Why I'm an atheist

[philipma1957]

I'm still waiting for your imaginary friend to smite me....

....Oh jeeezus....I must be bored tonight.....  (burp)

God is giving you the opportunity to turn to Him. Later in life, He will smite you as you asked. If you haven't turned to Him by then, you won't find any relief from your smiting.

Your description of your god sounds like god is a bully and an a-hole.

[sirazimuth]

This guy BADecker must get off thinking about god. I bet he imagines jesus when he reaches climax. the 2nd cumming coming

ftfy

[Lambowei]

With that kind of thinking we would still be living in caves, wet, hungry and waiting for Gods of light, fire, and rain to do stuff for us.

I'll add that it's either very hypocritical or just plain stupid of philipma1957 to use the internet and his computer to post such a message, given that computers and the internet are build exclusively based on scientific principles.

[BADecker]

I'm still waiting for your imaginary friend to smite me....

....Oh jeeezus....I must be bored tonight.....  (burp)

God is giving you the opportunity to turn to Him. Later in life, He will smite you as you asked. If you haven't turned to Him by then, you won't find any relief from your smiting.

Your description of your god sounds like god is a bully and an a-hole.

Hey, I want to thank you for that. You are helping me to understand why you and some of your fellow atheists like paying taxes. It's because you enjoy being slaves!

I mean, here is God, your Servant, giving you what you are asking for in all the ways, and you think He is a Bully and an A-hole... even to smite you as you asked for.

What? Do you want God to make you into a slave so He doesn't do for you what you asked... the smiting, I mean? You are starting to sound like af_newbie, who wants to force everyone to not enslave themselves if they want a master. Except that you got it just the opposite. You want slavery for yourself.

Both of you jokers simply cancel yourselves out by saying you want freedom to be atheists, yet want enslavement so that you won't be hurt by God for wanting atheism. You totally don't make sense.

You guys are probably scientists. No wonder science is having such a difficult time of it.

[BADecker]

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Science is not a belief system.  Rupert needs to go back to school.

yeah actually it is.

basically any system

 atheist
religious
scientific

Are  all belief systems.

Science does require repeatable independent experiments 🧫.

But still involves belief that repeatable independent experiments are not a simple trick done by a god or gods.

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With that kind of thinking we would still be living in caves, wet, hungry and waiting for Gods of light, fire, and rain to do stuff for us.

Repeatable independent experiments are just that, a reliable way to validate results.

If you think they are just a trick "done by god or gods", you need to buy a clue.

The scientific method is the best epistemic tool we have.  It is not a belief system.

When people say that they "believe in science" what they are really mean that they trust results produced by science. 
Others, who have no idea what science is, immediately claim that it is a belief system because some people say that
they "believe in science".

By this reasoning, you can call 2+2=4 (in base of 10) equation a "belief system".

Oh, blab. Here you go again, thinking that 2+2=4, when there isn't any such thing as 2. Everything is different. Nothing is the same. There aren't any two things, because everything is different. It's always 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1... on to as far as you want to go with it. That's why ultra complex math fails. Math differences start to break down complexity that requires that there aren't any differences.

[lee82917]

I think that it is not so important whether a person is religious or not. There is too much deception and other negative manifestations of society in the world. Therefore, it is important to be yourself acting on the basis of good intentions.

[BADecker]

I think that it is not so important whether a person is religious or not. There is too much deception and other negative manifestations of society in the world. Therefore, it is important to be yourself acting on the basis of good intentions.

When you look at a more complete definition of the word "religion," you will find that all people are religious in one way or another. They don't have to have a formal religion to have their personal, daily religion - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t.

This is one of the things that would make an atheist to be a religious person. A person who happens to be an atheist because he has never considered the idea of God, is probably the closest thing to a real atheists that their is. A formal atheist knows that he is attempting to be an atheist, because he knows that God might exist somewhere.

It's not that a formal atheist DOESN'T believe in atheism. It's that he doesn't believe it as strongly as somebody who never thought about it. And mostly, the formal atheist is one who attempts to hide all the evidences for God in nature, from himself, so that he can focus only on his atheism - atheism religion.

This makes atheism a far greater religion than the formal religions... because it's all about hiding reality from the atheist, right in his own thinking. At least the God-religions have faith in something that there is evidence for.

[BADecker]

No, thank you.

But I didn't offer you anything.

You offered your post to anybody in the world who wants to learn enough English so that he can get on the forum and read it.

[Lambowei]

Now I know why baddie always includes the sunglasses emoticon. He's just blind to his religious bs, he's got the blinders on.

