God gets a lot of attention nowadays.
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You mean when the majority of humanity gets thrown into a burning pit of fire and all of the Christians get to have a blast for eternity what with the apple cider parties and scrabble tournaments? hurraaaaaaaaaaay........................ Jesus is coming (he says without enthusiasm) Side: Yes He does
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I think as more and more Americans are beginning to feel that religious institutions are antiquated, they are looking for venues to express those feelings in a society where atheism is very much taboo, and so those same people turn to the anonymity of the Internet. If the non-religious all organized it would be a hugely powerful voting block, but many are afraid of the backlash or are simply apathetic. The result is that only the zealously atheistic are heard, which brings a lot of negative PR on all of the irreligious. It seems you can't even become president without explicitly stating your christian faith in this country. Side: Yes He does
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I think that in America, the non-believers have been more apathetic in the past. And now that they are coming out and voicing their opinions, people tend to see them as vitriolic, strident or disrespectful. However, if we were to play the blame game, the non-religious can also call the religious vitriolic, strident and disrespectful, especially when you have Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on your door every other day. But, if we were to point fingers, (1) it provides no solution to this great philosophical and scientific problem/question of God and (2) we are only exacerbating intolerance. I think the key to this is that people need to recognise that atheistic or atheological speech is not hate speech and it is an expression of freedom of religion as well. Conversely, non-religious people should not cross the line and engage in petty personal attacks against the religious. Side: Yes He does
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The likes of Hitchens and Dawkins are brilliant thinkers, orators, and skeptics. But the way they go about is not the way forward. It is why the common atheist is so poorly mislabeled, they think that we're all going to launch some ethnic cleansing, when all we want is voices heard in every society. I'm glad I live in a country where religion has little to no influence. I feel sorry for every atheist in America though... Side: Yes He does
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What is God? A super-thingie of nebulous ambiguity? A one size fits all security blanket for the ignorant and superstitious? Ask 20 ppl what God is and you get twenty different answers. Ask where god is and you get the same. God is and does whatever anyone says, whatever anyone chooses to believe. God is the hero of western revenge fantasy. An elaborate contradiction guilded in emotional appeals. God's truth is not to be found beyond death. That would require a functioning brain. God is just a sugarcube. Side: No He doesn't
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What is God In the classical monotheistic sense, God is the supernatural, personal creator of everything, who is omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipresent. A super-thingie of nebulous ambiguity Meh, sure, why not? A one size fits all security blanket for the ignorant and superstitious? See above. ask 20 ppl what God is and you get twenty different answers. Doubt it. Ask 20 theists and you'll get pretty much the same answer. Ask 20 atheists and you'll get pretty much the same answer. And so on. God is the hero of western revenge fantasy. God is not western. God is an iron age Palestinian. God is just a sugarcube. ._. You've stumped me. Side: Yes He does
all ppl of a particular church do not have the same idea of god. all ppl of a denomination dont have the same idea of god. nor do all ppl of a city or culture or era. what a dictionary describes as 'god in a monotheistic sense' is perfectly irrelevant. Obviously I am referring to opinions, not standardized definitions. you shouldve gotten that from "ask 20 different ppl and you get twenty different answers'. we are not machines, we are human beings, with different views , different philosophies and different concepts of our personal gods. why do i even have to say this? God as the hero of western revenge fantasy is just one of god's many guises. you shouldnt get the idea that god is one thing specifically defined because ancient and contemporary world culture, myth and superstition shows that god/ gods are not, and all of this goes without saying. yea it does get lonely around here. Side: No He doesn't
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