Posted on 08/17/2013 8:29:34 AM PDT by Vanders9
Thanks to a couple of surveys, it’s being put about in certain circles that atheists have higher IQs than believers. That may or may not be the case, but one problem with this argument is that, if you accept "average group differences in IQ”, you get into all sorts of sinister debates which bien pensant atheist Lefties might find less to their liking.
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Your analogies are irrelevant without an accepted definition of God.
Evidence really isn’t a function of a belief system. The evidence that the earth is not flat is wholly independent of the belief systems of those who may continue to argue the opposite.
There’s no evidence that unicorns exist, hence my “un-belief” in unicorns. There’s nothing religious about that position. There’s nothing religious about my atheism.
Do you have an accepted definition of everything you don’t believe in?
Here is a tricky question.Would anyone believe in God if going to heaven was not in the equasion? If there is no heaven or hell, what would it matter? When some one can actually tell me where either one of these places exist I might change my mind.
Neither belief nor disbelief are conditional.
Then how do you judge the veracity of what people tell you?
To judge, one must have unconditional beliefs; otherwise, the judgement is arbitrary.
So when someone tells you something, you merely believe it or not unconditionally. You don’t weigh up the evidence, your prior knowledge, the known interests and truthfulness of the person?
Given the implication of your question, what’s the point of weighing evidence without belief?
What you accept as fact is nothing more than belief. You believe that to be true, no?
So you do apply conditions, it’s just that you think those conditions are facets of your belief system.
All sentient humans have a religious worldview.
All sentient humans must chose a God-centered, godless, or agnostic worldview. It is impossible to prove the existence or non-existence of God, therefore all three worldviews ( godless, agnostic, and God-centered) require faith. None of these states of belief are neutral in content or consequences for the individual or for the culture in which they live.
So.....My pet topic is education. It is also **impossible** to run a religiously neutral school. **NO** school is religiously neutral in its worldview or in its curriculum content or consequences for the child or the culture. For this reason ALL government schooling should be abolished and all education delivered privately.
Sure, but what I think is not relevant as far as the conditions you believe I believe.
G’night :)
then we agree on at least one shared ‘truth’!
Sleep well.
Does a new born baby believe in God? What is a baby’s religion?
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I suspect that you are not asking this question in a spirit of goodwill.
I have also noticed that atheists here on Free Republic are among the biggest defenders of our nation’s system of police enforced godless government K-12 indoctrination.
No religion is devoid of rabid believers who visit misery on those who are not as rabid as they are.
“Does a new born baby believe in God? What is a baby’s religion?”
No, because it is unable to grasp the concept of it’s place in the universe.
It has no language to define what surrounds it.
It has no memory because it cannot define what it experiences in terms of language.
It seemly eats sleeps and poops like an animal.
Years ago an atheist raised a child without teaching it about God and shutting it off from any influences that might teach it about God.
The Child created by itself the concept of an omnipresent deity that created all things in the universe to explain the world it lived in.
Depending on your point of view this is proof that either God exists or atheists are right about man....
yes, meaning atheists and unicorn non-believers are seriously ill? I guess that answers this thread.
enjoy your ignorance.
and enjoy your unicorns
LOL I’m not the one that believes in them.
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