Euphoric atheists

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Guy wants religion gone by "any means necessary", then tries to backpedal when asked what he means by that.

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FlamingPie said:
Guy wants religion gone by "any means necessary", then tries to backpedal when asked what he means by that.

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>Talks about making the world a better place
>Has actually thought up an elaborate plan of persecuting the religious for the crime of being religious
>Wants to imprison people for their beliefs, even if they're not harming anybody

Man, if I were the person responding to this nutjob, I'd just replace the word "religion" with "atheism" (as in outlawing the gathering of atheists or imprisoning atheists unless they agree to convert to a religion) and see how badly he shits his pants out of anger.
 
Cosmos said:
>Talks about making the world a better place
>Has actually thought up an elaborate plan of persecuting the religious for the crime of being religious
>Wants to imprison people for their beliefs, even if they're not harming anybody

Man, if I were the person responding to this nutjob, I'd just replace the word "religion" with "atheism" (as in outlawing the gathering of atheists or imprisoning atheists unless they agree to convert to a religion) and see how badly he shits his pants out of anger.
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Nice how he simply equates being non-religious as improving the world. As if no atheist were ever ignorant, violent or hateful.
 
Adamska said:
No, I meant his family's crypt. Not that Dan Brown level bad idea. The crypt that included his brother James.

I really do find it funny that so many of these people take a lack of faith and decide to put faith into said lack of faith.
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Do you mean the James Ossuary? Because, Devil's Advocate here, that inscription is considered pretty suspicious IIRC.

But yeah, historically speaking, Jesus most likely existed. Whether or not he was the Son of God is up for debate, but the movement didn't just spring up out of nothing around 3 AD.

As to lack of faith ... Believe in the nonexistence of something can become, for lack of a better phrase, an article of faith. Kind of reminds me of those Zen encounter dialogues where nothing seems to make sense.
 
Slowboat to China said:
As to lack of faith ... Believe in the nonexistence of something can become, for lack of a better phrase, an article of faith. Kind of reminds me of those Zen encounter dialogues where nothing seems to make sense.
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That's what can seperate a euphoric from a regular nonbeliever. A regular nonbeliever lacks faith because they've seen no evidence of a diety. A euphoric treats their nonbelief as an epiphany that cannot be questioned, a prophecy if you will. A regular nonbeliever values science and reason. A euphoric insists that science is perfect and immune from human error... In much the same way that religious fundamentalists insist their faith cannot be questioned.

TL, DR- euphorics really, really want a religion of their own. They just don't want to believe in a god.
 
FlamingPie said:
Guy wants religion gone by "any means necessary", then tries to backpedal when asked what he means by that.

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I'm a very patriotic person and would never thing of going against the United States in a situation. However, if something like this were to ever happen you had better bet I would fight to the death over this. This sort of event would make the Civil War look like a walk in the park.

If the world banned religion and tried to enforce it, Christians and Muslims would stop fighting for a moment in order to massively slaughter the euphorics.
 
Womacker said:
I'm a very patriotic person and would never thing of going against the United States in a situation. However, if something like this were to ever happen you had better bet I would fight to the death over this. This sort of event would make the Civil War look like a walk in the park.
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The world would never do it. Because most atheists would oppose it, too.
 
One of my cousins just declared himself an atheist after years of living in a very religious Mormon family.
I don't know what it is about atheism that causes people to do this, but the moment he did, he revealed himself as a complete jerk, and tried to "convert" the rest of the family. He's basically gone from "Ok to hang around with," to "completely smug and intolerable." He just won't shut up about it.

I really don't understand the need for atheists of the euphoric sort to declare their atheism... It's really no different from someone declaring they're Born Again, or converted to Jehovah's Witness or something. It's even more annoying when they start trying to drag other people along with them, linking atheist videos and literature, and the like.

I don't think most people actually care about "the Truth" when it comes to god or religion. Knowing that god is real or not is not going to change the fact that you still have to work and support yourself, and you still have to go about your day to day business of being a human being. But if a bunch of self-righteous jerkwads go around trying to convince you there is no god, all they're doing is destroying whatever comforting illusion you may have had that allowed you to go about your life safely ignorant of all those deep, troubling philosophical questions that can never be answered.
 
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"Rockey science"

Also, every time I see someone bragging about their IQ I just automatically assume they took one of those shitty, free online tests that told them what they wanted to hear.
 
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After the matador of wit vanquished the bull of ignorance, the hottest girl in class tore off her crucifix necklace, converted to science, and became his girlfriend. The creationist was expelled for being a mindless sheep while all of the other students jeered at him and chanted OP's name. OP would later go on to pursue his passion of breaking people's faith by visiting sick children in the hospital and informing them that after they died they would just rot in the ground forever.
 
Cosmos said:
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After the matador of wit vanquished the bull of ignorance, the hottest girl in class tore off her crucifix necklace, converted to science, and became his girlfriend. The creationist was expelled for being a mindless sheep while all of the other students jeered at him and chanted OP's name. OP would later go on to pursue his passion of breaking people's faith by visiting sick children in the hospital and informing them that after they died they would just rot in the ground forever.
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tl;dr I totally beaten a creationist in a debate really. Everyone applauded and I'm not making this up to sound edgy and more important than I'm actually am.

Using my own skepticism, this FB post is about as true as the ancient alien shows on the History channel. The actual class would most likely not really care and any applause would come more out of just obligation than actually siding with this guy
 
Not to mention that in a college class, "debates" are usually organized by the prof as a forensic exercise, with sides assigned according to the course needs, or sometimes even arbitrarily. Even if it did happen, there's not a great chance that the "creationist" actually held the views he was expressing. How lame is it to boast over beating someone in an argument they may not have even cared about in the first place?
 
ChurchOfGodBear said:
Not to mention that in a college class, "debates" are usually organized by the prof as a forensic exercise, with sides assigned according to the course needs, or sometimes even arbitrarily. Even if it did happen, there's not a great chance that the "creationist" actually held the views he was expressing. How lame is it to boast over beating someone in an argument they may not have even cared about in the first place?
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If you only have experience debating some side in an argument you actually believe, you're at a competitive disadvantage anyway.

If the argument is strictly whether evolution is a valid scientific theory, there's no way whatsoever for the other side to win that. I seriously it happened, but even if it did, it's not terribly impressive.
 
AnOminous said:
If you only have experience debating some side in an argument you actually believe, you're at a competitive disadvantage anyway.

If the argument is strictly whether evolution is a valid scientific theory, there's no way whatsoever for the other side to win that. I seriously it happened, but even if it did, it's not terribly impressive.
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Agreed, I was just pointing out that a college debate exercise is less likely to put you against a true believer than most venues.
 
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