- 18 Apr 2017 20:07
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I am an atheist, I have kids, and I didn't "raise them atheist," in any manner comparable to how religious parents raise their kids to follow their religion. I was simply honest about my own views and the reasons for them, and yes, I "let" them listen to whoever came by, including religious relatives. All four are highly intelligent, thoughtful, and rational atheists.
The theistic majority typically try to shut down discussion and debate that challenges their beliefs.
Nope.
Nope. Has never happened. In Japan, the most atheistic country in the world, it's unknown.
Your claims are just objectively false.
OK, so in what you are no doubt pleased to call your "mind," Indian widows decided to climb on their husbands' funeral pyres, and then tried to come up with a plausible rationalization for doing so.
Seriously, do you ever read what you have written before hitting the "Submit" button?
I guess that must be why Galileo defied the Catholic church....
Refuted by the University of Minnesota Twins Study.
False and absurd.
Like all the suicide bombers who decide to blow themselves up, and then try to come up with a plausible reason to do it...?
It would be difficult to construct a less rational view.
Dagoth Ur wrote:If you had kids you wouldn't raise them atheist? You would just let them listen to whoever came by?
I am an atheist, I have kids, and I didn't "raise them atheist," in any manner comparable to how religious parents raise their kids to follow their religion. I was simply honest about my own views and the reasons for them, and yes, I "let" them listen to whoever came by, including religious relatives. All four are highly intelligent, thoughtful, and rational atheists.
I don't think the majority of humanity tends toward absolutism but yeah pretty much all dumb people anywhere try to shut down discussion and debate regardless of ethos. Since the majority of humanity are theists I don't think what you are saying here holds water.
The theistic majority typically try to shut down discussion and debate that challenges their beliefs.
New Atheists.
Nope.
When atheists stop being a very tiny minority you will.
Nope. Has never happened. In Japan, the most atheistic country in the world, it's unknown.
Your claims are just objectively false.
Dagoth Ur wrote:Wrong. Matter is all that matters. Ideas come after decisions are already made.
OK, so in what you are no doubt pleased to call your "mind," Indian widows decided to climb on their husbands' funeral pyres, and then tried to come up with a plausible rationalization for doing so.
Seriously, do you ever read what you have written before hitting the "Submit" button?
Dagoth Ur wrote:Convictions are only as strong as the conditions that reinforce them.
I guess that must be why Galileo defied the Catholic church....
Without coming from where you do, when you did, with whom you did, etc nothing about who you are would be the same.
Refuted by the University of Minnesota Twins Study.
You are 100% a product of the conditions of your life.
False and absurd.
These ideas you have are just your mind figuring out a framework that justifies these decisions.
Like all the suicide bombers who decide to blow themselves up, and then try to come up with a plausible reason to do it...?
It would be difficult to construct a less rational view.
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