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Originally Posted by 08marsh

Did I say that my point couldn't be applied to religious people too?

Sorry that you just wasted your time typing up that very long reply when you didn't really need to.
My point was about the atheist we are discussing: the man in the video and to an extent Arista. I could have worded my reply more clearly but it was in response to Arista's post which was basically being patronising to all religious people. It's like saying all muslim's are terrorists, it's not true.

And religious people don't need the sacred scripture to back up anything. The scripture is the cause of their beliefs and religion is all about faith, which isn't about having solid proof.

Suppose it just winds me up when people rant about religion being wrong. "There is no god", "How can you believe in something you can't see" etc, etc. Yet do they have proof that God doesn't exist?

And whoever posted "Whatever the truth is, Religion is far from it". Well, religion is a pretty broad spectrum in general, they don't all believe in the same things. And whether a specific religion is "whatever the truth is" or not, how would you know?

What about the man in the video and Arista? They are every bit as hopelessly fundamentalist as ... well ... fundamentalists it would seem. I'm still not in favour of levelling the 'no you shut up!' argument at them.

I'm not a strict atheists by the way. I just sound a lot like one considering I would rather defend them in their cause to wrangle any semblance of world power away from the type of religious people who believe word for word in The Bible and suchlike.

I have my own quasi-spiritual-cosmic-arse-psychedelic-casualty views I usually revert back to every four or five days when I realize that strict atheism as simple as it is to get on with simply doesn't satisfy me enough.