Why Atheism is Appealing

[ChristineM]

So you refuse to provide an inference and merely assert it as obvious.



I see that even after more than 4000 posts you've yet to learn how to properly respond to other people's posts by dividing the quotes so that it is clear which paragraph you're responding to. Like this, even the little intelligibility that could be found in your (typically substance-less) posts gets lost.



As usual, you're either purposefully misrepresenting what I said or really suffer from a serious lack of reading comprehension. I never said anything in that post went for most atheists, let alone all. Further more, the examples of my friends were just there to prove the point that the remark in question was one about my personal life as well as false. Convenient that you'd completely fail to address what was the point of contention in the first place and are now switching the topic. Forget learning how to make intelligible responses, at least learn how to read.



Oh jolly good, not all criticism is worth responding to. Especially not one coming from people who go by constantly attacking strawmen instead of paying attention to what I'm actually saying. The ignore list happens to be a convenient little thing made so that the drivel that such people spout doesn't appear in my alert feed. You weren't the one I ignored, as I tend to give people quite a lot of chances before I choose to cut them off, but you're definitely on your way. Don't expect any further replies from me in this thread.

Interesting a threat to place me on ignore ignored. I wonder why?

Your posts are evidence as indicated by several posters whom you chose to ignore..

I have dyslexia, i have no problem understands my style of posting, neither do most others. The only 2 to complain seem to
have serious anal issues.

Well perhaps you need to reevaluate your own writing style because it seems several readers took the same meaning as i did from your posts

Oh here we go, i have responded to the origin point, you choose to misrepresent it, not my problem if you now choose to pretend it never happened because you dont like the response.

Yes i enjoy attacking strawmen and you have provided many to attack, thanks.

 

[Shad]

I seem not to find the text of the OP in "Ends and Means".

It's not. It is 3 or 4 sets of sentences combined together into one quote which share a related topic but address different points. You can search by copying the first three or so words of each sentence.

 

[atanu]

It's not. It is 3 or 4 sets of sentences combined together into one quote which share a related topic but address different points. You can search by copying the first three or so words of each sentence.

Thanks.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

(Sorry, my quote feature ain't workin)
@Bob the Unbeliever wrote:
"are not biblical wives supposed to be entirely submissive to their "lord and master" husbands? "

.....Just as biblical husbands are to be entirely loving to their wives! -- Ephesians 5:25-33. (Vs.28 especially)

Is that a bad situation? My wife doesn't think so....she's happy.

Because I love her, I consider what she wants all the time. And she usually gets it!

So you are pretty much ignoring what Paul wrote in the bible? Gotcha!

I'm gratified that you are-- which explains your happy marriage! Good on you!

 

[Milton Platt]

Aldous Huxley:
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do. For myself, as no doubt for most of my friends, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. The supporters of this system claimed that it embodied the meaning - the Christian meaning, they insisted - of the world. There was one admirably simple method of confuting these people and justifying ourselves in our erotic revolt: we would deny that the world had any meaning whatever.”

Quote by Aldous Huxley: “I had motives for not wanting the world to have...”


Mr. Huxley is saying he doesn't want to believe in God, specifically the Christian God, because God has moral standards for us to live by, but he wants no restrictions....he wants "sexual freedom"!
(I should've used past tense: he died in '63. His freedom doesn't matter now, does it?)

Wanting freedom from sexual restraint, I think, has been a driving force in promoting Atheism.

Comments? (No cake recipes, please...I learned my lesson.[Inside joke for @Sunstone ])

To each his own, I guess. I am an atheist because the various god propositions have shown to have insufficient evidence to support them.

 

[Revoltingest]

To each his own, I guess. I am an atheist because the various god propositions have shown to have insufficient evidence to support them.

Whoever this Huxley guy is/was,
you're clearly more enlightened than he.

 

[Thermos aquaticus]

While Huxley's rationale obviously shouldn't be taken to represent all atheists, it is not at all uncommon to see people (especially those in pragmatist and postmosernist waters which look for things they consider more important than "truth") to reject a worldview such as Christianity precisely because it imposes restrictions which they do not like.

Or they may find the restrictions to be silly, especially for an all powerful creator deity. How silly is it that one should not wear fabric made of mixed fibers, or not eat shellfish? After awhile, they start to look like restrictions that humans would impose, especially once you become more comfortable with what it means to be human. One of the ways that laws lose their legitimacy is when the laws don't make sense to the people living under them. The same goes for religious beliefs, at least for many.