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Atheism doesn't exist?:)

Darkforbid

Well-Known Member
You are right on that one. Which doesn't disqualify the rest of the post.

Really? Like every bit of research on human morality shows 'Our moral principles are more flexible and self-serving than we would like to admit."

Personally I think moralising from a non-moral testing environment is a pathetic undertaking
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
I heard this argument before. Sine atheist cannot do bad in the name of, it's O.K. It seems a a little bit easy. If an atheist did something wrong, that's O.K since he didnt do it in the name of, and a religious guy, his religion is responsible.
But maybe the essence of atheist can lead to bad . For example, if a man doesn't fear punishment.....

Or someone believes they are going to Heaven ...
 

night912

Well-Known Member
Yes. Catholics are theist. So are Muslims and Hindus. I have no clue what point you are attempting to make here. Certainly nothing that relates to anything I wrote.
Nothing releate to anything you wrote? Proving to you that an anti-theist Christian is possible does relate to what you wrote. Or are denying that you never said that an anti-theist Christian is impossible? Are you lying?
 

dianaiad

Well-Known Member
Nothing releate to anything you wrote? Proving to you that an anti-theist Christian is possible does relate to what you wrote. Or are denying that you never said that an anti-theist Christian is impossible? Are you lying?

I wrote: it is not possible for a Christian to be anti-theist. I posted the DEFINITION of anti-theist:

adjective
adjective: anti-theist
  1. opposed to belief in the existence of a god or gods.

I wrote: it is only possible for a Christian (or any member of any other belief system) to be 'every OTHER theist."

There are lots of those.

But they are not 'anti-theist.' They cannot be, because that would mean they are AGAINST THEMSELVES.

THEIST:
  1. a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe

So anti-theists are people who are against ALL theists and theism, not simply everybody's theism but theirs.

So...anti-theists are ANTI ALL theists and theism in general.
Not all atheists are anti-theist, but NO theist can be.
ALL anti-theists are atheist, because one cannot be theist and anti-theist at the same time. Once one is a theist, one can be anti-pretty much every other theist, and there are some who are really nasty about it, but they are anti-Catholic or anti-Semitic or anti Jehovah's Witness or anti Muslim or anti Mormon or anti Protestant or whatever, but anti-theist in general?

No.

Now what the heck is so difficult about this concept? You know, using a word properly and understanding what it actually means?
 

rational experiences

Veteran Member
If a human owned no topic to discuss first, then there is no atheist argument.

For we are all just humans and we are all just living on a stone O planet, inside of what we teach is an atmospheric body of cold gases that keeps us safe from heated radiation in space.

How life was taught as a human that it was safe by those conditions existing for human life supported existing.

A human first owns their self....and claims self is rationally natural, and spiritual means I live in natural balances, with Nature that supports my every need.

Then there is science.

Science was first applied to being the atheist theme.....not a relative argument about conditions that allows balances and equality......the states of natural history.

If anyone used a rational argument.

God O the planet history was said to be relative, so spiritual, natural humanity named it relative. And use the word relative to mean, is related to self existence, as a history...without it being the relative.

For information used as words give identity to what is being expressed by that natural self.

And you cannot be both a self and the relative at the same time.....for you are thinking….which is what a human then also says is relative to the conditions of my own self advice.

O the entity discussion relative to life existing was always just about a planet and humans said, I will call that planet entity, relative to being my entity history, from a God O body, the stone to my own self as a thinking ideal.

To teach, so never change God.

Which is not rationally an argument....it is just a human discussion.
 

Darkforbid

Well-Known Member
I wrote: it is not possible for a Christian to be anti-theist. I posted the DEFINITION of anti-theist:

adjective
adjective: anti-theist
  1. opposed to belief in the existence of a god or gods.

I wrote: it is only possible for a Christian (or any member of any other belief system) to be 'every OTHER theist."

There are lots of those.

But they are not 'anti-theist.' They cannot be, because that would mean they are AGAINST THEMSELVES.

THEIST:
  1. a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe

So anti-theists are people who are against ALL theists and theism, not simply everybody's theism but theirs.

So...anti-theists are ANTI ALL theists and theism in general.
Not all atheists are anti-theist, but NO theist can be.
ALL anti-theists are atheist, because one cannot be theist and anti-theist at the same time. Once one is a theist, one can be anti-pretty much every other theist, and there are some who are really nasty about it, but they are anti-Catholic or anti-Semitic or anti Jehovah's Witness or anti Muslim or anti Mormon or anti Protestant or whatever, but anti-theist in general?

