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Athiests - Who cares
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Laughing my ass off here at some of the posts on this thread.
Yes, we can thank the various churches around the world for quantum physics and string theory!
Close!Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, (French: [ʒɔʁʒə ləmɛtʁ] (
listen); 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the French section of the Catholic University of Leuven.[1] He was the first known academic to propose the theory of the expansion of the universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble.[2][3] He was also the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[4][5][6][7] Lemaître also proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre0 -
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Personally I think there is a difference between Atheists and Anti-Theists Atheists.
Its perfectly possible to be Atheist or Agnostic and absolutely not care about religion or what religious people do (as long as its in the parameters of the socially acceptable behavior of wider society), I had an elderly conservative close relative that this was the case for, absence of religion was not a factor in her life it just was.
To me an example of this is attitudes towards schooling, an Atheist/Agnostic might campaign to have access to a schooling that fits their view point, the Anti-Theist Atheist view would be to have this but also to consider the closure of schools and increasing the difficulty of parents enrolling their children in a schools with a religious ethos as a positive. (this is a western european context where a national curriculum must be followed).
A second thing is I'm always sort of baffled by the attitude of some young Irish Atheists in relation to society, if somebody is ten years younger than me I don't understand how they feel they grew up in a conservative country
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Something I've noticed that the religious folks in this thread don't seem to be able to grasp is that 'atheists' are not a homogeneous group of people, akin to those who share a religion.
Atheism is just the lack of a belief in a deity. That is it.
'Not believing in something' is not a 'thing'. It's just a lack of belief. It's not a bucket you put atheists into, along with a load of beliefs. There are no beliefs to connect them together.
Very true but I think there is a tendency towards a certain set of social mores/views that often coincide with someone being aware another person is an Atheist (e.g the type of Atheist that tells you
), take a gander at A&A and you can see there is some very strong trends among the majority of posters that don't simply relate to lack of belief 0 -
RDM_83 again wrote: »Very true but I think there is a tendency towards a certain set of social mores/views that often coincide with someone being aware another person is an Atheist (e.g the type of Atheist that tells you ), take a gander at A&A and you can see there is some very strong trends among the majority of posters that don't simply relate to lack of belief
Yeah but A&A is not a random sample of atheists. It's a sample of people who are atheists who want to spend time talking about atheism. That's a much more specific group of people.0 -
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RDM_83 again wrote: »Very true but I think there is a tendency towards a certain set of social mores/views that often coincide with someone being aware another person is an Atheist (e.g the type of Atheist that tells you ), take a gander at A&A and you can see there is some very strong trends among the majority of posters that don't simply relate to lack of belief
This may be true in some cases in regard to issues like abortion, equal marriage and other similar issues of social justice/rights. This is most likely because religion is the root cause of these rights being restricted and because we do not subscribe to religion we share a lack of religious based opposition. Still it is not the case that all atheists will agree that such rights should be granted to all.0 -
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