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The Bible is fairy tales that only children can literally believe in. Religions are superstitious nonsense.



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those people that go from door to door to convince others of their religion are just the old school version of fanboys



spurgeonryan said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
Really? I do the opposite lol. I tell them I'm a christian...

fALSE

 

eVER since Henry the fifth abolished Catholicism in England and started the Church of England, England has become less and less Religious. FACT!

 

So it is a lie when you said that this happens to you. Maybe some athiest came to you and tried to convert you. now that I would believe.

Going from door to door converting people is not how atheists rolls.



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Jumpin said:
Scoobes said:
Jumpin said:
The only people I have had come to try to convert me were neo-atheists; it happens a lot on Internet forums especially, most of them trying to argue their points using straw man arguments, and arguments that were refuted centuries ago.

Most atheists are fairly ignorant too, believing that because someone is religious that they somehow don't believe in the scientific method.

Mostly I see atheism as an excuse certain types of people use to justify their bigotry.

What's a neo-atheist?!

The current major atheist movement led by Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, and Dennet.

Mostly on the sale of aggressive attacks on straw men they built to represent the viewpoints of religions. 

Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet and Harris use strawmen? When? Of course you can back that statement up by pointing out the arguments and explaining how and why they are strawmen.

Oh, and when they try to defend scientific integrity in schoolbooks, is that being agressive too?



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Scoobes said:
Jumpin said:
Scoobes said:
Jumpin said:
The only people I have had come to try to convert me were neo-atheists; it happens a lot on Internet forums especially, most of them trying to argue their points using straw man arguments, and arguments that were refuted centuries ago.

Most atheists are fairly ignorant too, believing that because someone is religious that they somehow don't believe in the scientific method.

Mostly I see atheism as an excuse certain types of people use to justify their bigotry.

What's a neo-atheist?!

The current major atheist movement led by Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, and Dennet.

Mostly on the sale of aggressive attacks on straw men they built to represent the viewpoints of religions. 

Don't most of these guys have actual debates with religious scholars? I'm sure Dawkins at least had a debate with the previous Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and a Jewish Rabbi. I'm not sure I'd call it aggressive if it's just debate.

Maybe it's their argumentation style that makes them come across as agressive. They tend to challenge stuff that religious people take for granted, for example that religion gives people a moral compass, or that jesus was a kind guy or that the ressurection is proff of what he sais is true, etc. They go for the places religious people think are safe.
 



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spurgeonryan said:
@ kungras

Athiest should! Start their own religion.

huh?

The "!" in the middle of the sentence makes me confused xD



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spurgeonryan said:
@ kungras

Athiest should! Start their own religion.

We have. It's called science ;)



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My go to is tell them Crom is my god and he stands strong upon his mountain. They usually find this confusing and leave. But telling them to go fuck themselves works just as well, if not a bit more crass. (This method is equally effective against other solicitors and morons, not just christians)



 

^Science is not a religion.

In reality, the reason why atheists doesn't start new religions is that the very definition of what a religion is is what makes it uninteresting to us.



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