Theists in severe decline.

Musika said:
At a certain point you have to start talking in terms of something greater than caricatures of religion or the philosophy (if you can call it that) peddled by jehovah's witnesses.
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I know I should study more culture religion history philosophy I do agree there are many levels.
Enjoy your day.
Alex
 
Xelasnave.1947 said:
Never the less I think religion holds things together for many and I for one should not focus on the negatives as all organisations will have their problems and really what can you do to curb the desire of any group to expand its base.

Preach peace and harmony and positive virtues but dont expect to have others accept your world view and all will be fine.

I wonder ....
Atheists dont believe any one has established a God and probably think wider than say a believer who knows there is only one God...theirs...so all the others never get thought of...but I guess to a degree to an atheist they just have one more on the list that they dont accept.

So Jan possibly will reject Thor and the rest of them as say I would but stops at that approach when he goes to analyse his God.

Thats what people do...they have their reasons.

So theists could be 99.9 % atheist when you think of the large number of Gods they dont beleive in.

Anyways Jan and Musica seem like nice people so perhaps we should all look for things we agree on...could that be so difficult☺
Alex
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Jan believes in Thor.

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Michael 345 said:
The above refers to those for some reason class atheists as belonging to a religion
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The problem with that is the lumping of atheists - some are religious, some are not, and a wide variety of religions are involved.
It's a category mistake, in other words - even theism, far more specific, is not a religion. Atheism is nowhere near. The entire issue is just more bs from overt Abrahamic theists searching for political leverage, afaik.

But that does not render the many and various atheistic religions nonexistent.
 
Musika said:
You're the only one advocating God is a tyrant. Assuming what you post here bears some relationship to your opinions, it seems to play a role in supporting your atheism.
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I do not assume anything you post is related to your opinion. If you have an opinion.

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iceaura said:
lumping of atheists - some are religious, some are not,
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If a atheist is religious ---- remember in this debate religious = belief in god, quasi religious no gods ---- so I will accept atheist who go with any quasi religious aspects

Atheists who are religious -- not compute Will Robinson Error Error Reboot required

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Michael 345 said:
remember in this debate religious = belief in god,
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That is simply a denial of reality - nothing but confusion will follow. There are and have been hundreds of millions of areligious theists and religious atheists, both. These are normal, standard, common categories of ways to live as a human being.
Michael 345 said:
Atheists who are religious -- not compute Will Robinson Error Error Reboot required
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I named a few of the standard atheistic religions and atheistic kinds of religions - the animisms, etc. There are online resources for specific ones such as the Navajo tribal religion, and of course the atheistic Buddhist and Taoist traditions are well known and easily researched.
 
spidergoat said:
The Biblical God isn't a tyrant? That's easier to prove than his existence.
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Well, but keep in mind that most Christians cherry pick the Bible VERRRY carefully. First they throw out the Old Testament. Then they throw out parts of the New Testament because they're not "indicative" or something of God. The parts they are left with can be used to demonstrate God is . . . well, whatever they want him to be.
 
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