• Deacon@lemmy.world
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      Funnily early Christians had to defend themselves from accusations of atheism from their Pagan contemporaries because they only believed in the 1(3) God(s).

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      I don’t see Sam Harris growing out of his face, but Christopher Hitchens is already a bad look.

      Dude probably vapes like a fucking chimney

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        Honestly, the debate as to whether god exists or not is intellectual masturbation, which is either of no consequence, or a mortal sin that will see you burn in a lake of fire, or neither or both of those things, or nothing at all, or everything. Quite simple really

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    I’m currently reading Lawrence Krauss’ book “A Universe from Nothing”, and in between the excellent descriptions of our ideas about the big bang and the evolution of the universe he’s constantly sneering and lashing out against religion for absolutely no reason. There’s no relevance for these outbursts at all, but there are 16 pages of preface raging against the idea that some people believe that the word “nothing” means “absolute nothingness” instead of “space” (which is truly an active thing) plus a whole Orwellian doublespeak chapter about how nothing is actually something.

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    I am as atheist as it’s possible to be. I’ve never been even slightly religious and there’s no part of me that even vaguely believes in anything religious, supernatural, or superstitious.

    I read The God Delusion and I found it extremely weak and unconvincing

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    “I have so many other people’s ideas I can’t even think for myself anymore!”

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    At least he cares about belief enough to “debate” it, even if he doesn’t understand it. I think many “hardcore atheists” are just Western Trinitarians who, at least for a while, wished religion/so-called religious folk had substance but then they see megachurches and politicians saying “God Bless America” before bombing and raping the global South and they’re utterly disappointed.