[BADecker]

Now I know why baddie always includes the sunglasses emoticon. He's just blind to his religious bs, he's got the blinders on.

My sunglasses are formulated to filter out atheism stupidity. Not that I don't filter out such stupidity anyway, but the sunglasses make it easier.

[BADecker]

Calif. Mega-Church Cancels Hospital “Faith Healing” Sessions Over Coronavirus

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/atheism-secularism/calif-mega-church-cancels-hospital-faith-healing-sessions-over-coronavirus--24Sd3w82EqlN8kG28LAhQ

From your article:

“Many visit Redding weekly, hoping that God will touch them. I am happy to report that many leave well and whole,” Johnson writes. “But many others leave in the same condition in which they came. I refuse to blame God for this, as though He has a purpose in their disease. While Jesus did not heal everyone alive in His time, He did heal everyone who came to Him. His is the only standard worth following.”

From a science article:

Coronavirus just caused the American Physical Society to cancel its biggest meeting of the year.

So, what does this have to do with atheism? God does what He wants to do. If you don't like it, tough. He is giving you what you are asking for.

[BADecker]

I did not ask him for Covid-19, did you?  Why did he give it to you?

Well of course you didn't ask Him. You don't believe He exists, right? So, how could you ask Him?

The thing is, He knew you wanted it, but in His love for you He didn't want to upset you by giving it to you, thereby proving to you that He existed... 'cause you don't really want that proof. So, He gave it to me, to pass on to you. Once you get it from me, He will protect me from it, and you will have what you want.

[Lambowei]

@af_newbie Nevermind BADecker, as you can see from his sunglasses he's just stoned, that's why he can't formulate a single coherent thought.

[BADecker]

Being aware of the existence of God, and all the things He has said to us in His Word, the Bible, helps us to easily out-think any or all of those ignorant atheist jokers. That's why they can't even ask the questions that they want, or think well enough to speak the things that they want to speak meaningfully. And when they realize that they flubbed the things that they are saying, they get angry with godly people, and turn to violence. Of course, they only destroy themselves with their violence. After all, killing Christians only gives Christians a secure position in Heaven.

[Lambowei]

Religion is about faith, not science. It's about belief, not logic. That's why BADecker fails at logic, he's a believer.

[BADecker]

Religion is about faith, not science. It's about belief, not logic. That's why BADecker fails at logic, he's a believer.

That's exactly why much of science is religion. It ignores the logic of God's existence, and tries to make itself and others believe it has the answers.

[Lambowei]

As you can see, BAD is bad at logic. There's no logic on religion, but he can't see it because he's got his blinders on, which he thinks are sunglasses.

[BADecker]

As you can see, BAD is bad at logic. There's no logic on religion, but he can't see it because he's got his blinders on, which he thinks are sunglasses.

God is loving. You don't have to be so scared of Him that you try to wish Him out of existence like that.

 

[Lambowei]

God is loving. You don't have to be so scared of Him that you try to wish Him out of existence like that.

You're like a child that doesn't know yet that santa claus and the three wise men are your parents. You believe in god, but that's just another absurd belief. So I don't need to wish anyone out here, you are wishing god actually existed. You talk to yourself and think you're talking to god. You believe there's something after death and when you get there you'll just get worms into your skull honestly.  You better take full advantage of this life and stop the bullshit because from what we actually know there ain't any other life afterwards.

[BADecker]

God is loving. You don't have to be so scared of Him that you try to wish Him out of existence like that.

You're like a child that doesn't know yet that santa claus and the three wise men are your parents. You believe in god, but that's just another absurd belief. So I don't need to wish anyone out here, you are wishing god actually existed. You talk to yourself and think you're talking to god. You believe there's something after death and when you get there you'll just get worms into your skull honestly.  You better take full advantage of this life and stop the bullshit because from what we actually know there ain't any other life afterwards.

The exact same things could be said for you and what you believe. The only part that doesn't work for what you believe, is that things in the universe don't happen without causes. So, what is the cause of the universe?

Before the universe existed, whatever there was, caused it. Since cause and effect are universe qualities, we don't have a clue about C&E affecting anything outside the universe, before the universe existed.

The order and organization in the universe shows that whatever caused the universe, had the ability to plan and design. Of course, because such planning and designing ability isn't like planning and designing ability within the universe, we don't know the depths of what that planning was like, and what the Planner was/is like... at least not without being told.

So we see that anyone who thinks that God doesn't exist is tossing out the evidence, and the scientific evidence.