Euphoric atheists

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Bungleboy said:
I remember having a hearty laugh at some euphoric dingus on Youtube who seriously said that religion would "die out in a free marketplace of ideas". He was also fond of using a redneck voice for his strawmen.
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This is ridiculous, of course, as we have the closest thing to a free marketplace of ideas as there has ever been in history, and it has, if anything, led to a proliferation of religions and religious ideas.

Mrs Paul said:
Or say that without religion, the world would be all sweetness and light, not realizing that many of the major wars and conflicts that have gone on in the world have not been because of religion (WWI and WWII, certainly the two greatest of the 20th century, were NOT fought over religion).
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Even the historical wars overtly "about" religion were really usually about territory and resources, just like any other wars.

Arguably, religion is a tool that can be used to manipulate people into going to war against their better interests, but that's an entirely different issue. As the 20th Century showed, secular bullshit is just as effective as religious bullshit in getting people to do that.
 
AnOminous said:
This is ridiculous, of course, as we have the closest thing to a free marketplace of ideas as there has ever been in history, and it has, if anything, led to a proliferation of religions and religious ideas.
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He also believes that gay Christians are either brainwashed or lying and he has this series of skits called "Catholic School" or something and holy shit is it not funny.

That's another thing I wanna point out, a lot of euphoric atheists are not just painfully unfunny but painfully unfunny in the same way Mallard Filmore is.
 
Bungleboy said:
He also believes that gay Christians are either brainwashed or lying and he has this series of skits called "Catholic School" or something and holy shit is it not funny.
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And how would they be brainwashed? By self-loathing because they are gay? What would that make of gay Christians that embrace their sexual orientation? As for that "Catholic School" skit, just how bad is it? So bad only euphorics like that guy himself would find it funny?

autisticdragonkin said:
I would consider socrates to be a deep thinker though
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Considering Socrates was a philosopher and all, he would be a deep thinker since his notable part of a worldview was within the realms of philosophy. In other words, there would be many things besides any belief or lack of in dieties.
 
Too Many Crooks said:
I found this today.

Fuck off already, Dawkins. Religion will still be here centuries after you and your self-righteous followers kick the bucket.

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You see, this is why I think it would be hilarious if physicists studying the earliest moments of the universe found strong evidence that an intelligent entity created the universe. Because science discovering the existence of God would really piss off the fedora tippers.
 
Thought everyone would get a good laugh seeing overly euphoric bitch JaclynGlenn get totally pwned.

Also, be warned on serching for the original video. The comments are just a floodgate of euphoria and autism.
 
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I don't think anyone's going to disagree and say that religious fundamentalists aren't total assholes. (Pat Robertson, Rick Santorum, etc) The problem is, they get most of the attention, so non-religious people assume they're the majority, when they're actually not. Most normal religious individuals hate these guys too. But they're the loudest and the most obnoxious, sadly.

Of course, the same could be said of the euphoric atheists. Most atheists I know are sane, reasonable people who hate the neckbeards. I say we stick the extremists in a room together and sell it on pay-per-view.
 
Mrs Paul said:
I don't think anyone's going to disagree and say that religious fundamentalists aren't total assholes. (Pat Robertson, Rick Santorum, etc) The problem is, they get most of the attention, so non-religious people assume they're the majority, when they're actually not. Most normal religious individuals hate these guys too. But they're the loudest and the most obnoxious, sadly.

Of course, the same could be said of the euphoric atheists. Most atheists I know are sane, reasonable people who hate the neckbeards. I say we stick the extremists in a room together and sell it on pay-per-view.
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Regardless of whether you see the explanation as human evolution or our fallen nature everyone can agree that assholes are assholes and they exist because humans are flawed rather than due to what they believe
 
Mrs Paul said:
The problem is, they get most of the attention, so non-religious people assume they're the majority, when they're actually not.
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Correct. If these were older times, where we didn't have freedom of religion, those guys would have been branded as heretics and disposed of.
 
Big Nasty said:
Correct. If these were older times, where we didn't have freedom of religion, those guys would have been branded as heretics and disposed of.
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Ah, that reminds me.

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One of the things that *really* gets on my nerves about these so-called Euphorics is that they'll go out of their way to criticize people who identify as agnostic (rather than recognising that a fair few agnostics agree with them on a lot of points) but then they'll post quotes from Einstein, Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson all of whom identified themselves as agnostic.

Now, I'm personally of the opinion that agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive - you can be an agnostic and an atheist because agnosticism is a question of knowledge while atheism is a question of belief. Even Richard Dawkins says he's a bit agnostic because he can't be 100% sure there's no God.

But you can't one minute say agnostics are wish-washy fence-sitters and then turn around and post quotes from famous agnostics saying they're your personal hero. Nice to see hypocrisy is rampant on both sides of the spiritual divide.
 
autisticdragonkin said:
I would consider socrates to be a deep thinker though
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Socrates was the original troll.

He was already in failing health, and he basically forced Athens, a society that prided itself on its love of freedom of thought, to murder him for opposing that idea. While simultaneously representing it.

Meanwhile, he knew he would become the primary symbol of freedom of thought, causing anyone who ever studied philosophy after that to have a completely unavoidable and permanent trauma.

Socrates was basically fucking God. He trolled all of humanity, forever.
 
K>C said:
Yes, that is correct. Euphorics obey atheist thinkers like some Christians do the Bible.
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It's that kind of slavish worship of "pop scientists" that makes me wish Science was still seen as a nerd thing no one cared about sometimes. I mean I don't hate said scientists (except maybe Neil De-whatever, black science man he kinda rubs me the wrong way for whatever reason), but I don't get why we can't just appreciate science and scientists as opposed to treating them like their infallible, walking gods who know everything.

I mean these fucking people go one about how much they love science but don't even understand the fucking basic scientific method (and how scientists are constantly being proven wrong by it), AKA that thing you learn in middle school.
 
Reddit Avenger said:
It's that kind of slavish worship of "pop scientists" that makes me wish Science was still seen as a nerd thing no one cared about sometimes. I mean I don't hate said scientists (except maybe Neil De-whatever, black science man he kinda rubs me the wrong way for whatever reason), but I don't get why we can't just appreciate science and scientists as opposed to treating them like their infallible, walking gods who know everything.

I mean these fucking people go one about how much they love science but don't even understand the fucking basic scientific method (and how scientists are constantly being proven wrong by it), AKA that thing you learn in middle school.
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That's because they only care about being right about everything, which is caused by their insecurity, paranoia, and massive inferiority complex.
 
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