| vlad321 said: Actually that's the thing. I don't believe in anything unless it has been observed. The simple fact is that in the grand scheme of things, if you go all the way back to the big bang, anything has absolutely 0 probability of ever happening. Furthermore, witout having any informatino from before the big bang, absolutely anything could have happened. Without any evidence, there is absolutely 0 chance that it is like anything anyone has ever come up with. So just out of pure statistics, all religions that have ever existed, and will exist that aren't based on some information, are just wrong. It could be that there is one being, it could be that it is a race of beings. It could be that there never was a being to begin with. It could literally be an infinite amount of combinations of things, some of which we can't even be able to comprehend. That is what I believe. Go ahead and equate it to the existance of Pokemon, because I think I might be entertained by you trying. P.S. Good quote. I will need to remind myself that I should equate religions to Pokemon. Not many of the people in the newer generation even know about fairy tales, but Pokemon is almost ubiquitous.
OT: I would also liek to point out that for centuries Christians used to demean, even kill, people for not believing. Yet the moment they come under attack "Oh no our poor feelings are hurt, stop it." Just an observation. I think religious people just need to man up, what they are going through is not even 1/1000th what others went through when a given religion was widely believed. There are also still places where people are demeaned and killed due to religious reasons.
Edit: I forgot to mention, you were very demeaning and sconrful towards people who do believe in fairy tales. |
Bweh, fine. I thought you'd give something easier. I can more or less accept that as true though I just skimmed it. I was pretty much going to use that to something to the same effect to say that anything is just about as true as anything else.
Going back, I'd like to ask, solely for the purpose of discussion, why exactly you value stuff that has been observed. And, I'd like to add, whose reliable observations would you trust and why those observations prove anything.
As for your on-topic comment, I think everyone knows how rotten Christianity has been over the ages. But you have to see that that has dropped tremendously since (I'd presume the Renaissance when everything went secular, but I'm not sure). Also, the Christians who are offended easily are rarely the same ones who went around (or go around) killing people for their beliefs. It's completely unfair to judge one Christian by the acts of another, yet I've noticed that people seem to judge all religious people by the acts of some Christians in the past. A lot of religions have little to no blood on their hands.
As for your final edit, I indeed am, but there's some practicality to it. Whilst it's certainly not ideal, like it or not, you have to respect religions more simply because there are more people to be offended. If you're in a minority like those who believe in fairy tales, you'll have to suffer somewhat.
It's the same logic as only having a males and females bathroom. I bet it offends people who are classified as neither, but it's simply impractical to waste my time building a third one when so few people would use it.
“These are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others.” – Groucho Marx
