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Author Topic:   Does Atheism = No beliefs?
Wounded King
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Message 138 of 414 (551784)
03-24-2010 7:38 AM
Reply to: Message 137 by Hyroglyphx
03-24-2010 7:02 AM


Re: Why Not Sort By Belief?
If anyone takes this place that seriously by ever referring to it as "their world," they therefore subject themselves to open scorn and public mockery.
As do those demonstrating a severe failure of reading comprehension in not understanding that the most important word in understanding what that quote actually means is 'apparently'.
As G_d suggests, when you come to a site which people choose to frequent because their hobby is discussing evolution/creation, religion/materialism, theism/atheism then you are likely to find people from the more extreme fringes of adherence to each position, because the moderates who don't really feel they have a horse in the race wouldn't be bothered to find such a site in the first place. And this is only exacerbated since people are specifically going to be more focused on discussing these polarising topics.
If you think that that means that any atheist on this site, let alone most atheists, goes about their day to day life berating people for not embracing rationalism and denying the existence of the supernatural then maybe that says more about you than it does about them.
TTFN,
WK

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Wounded King
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Message 142 of 414 (551830)
03-24-2010 12:25 PM
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03-24-2010 12:15 PM


Re: Why Not Sort By Belief?
Well I'd suggest that people who are prepared to put a video of themselves up on youtube discussing religion are also an extreme self selecting population. All you are doing is pointing at an almost exactly equivalent self selecting population and seeing the same thing. Are you suggesting that there isn't at least an equivalent quantity of obnoxious theists posting in these venues?
TTFN,
WK

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