No.

Now what the heck is so difficult about this concept? You know, using a word properly and understanding what it actually means?

? There are theists who are against any form of organised religion
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
It was a catchy title. I didn't speak about atheists, but atheism. Even after that I didn't attack people, but challanged arguments. I think I was respectful, and I didn't always receive that respect, back ( I am not talking about you, of course)
No, you've actually been quite disrespectful throughout this thread.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
And the current English National anthem is called 'God save Queen'

Total straw man designed to indoctrinate pride in empire and royalty, the country did not write it

Oh. And the king or queen are not the country
 
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BilliardsBall

Veteran Member
You just changed "animosity" into "hate".

I shouldn't have to explain why that isn't fair / honest.
I don't "hate" theists.



That's just stupid imo.



That doesn't make any difference to the principle of the matter. It's still insulting and disturbing.



I've never received any gifts from bible thumpers.
And if by "gift" you mean the religion itself, I'ld call that a poisoned gift and as such, not "free" at all. It in fact comes at a very big cost.



1. I don't hate theists. well, not in general anyway

2. beliefs inform actions. certain beliefs are extremely harmfull and/or inform reprehensible acts / behaviour. Not to go all Godwin on you, but the holocaust was the result of harmfull beliefs. I'm not the one who's hatefull. It's the doctrine, the beliefs, that are hatefull. I don't see what the problem is with standing up to and exposing harmfull beliefs. In fact, I'ld say it's a moral duty to do so.


3. and yet, your religion teaches that eternal punishment awaits for those that believe the wrong thing.

Free gifts = salvation, spirit, spiritual gifts

your religion teaches that eternal punishment awaits for those that believe the wrong thing

No, it teaches eternal punishment for one's personal sins, and that only morally perfect people can (logically) live in a utopia without ruining it.
 

BilliardsBall

Veteran Member
Have you actually read the bible? Christianity teaches genocide, murder, slavery, rape... Pro life what?

I am speaking about real life and fact, maybe thats what is confusing you.

Your statement was "God's people tried to kill your children". Are you confused?
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I have a Rabbi's diploma and a college degree, and more. But I do admit that i didn't learn much philosophy, except in high school. I was more attracted by natural sciences. But what difference does it make, anyway?

You called a philosophical argument that you didn't understand stupid. Later, you said you thought you were respectful.

it didn't prevent Descartes from being a believer.

Irrelevant. It did prevent him from saying that he was 100% certain of anything but the existence of his own consciousness.

maybe the essence of atheist can lead to bad

Is this what you meant by being respectful? Why would an atheist's essence lead to being bad more so than a theist? Simply by having no god belief? Belief in a god often leads to immorality - lying and bigotry come to mind right away.

You reveal a sense of moral superiority when you confide such sentiments. Sorry, but I just don't see.

Perhaps this is part of the reason so many atheists are anti-theist as well. What do we need with all of these religions teaching people to believe that we are immoral in the eyes of a god - vile, none good, the moral equivalent of murderers and whoremongers, people you are warned not to be yoked to, and fit to be tortured forever.

it is childish to hate people because of what they believe

But you do anyway.

I think you should not conflate "passive-aggressive" with "hateful".

I didn't. But you failed to respond to the substance of the post. You accept no responsibility for the enmity you engender, instead blaming it on hatred for a kind, loving person simply because of his belief in a god. So, I've repeated the point for emphasis, a point you call combative.

I think you should stop reading my mind to see whether or not I'm passive-aggressive

I'm reading your words. You're an angry person calling the objects of his enmity friends.

I LOVE you

I don't believe you, and you degrade the word using it in this context. But that's what your religion teaches you - to call hatred love. I've already shown you how hateful your scriptures are regarding unbelievers, and you seem to have learned from them.

all your posts are combative

No, they just contradict you, and you can't tell the difference.

Really like atheist leaders have never slaughtered massive numbers of their own population

Irrelevant to her comment contradicting the idea that Christianity is pro-life. Atheists make no such claim.

Also, atheism is irrelevant to brutal, authoritarian regimes. These killers are no more lethal for being atheists, and would do nothing differently if they were theists.
 
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