OT 4 More Things Atheists Should Stop Saying

I can't speak for others but I have no faith at all in how and when I will die, although there are scenarios I would certainly prefer. Dying itself is not a matter of faith.



I am not sure since it sounds confused. For one thing, you seem to be confusing 'faith' with 'belief'.



This ignores the fact that faith in the workings of the natural world is not the same as faith in the supernatural when one considers evidence and the most reasonable understanding of the way things will be. Which is why I distinguish between faith and belief.[/quote]

In a two way street, traffic flows both ways.

One is also not sure of what 'garbage' you mean. Post-modernism? De constructionism? Creationism? These are only concepts, right?

Giving them a balanced view of science, politics and sociology, though is.

No, I am just pointing out your somewhat repetitive and (given your 'live and let live' philosophy) contradictory posting history. I would only complain if you blatantly break the rules of this forum, and only then if it was sufficient egregious.

I’m asking people to leave billions of innocents alone.

It’s something you guys can never do.

Yeah. Stop brainwashing children.

Sorry, my child-brainwashing day is on a Friday.

See, here's the problem we're having: you don't have the first clue about (ir)rationality and logic. All you know is that they're bad things, and since you don't want to think anything bad about your beliefs, you're denying that they're irrational/illogical. What's funny is that you literally defined what you're doing as illogical when you said "Your desire to believe God exists as a reason for being happy, has nothing to do with whether or not God exists" (IMDB2.freeforums.net/post/4521946/thread). Irrationality and logical fallacies are literally defined as methods of thought that lead to beliefs that have nothing to do with the truth of that belief. So you already admitted to being irrational, to believing in God based on a logical fallacy, but because you don't know what either of those things mean, you're still denying it. It's like someone saying "oh sure, I stabbed the guy until he died just because he laughed at me, but I didn't MURDER him!" 

The fact that you refuse to read those links (even one) says all anyone needs to know about your lack of intellectual integrity/honesty, and at this point you're just trying to project your own ignorance on to me, pretending that I'm the one that doesn't understand something, despite not having said a single thing that you can show I didn't understand. Pretty much your (and SciFive's) entire schtick is a display of various psychological defense mechanisms to protect your ignorance. 

How about this, I'll give you one more chance to recognize what you refuse to recognize. What if I start a poll on the Politics forum and phrase the question like this: "Is it irrational to believe things only because you want them to be true?" with the options "no, that's a logical fallacy" or "yes, that's perfectly rational" and see what they respond. Not that I have tremendous confidence in what people over there know about logic/rationality either, but this is so basic I have to be optimistic enough to think most recognize that such a thing is blatantly irrational. 

See, here's the problem we're having: you don't have the first clue about (ir)rationality and logic.

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I have a Bachelors degree in Mathematical Logic, arsehole.

You try to fck with people’s heads. Going after billions and billions of people who dare to disagree with you is like a dog chasing a Lamborghini.