Holy Shit! Atheists in the US know more about religion than believers do???

[ELVIS]

And then have to explain to the 30 000 000 other possible people when your dad fired his muck into your mother how you made the best of the opportunity.

Ok, let's hear it...

Go!

[bueno bob]

I don't know. On a personal level, I don't really "get" atheists any more than I do the wholly religious. Realistically, it's equally as stupid to believe that science has answered "everything" and proven that there is no afterlife or higher intelligence as it is to believe that all of the answers to the universe are wrapped up in some 2000 year old collection of fan fiction about one of numerous competing magicians.

Agnosticism is really the only intelligent, educated choice to make. That way you have room to err on both sides. Anybody telling you otherwise, and then CONVINCING you otherwise, is feeding your head full of shit and you're obviously stupid enough to let them, which makes you an extemely disinteresting person and a less than sensible human being.

Were I God, I'd want very little to do with either the extremely religious or the complete disbeliever. What boring people they are.

[Warham]

Doesn't surprise me in the least. Many athiests are searching for the truth and are willing to research a variety of religions in that pursuit. It gives them a good base of knowledge. On the other hand, many are too smart for their own good, which leads them to becoming more and more closeminded to future revelations.

[Seshmeister]

Ok, let's hear it...

Go!

The fact I can't is exactly my point.

[Seshmeister]

I don't know. On a personal level, I don't really "get" atheists any more than I do the wholly religious. Realistically, it's equally as stupid to believe that science has answered "everything" and proven that there is no afterlife or higher intelligence as it is to believe that all of the answers to the universe are wrapped up in some 2000 year old collection of fan fiction about one of numerous competing magicians.

Agnosticism is really the only intelligent, educated choice to make. That way you have room to err on both sides. Anybody telling you otherwise, and then CONVINCING you otherwise, is feeding your head full of shit and you're obviously stupid enough to let them, which makes you an extemely disinteresting person and a less than sensible human being.

Were I God, I'd want very little to do with either the extremely religious or the complete disbeliever. What boring people they are.

Don't be part of the religious backlash backlash.

Even Dawkins describes himself as an agnostic.

For most people who are called athiest it's just a shorthand to say you don't believe in the popular institutional superstitions. The whole point of the scientific method is that you don't completely discount something you can't disprove and you can't disprove an indetectable invisible magic cloud daddy.

[ashstralia]

The whole point of the scientific method

mate, that would be measurability and repetition of the result.
i think the scientific community shoots itself in the foot sometimes, too.
e.g. string theory. they don't call it string fact. and no-ones written 'the string delusion'.

[Nitro Express]

29/32
joseph smith... dum dum dum dum dum. i can never unsee that south park ep

Yeah. South Park made fun of the Kinderhook plate incident. You can also look up the Book of Abraham screwup. Joseph mistranslated the Egyptian book of the dead and mistook the Anubis for Abraham and Isaac for the mummy on the enbalming bench. Old Joe thought the enbalming scene on the papyrus he bought with some mummies in Chicago was a sacrificial scene. Most of the key Mormon doctrine is based on his mistranslated butchery of a standard, common Egyptian funeral text. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

[Seshmeister]

mate, that would be measurability and repetition of the result.
i think the scientific community shoots itself in the foot sometimes, too.
e.g. string theory. they don't call it string fact. and no-ones written 'the string delusion'.

Who says string theory isn't just a thought?

Quantum physics is used to make your cell phone work.

We're still waiting for the Jesus phone...

[kwame k]

Who says string theory isn't just a thought?

Quantum physics is used to make your cell phone work.

We're still waiting for the Jesus phone...

Nope......there's already a.....

jesus phone

A nickname for Apple's iPhone, so called because of the nearly religious fervor the phone has caused and the cult status it enjoys. Since it was dubbed the "Jesus phone" early on, articles about the phone occasionally include religious overtones such as "your prayers are answered, the Jesus phone is here" and the "second coming" referring to the second generation iPhone 3G. There is even a blog called iPhoneSavior.com, "The Cult of iPhone News and Satire."

Link

[ELVIS]

I don't believe in the popular institutional superstitions...

[kwame k]

You don't believe in organized religion, dude?

[Satan]

I don't believe in the popular institutional superstitions...

Aren't you a Biblical literalist?

[ELVIS]

You don't believe in organized religion, dude?

organized how ??

[ELVIS]

Aren't you a Biblical literalist?

No...

For instance, I don't subscribe to the popular belief among some that the earth is 6000 years old...

That's beyond rediculous...

[kwame k]

organized how ??

Protestant, Catholic and etc!