It really bothers me when atheists at their most smug get described as being simply on the other side of the same coin. It's not even the same currency. Are my also just like religious fundamentalists because I scream at people
'YOUR WRONG! BATMAN IS NOT REAL!'.
What makes the existence of Batman less likely than the existence of god? But should I respect peoples opinion to believe in Batman anyway? Not really. Because I would be facilitating stupidity and ignorance. That's not being ignorant. Being like Pat Condell is not being ignorant. It's cutting straight to the point - no B.S. Why should we allow for something we on our own have entirely synthesized in our brains to dictate the rights of other human beings?
To have a poorly fabricated story only some believe in direct politics? Culture? To say in 2010 what people can and cannot do? Pat Condell is atheists very own rotweiler and by christ do atheists need a few rotweilers. Why roll over in the dirt and wait to see what happens with these cracker barrel idiots?
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Originally Posted by jesus christ
how do they? and prezzie is right that his being a hypocrite by acting all smug.
and how the heck did the universe get made if there isnt a god or some sort of life form out there?
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Why are you assuming the Universe was made? Is it really that absurd to suggest it has always existed in some form? Does there need, then, to be a reason?
A lot of scientists are now convinced the Big Bang was not the start but merely a bridging point. What about the multiverse? Or an endless cycle of 'breath in, breath out' Big Bang, expansion, contraction and Big Bang? Again and again and again? Why did the Universe have to 'start'? And why for a reason?
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I understand why atheists feel they can be arrogant
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Please. Atheists
do believe there is something greater than them ... the Universe. We also see ourselves as just another animal. We are not the ones claiming to be the superior species who had divine intervention intercept their lives in order to give them a straight hotline to the man upstairs.
Knowing the facts about the scientific world does not make you smug. Maybe in the eyes of those who can't be arsed reading the research and would prefer to just continually allow for the existence of a higher cosmic order through endless roundabout questions like
'well how did this then become this?' because they just like the idea of it, sure. Even easily readable pop science books like Stephen Hawkings new tome 'The Grand Design' would be appealing to such god bothering, 'better connected' nitwits. A whopping large print, colour illustrated 200 page behemot of a book that is endlessly more fascinating than any 'holy book' and one that tackles the exact same questions only within the realms of a very, very reliable medium. The medium of science.
It's what religious people first turn to when they get sick. Saying prayers in a hospital.