pizzahut451 said:
dib8rman said:
RCTjunkie said:
I find that on the internet forums, people are very respectful to different genders, races, and sexual orientations, but there is something about the belief in God that pushes some (certainly not all) people to become extremely bigoted, more generalizing, and overall more hateful and hostile to this specific group of people.
Take this random quote:
"I've noticed Christians are hypocrites."
What if we replaced "Christains" with another group:
"I've noticed African Americans are hypocrites."
It seems more hateful and politically incorrect, right? So why is it that people with a belief in God are seemingly excluded for the political corectness that help protects so many other groups?
I know certain groups of people were oppressed over time, but there should be a call for equality, not revenge......
Maybe I'm just too sensitive, but it just comes off that way to me......
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Starting today I'm going to start beliving in African American belief diety thing-a-mabob.. damn does that even make sense?
Last I checked a good chunk of African Americans were theists though so then can a theist still be a theist but also be atheist?
I know being a pinker pigment doesn't make you a theist or atheist though... why am I even bothering.
Sad OP is sad. World views are to be criticized and ridiculed when asserted to be correct without any evidence to the claim. In the theist case the very virtue of Christianity is the absence of evidence aka faith.
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And how is atheism any diffrent than Christianity when it comes to evidence and faith? Is there any evidence that supports non-existance of God? HELL NO. Atheist believe theire is no God based on no evidence. Christians beleive there is a God based on no evidence. So we should ridicule Atehism as well right? But, Richard Dawking forbiid than anyone thinks anything even remotly bad about your supeiror beleif. Stop acting like atheism is a proven beleif or something. its not even close to that.
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Well, I wasn't arguing for atheism there, just pointing out two very polar world views.
The comparison I was drawing was between world views versus ethnicity. It would seem that the OP basically said all african americans view the world in a unique way from other humans; if you care to remember the context of the OP at all pizza, that's what he was talking about or at least his example.
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But I'll say this about your post though, Richard Dawkins if I remember correctly is a PR guy from Oxford, there is a fancy title but I don't remember it. Now Dawkins travels the world to debate popular theists and when asked who does he refuse to challenge and why? He said he only challenges "those who have a reason to believe it and all of it. Not people whose only cling to fame is that they can goof around with words." Now beyond what the man has sayed I don't know who the "anyone" category your mentioned is filled with.
You've made a mistake though, Atheism isn't about there being no god, it's that whatever god you choose to believe in that god has no holding on the changes of everyday action. That is to say that tributing and performing other rituals (prayer, mass, magicical invokation, sacrifice and so on) do not change will not pause the laws of physics in favor of a miracle.
To put it plainly can you prove to me Unicorns exist? Well I can't prove to you that they don't either, but I can say that regardless of their existance or lack of - life goes on.
