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Originally Posted by Jamie89

Surely religious people believe that god isn't a physical entity, and non religious people believe that god doesn't exist. Does that not answer the OP?

The question of 'why is it acceptable to make fun of religious people' is a really interesting debate though. Mainly because the most common insult that usually gets thrown at religious people is that the whole concept is stupid (the implication being that the religious person is stupid for believing), and yet we know that intelligence has no bearing on whether or not someone has faith. You get plenty of stupid and intelligent people on both sides of the argument. So how does someone who is a non believer reconcile in their minds that even though they believe the concept of a religion is stupid, someone with equal or even greater intelligence to them might believe in said religion? Does this not automatically negate the 'religions are stupid' idea, and if so, does that not make it a meaningless insult? In which case, why is that acceptable during a debate about religion? (Comedy/satire etc is different and in context is perfectly acceptable as a way of poking fun at anyone imo, but I'm referring to making fun of religion during a debate.) Most of the questioning on here seems to be aimed at believers so there's one for the atheists (Personally I don't believe in god but I can't know for certain that I'm right. I'm stupid though, so )

So Jaimie how do you reconcile the fact that in general when a country develops and educates its population religion dwindles and the fact that the most religious countries by far are the least developed?

Its not hard to look at say India or Norway or Nigeria and France


Educate the people and the need for gods is massively reduced