Phat writes:
Unless the alleged supernatural Being provided a method where humanity could interact with it.
Yeh well, we're all still waiting for that.
You know the story.
Yes, it's a story. One of many.
And I then resort to the Appeal To Popularity.
Which you would, of course, lose. So that's that then?
Critics seem to equate belief in God as a belief that is as irrational as belief in Odin, or Spaghetti Monsters or Bigfoots.
And so it is.
But when was the last time you even heard an argument from *anyone* defending the viability of a premise that any of them existed?
Believers in all sorts of irrational stuff exist. I'm sure there's a load of Odin worshipers out there somewhere that will happily tell you their argument. As I say, people will believe in anything.
Why is it a logical fallacy to invoke popularity? Surely the fact that so many seek to defend Christianity somehow correlates to a reason why it is something worth defending.
Because it's a fallacy. You know, something that is an error of logic? The billions that believe in Vishnu doesn't make him exist. To you, does Vishnu exist - he's very popular? Why is your particular god any different?
yes. I know. But it is more than blind chance, in my opinion.
If you only believe what you believe because you were born where and when you were, how can it not be chance?
Christianity won't go away anytime soon...despite your hopes.
Christianity as a fundie religion is fading fast. It'll probably never fully disappear, there will always be nut jobs that need it.
When society breaks, rationality goes out the window. And don't accuse me of wanting chaos to occur. I will argue that it is cyclical and inevitable.
Societies 'break' all the time. Then they rebuild or get consumed by others. It's normal. Read history. It's not the end of the world, it's the human condition. We're trying to modify it and it's not going to work by praying for it.
The closer that humanity gets to a godless society, the closer we also get to extinction. Odd that.
What utter crap. The Middle East is riddled with fundy religions and look at the sate of it. The more developed a society gets the more stable it gets and the more capable it is of solving its problems in a sane manner. The world is in a far better state than it's ever been.
If you guys are not actually wanting the world to come to an end you're claiming that it is. It's crap; you're part of the problem, not the solution.
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