Posted on 01/18/2009 8:59:21 PM PST by Marechal
Billions of people attend millions of churches around the world to worship God.
Yet the God they worship is completely imaginary. Their belief represents a delusion.
It is easy to prove that God is imaginary. Start at the beginning with Proof #1, or try these five all-time favorites:
Analyse prayer Imagine heaven Notice your church Understand delusion Think about science
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Lots of logical fallacy.
Some rehashed anti-Catholicism (see the section on "Communion")
Lots of uninformed and erroneous prooftexting.
All of his arguments have been anticipated and explained, and/or debunked elsewhere over the course of the last two thousand years. There is nothing new under the sun.
I wish we had recordings of the two of them discussing the origins of the universe.
The atheists simply don’t believe in God, but will “live and let live.”
The antitheists are almost comical in their pure hatred of God and are determined to remove all traces of God from the public view under the guise of “fairness” and “tolerance.”
Oh... one other thing. Were I a betting man, I would bet that the creator(s) of this site is a Preacher’s Kid, or otherwise someone who was (at least emotionally) fervently Christian then fell away from the faith.
An anti-theist holds a desire for there not to be a God. Although probably rare, you could logically be an anti-theist who is actually a believer.
Thanks for your compliment, chrisser. Not that it did the poster any good. I don’t normally make much sense at 4 am.
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I apologize, I forgot that it was improper to ping someone who was asked to leave the thread.
Looks like in about 100 years or so the author of this article is going to be imaginary.
That quote by the pope pretty much sums up one of the main reasons I am so glad I came back to the Catholic Church.
You didn’t read this, did you? I only got through about half of them, and I recall seeing mentions of Hitler and Islam.
Putting up a web site is blood lust? It doesn't compare with what people driven by religion have done just in the last century.
Even if we posit the existence of both, how does that knowledge even begin to help any person figure out which of the tens of thousands of religions purporting to explain those existences are true, or if any of them are?
...allows for a feeling of community among different people around the world...
So do beliefs in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy.
...establishes a common set of cultural values...
So does Hollyweird and whatever dreck is on TV.
...provides people with a sense of hope.
Well, we all know who bandied about the word "Hope" to deceive millions of people both in the US and abroad, don't we??!!
Your point would make sense...if we didn't have other tangible proof that parents exist.
Every religious tradition, and practically every subdivision of belief structure within those traditions, has websites that explain their position. They exist on the chance that someone seeking the words within them will consider them.
Why should atheists be any different? Why shouldn't those seeking an alternative to belief in a supernatural being be able to examine the arguments in support of that position?
If we measure the number of websites devoted to religious beliefs, and compare them to the number of websites espousing disbelief, perhaps we can make a better judgment of which side is "obsessed".
I can not pass on coming traffic without some faith that the other driver is not feeling suicidal.
Perhaps you are confusing religious faith with trust. I can observe in my pre-driving-age years, that the vast majority of traffic situations involve people who are not suicidal, and who will do the right thing and stay on their side of the road. If I lived in a society where most of my fellow drivers were raging drunk, and no authority were effectively intervening to prevent this from happening, I might conclude that the roads were not a good place to be. I can make a decision (rational or not) to trust depending on my observations of what actually happens in a given space of time.
Religion does not pass this observational test. Actually, it fails quite spectacularly, since bad things happen to religious people all the time.
Having faith requires study of ones faith. Especially Christianity. This is not obsession.
Atheists don’t believe in God. But they organize like a religion. They concentrate on other people’s faith as if they’re threatened somewhow by that faith. Why?
What’s the point of a website that has to reinforce a belief that God is imaginary? Sounds like some people need to convince themselves and organize together their beliefs. And they have to have faith that God is imaginary.
I have faith that He’s real.
Atheism is just a religion of the Godless, obsessed with attacking other religions in the belief that they are the superior thinkers.
For what it’s worth, I actually think gpk9 helped this thread. I really enjoyed reading the well thought out responses to his initial post. There was alot of wisdom in those responses that wouldn’t have made its way to this thread without gpk9’s input.
Not necessarily. Examine this from Proof #17 from the site:
"Imagine that we have a conversation one day and I say to you, "I believe in the gerflagenflopple. You cannot prove that the gerflagenflopple does not exist, therefore it exists." You can see that this is ridiculous. Just because I have invented something out of thin air does not mean that its non-existence is suddenly unprovable. There has to be some evidence that the gerflagenflopple exists in order to assert its existence. Since there is not, it is quite easy to say that the gerflagenflopple is imaginary."
What this site tries to do is to disprove the things that religious people use to assert that there is a supreme being. Those things are tangible enough to be able to analyze.
While it is true that either God's or a gerflangenflopple's existence cannot be completely disproved, we can certainly look at the reasons, if any, that someone would believe in the existence of either.
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