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KLA2 wrote:... and threaten everyone who does not do so with hellfire.
1. Atheists can make moral decisions based on the specific context.
2. Atheists can experience healthy outrage at the outrageous without fear of questioning God's plan.
3. Atheist can be friends with everyone without having the thought in the back of their mind that this person's lifestyle may be evil.
5. Atheists do not live with the fear of hell.
7. Atheists raise freethinking children; let them pick a religion, or none.
KLA2 wrote:Unfortunately, I find many religionists have utterly closed minds.
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:it seems to me that if you believe religion X, you ought to do so because you see some evidence that the beliefs that characterize religion X are true. This idea of choosing what to believe based on the advantages or disadvantages of your choice, not based on whether you think it is true or not, seems a bit odd to me.
Lance wrote:It's working for me now. Must have been an RBE*
(*Random Bizarre Event)
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:I've always had a strange feeling about the way people choose their religions. Perhaps I am naive, but I thought that when you were a member of religion X, that meant that you hold the beliefs that characterize that religion.
As such, it seems to me that if you believe religion X, you ought to do so because you see some evidence that the beliefs that characterize religion X are true. This idea of choosing what to believe based on the advantages or disadvantages of your choice, not based on whether you think it is true or not, seems a bit odd to me.
But many things people do seem odd to me. Probably some of the things I do seem odd to them...
KLA2 wrote:This was a two minute narrative, not a detailed book. I think we can reasonably assume that the author was not referring to homicidal maniacs, people filled with irrational hate and violence, wife beaters or child molesters, etc.
I assumed he was talking about folks who engage in harmless sexual practices with consenting adults, wear different hats, wear their hair long/short out of step with fashion, are of different races/cultures/colour, read books instead of watching TV, etc. (Some of which the graphic implied.) :wink:
MM_Dandy wrote:A fundamental assumption of Christainity, for instance, is that everyone is sinful.
Lance wrote:You mean, when we ment for lunch at Z'Kota Grill that time, you thought I was a sinner?
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