Athiests - Who cares

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Yeah I made that point earlier - I am not an atheist, I am simply atheist.
I don't meet up with fellow atheists discussing what we don't believe in and plotting the downfall of the Roman church.

I think I may just go ahead and drop that 'an' too!

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Very true but I think there is a tendency towards a certain set of social mores/views that often coincide with someone being aware another person is an Atheist (e.g the type of Atheist that tells you ), take a gander at A&A and you can see there is some very strong trends among the majority of posters that don't simply relate to lack of belief

There is definitely a subset of people who seem to enjoy telling people they are atheists. Funny thing is, they'd probably do the same if they became a Jehovah's Witness/Mormon etc.

I don't think it's the fact that they're an atheist, it's more to do with them discovering something new and wanting to tell others. The reason you see it happen a lot with atheism is that you have more people disconnecting from religion completely rather than joining new ones. So are more exposed to it.

Saying that, I'm well aware you have neckbeard, foaming at the mouth atheists who spout nonsense online. They're best ignored, like all neckbeards :pac:

kneemos wrote: »

Atheism is flawed logic as it rules out the possibility of the unexplained and as any scientist will tell you their whole life is devoted to the unexplained.

You don't understand atheism then. Atheists accept that such questions may be unexplained. Not believing someone who posits answers to such unknowns without sufficient credible evidence is not making the opposite statement that the answer HAS to be impossible. Some claims are self refuting, some claims can be dismissed as highly likely false because there is counter evidence showing that to be the most likely scenario, but it does not rule out stuff that is unexplained. Many god claims are explained via human nature and their origins coming from or evolving from earlier myths and social/political pressures too. Cargo cults being one example where their god is not unexplained just certain misunderstandings by their believers.

smash wrote: »

There's nothing to understand. Someone wrote in a book "God exists" and others blindly followed. It was words written in a book, by men who had extremely limited education, in order to control the population. Over the past few centuries, the stories written in the book have been proved to be false yet people still seem to believe. But not only do they believe, they've decided to pick and choose what they want to believe from the book. Hypocrisy in it's highest form.

OK, for you there is nothing to understand.

shruikan2553 wrote: »

And biscuits.

And the great Hawaiin pizza debate.

Saipanne wrote: »

What do you call a group who state that there is no God?

Enlightened? :pac:

keithclancy wrote: »

No, Athiest means they believe no god at all.

Not believing in a god is not the same as believing there is no god. I have no idea if some kind of god like entity exists, I just don't believe the humans that tell me they know a certain type exists and have special knowledge about what it wants when they have nothing to support their assertions but arrogance and some book that was written by someone else or group of people.

Saipanne wrote: »

What do you call a group who state that there is no God?

Wrong.

kneemos wrote: »

Wrong.

I preferred my answer :pac:

smash wrote: »

Of course there's nothing for me to understand. What is there possibly to try and understand which would lead me to a a belief in a god? Give me an example...

Not 'a god'... god.

Scientific discovery may be the discovery of aspects of 'god'....and I'm not talking beardy man in the sky stuff here.

Saipanne wrote: »

What do you call a group who state that there is no God?

Gnostic atheists. Which is rare and many would agree an illogical position.