OT 4 More Things Atheists Should Stop Saying

So then how was I lying when I said he didn't say anything that was false? And he supports his "opinion" with a little thing called "evidence." You should try it some time. 

It is interesting though that people who believe in God generally do not believe in the above (with, in some circles, the exception of the last you listed). God belief seems to have a different characteristic to those other beliefs. That's not to say it's more likely to be true than those beliefs. Indeed, I have seen some reasonably compelling arguments that we're more likely to be living in the matrix than not. But there is something about it that makes people cling to it much more strongly than other examples of supposed wishful thinking.

Opinions aren’t objective truth.

The guy is an arsehole who smears billions of innocent people.

Considering that there are quite a few people who believe the last one, it might be useful to consider what it has in common with the God belief. I think it's that people often develop very profound, personal attachments to religion and politics (both falling under the category of ideology) and those beliefs become far more important to them than truth and reason; although very few people would consciously admit this, so instead of saying the belief is more important than truth or reason, they just assume they're truthful and reasonable.

Religion probably happens most because of early indoctrination; many kids are told from a very early age that believing in God is the most important thing in the world, and this often accompanies threats about eternal damnation if they don't, not to mention moral and social condemnation if they don't. Politics usually doesn't get to kids as early, but many people base a huge chunk of their identity around their politics, often putting a kind of exuberant faith in certain figures/parties that's very similar to religious faith. 

It may just be a point in general that on any subject where passions run deep people often prioritize their beliefs (and all the feelings surrounding those beliefs) over truth and rationality. The reason most of those other instances aren't common (besides the Trump one) is simply because there's no real social mechanism for imbuing those beliefs with the same level of profundity. They don't scratch the same psychological itch for people desperate to belong to a group or cause and then have that in-group/out-group "war" dynamic that some people seem to crave. Another good example that I just thought of, though it's rarer still than the religion/Trump one, is sports. Some people become so passionate about their sports teams that they can't tolerate any criticism of them and will make all kinds of excuses when things don't go their way. 

I guess she did enough that she got banned from posting there and has decided to bring the crazy here.

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Emo, this is another frigging lie. It’s all you do.

Read my signature.

I wasn’t banned from the Politics board.

I am 95% on Twitter now. I drop by here at times because it isn’t Politics.

You are addicted to lying.

I said "I guess," not "it happened." If I'm wrong I'll gladly admit it. If I guess and I'm wrong that doesn't make me a liar. A guess is an acknowledgement someone doesn't know for sure. 

Some people study religion to the ends of the Earth and wax poetic about it because they want to destroy it.

These are the thoughts and lives of billions and billions of people who don’t know they exist.

It’s like having stalkers from thousands of miles away who judge you without ever knowing you.

No one is supposed to fight back against this.

Very strange stuff.

Can anyone here makes heads or tails of what this is supposed to mean? Very strange stuff, indeed. 

Emo can write long, long posts about why he thinks people care about the religions he wants to destroy.

Creepy.