap presents for christmas.

MagicMarker

f0ggy92 wrote: »

No again with this crap who knew atheists were such bloody trolls?. I never said they do, qoute me where I said that fairies are fact go on. Oh wait you can't because I didn't bloody say it did I?. I just said that you should let people believe if they want. Theres no concrete evidence that it doesnt so you have no place to mock people who want to. I've had enough crap happen in my life to lean towards the god doesnt exist side and I still lean to that side. But until science can prove 100 percent that god doesn't exist I'm going to resist the urge to come onto internet forums posting this kind of crap that you see every day, bullying people because they believe something different to you. It's funny isn't that you never come onto boards and see the supposedly intolerant religous types posting threads like " atheism come on" or "science doesn't exist" or any crap like that it's always the supposedly proggesive and tolerant atheist types.People like you are the adult equivalent to that mean kid that went around the playground telling kids that santa didnt exist instead of just keeping what their parents told them to themselves and letting the other kids enjoy the little bit of childhood optimism they had left and punching the kids who still believed just because they got crap presents for christmas.

The toys are firmly out of your pram aren't they?

You said that, like God, you're open to the possibility of fairies existing. So I asked you a fairly simple question in fairness, and you label me a troll and a bully while ignoring the question.

So, like God, should we teach children that fairies exist? Or do you find that notion incomprehensibly stupid?

If you don't think we should teach children that fairies exist, can you tell me why?

philologos

In fairness the OP is a troll. If he were genuinely perplexed he would go and ask Christians why they believe.

PanchoVilla

MagicMarker wrote: »

The toys are firmly out of your pram aren't they?

Ahhh...will that ever get old? Well yes actually, it got old a long time ago. Is it really that difficult to express your opinion without resorting to played out crap like this?

MagicMarker wrote: »

So, like God, should we teach children that fairies exist? Or do you find that notion incomprehensibly stupid?

Don't we do that anyway? I don't recall ever hearing "Oh by the way, nothing I've just told you actually exists" after hearing a fairy tale when I was a kid.

Junco Partner

and I then asked you to qoute where I stated that they were fact and where I suggested that fairies should be taught in schools.
i'm waiting by the way

MagicMarker

f0ggy92 wrote: »

and I then asked you to qoute where I stated that they were fact and where I suggested that fairies should be taught in schools.

sigh

I never said you said it was a fact, which is clear since I reiterated to you what you did say!

I also never said that you said they should be taught in schools. I'm asking you if you think they should, any chance I can get an answer?

lila44

Misanthrope wrote: »

You're confusing arrogance with confidence.Richard Dawkins is highly confident in his stance.He has derived his conclusions from,reason and observation.His claims are demonstrable.

Religion,particularly Christianity, does not allow for reason and is infamous for hiding, destroying or perverting human observation.Remember Galileo and Copernicus and their observations.

Another good example would be Rome's patronage of Georges LaMaitre whilst publicly refuting or twisting his scientific findings.

Faith is belief founded on a lack of evidence ie. information.And a bunch of scrolls allegedly written by people whose existence has not been proved,which were then bundled together and sold as the Bible, is not evidence.

Arrogant would be more like the behaviour of Catholics for the last 70 years or more who washed their hands and averted their eyes while rape, and theft and lies flourished all around them in the name of their as yet unseen 'god', yet still turn up in their Sunday best to be seen at the weekly festival of hypocrisy that is Mass.

Arrogant is expecting educated adults to run through ridiculous rituals that benefit nobody but the church.

Arrogant is failing to understand that atheists have every right to be frustrated by religious people and their complete lack of reason in world that requires more and more reason everyday in order to function well.

Atheists are PISSED OFF.Get it?ANGRY.Displeased.Hurt.Offended.

Do you actually comprehend how offended we are by this?I don't think you do.You are too busy feeling offended by our reaction to being offende by you people.

No atheist armies have attacked you.We have not censored you.You have been given every extension of freedom to practice your faith in this country and look at how the religious factions have behaved.(i'll give the Quakers a pass on this one).

Now, over the last 20 years only have atheists in Ireland dare raise our voice and we are arrogant.How many Christians have been beheaded hung or burned alive or worse by Atheists, down through history.Please find me one example.

I think you'll find virtually all cases were perpetrated by fellow Christians or followers of some other BS.

Look around you.Look at the damage religion has done around the world.Just because you have distilled it down in your mind to a quaint little church visit and a bit of kneeling and praying.

You are sponging the balls of the Beast.Satans fluffers, to put in pornobiblical terms.You are everything you most fear. you are the evil that we see everywhere and the good nobody can see.You seem to be unaware that you are human beings.You believe you are some kind of deity.It's all some crazy narcissistic defence mechanism against confronting your absolute mortality.

You're wormfood waiting to happen.

I couldn't even read your post. You're refusal to type properly, i.e. a space after each sentence, is driving me crazy!

Junco Partner

no i do not believe that fairys should be taught in schools and i can see where this is going. yo're going to ask why and then i'm going to say because there's no hard evidence and then you take that as a victory.

MagicMarker

f0ggy92 wrote: »

no i do not believe that fairys should be taught in schools and i can see where this is going. yo're going to ask why and then i'm going to say because there's no hard evidence and then you take that as a victory.

Well that depends, do you think the existence of God and all that entails should be taught in school as fact?

Hank Scorpio

It all had to start somewhere

Junco Partner

no i don't as there's no evidence. How religion is taught in schools as a study of all world's religions and morality is how it should be taught.

PanchoVilla

f0ggy92 wrote: »

no i do not believe that fairys should be taught in schools and i can see where this is going. yo're going to ask why and then i'm going to say because there's no hard evidence and then you take that as a victory.

Just ignore them, atheists are usually people with a superiority complex. They're only atheists so they can mock the vast majority of other people. Either that or they're atheists because they think it's cool and rebellious. I was an atheist when I was a teenager because I thought it was cool but then I grew up and realized being absolutely sure there is no god was just as ridiculous as being absolutely sure there is one.

MagicMarker

f0ggy92 wrote: »

no i don't as there's no evidence. How religion is taught in schools as a study of all world's religions and morality is how it should be taught.

I think you'll find most atheists agree with you here, except maybe the morality part.

Junco Partner

what do atheists not believe in morals?

MagicMarker

PanchoVilla wrote: »

Just ignore them, atheists are usually people with a superiority complex. They're only atheists so they can mock the vast majority of other people. Either that or they're atheists because they think it's cool and rebellious. I was an atheist when I was a teenager because I thought it was cool but then I grew up and realized being absolutely sure there is no god was just as ridiculous as being absolutely sure there is one.

Hey, just because you were an atheist because you thought it was cool doesn't mean the rest of us are.

Believe it or not, I'm an atheist because I don't believe in God, not because it's the flavour of the month.

PanchoVilla

MagicMarker wrote: »

Hey, just because you were an atheist because you thought it was cool doesn't mean the rest of us are.

Believe it or not, I'm an atheist because I don't believe in God, not because it's the flavour of the month.

:rolleyes:

Edit: You don't believe in something that can't be proven either way. How is that any different to someone who does believe?

MagicMarker

PanchoVilla wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Indeed.