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I call myself an atheist simply because I believe no God exists, but I am at large, regarding many questions, very undecided.
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Me reading philosopher A: âyeah this makes total senseâ
Me reading philosopher B absolutely ripping A to shreds: âwow I canât believe A is such an idiotâ
Me reading A again: âyeah this makes total senseâ.
But I wonât lose.
Let me explain.
I canât force myself to believe something is true if I already believe itâs false. If God exists, I donât think such a person would appreciate dishonesty.
If God finds it fitting to punish a person who cannot find it in their mind or heart to believe in them then.. yeah, I guess I will lose. But what kind of God is that in the first place? Not the God I am constantly told is perfectly loving and moral.
Please, I beg of you, stop spreading this nonsense about my country, we are NOT 80% atheists.
44% of the population identifies as Christians, which immediately destroys the 80% number. Then we have to account for other religions, and those that believe in God outside religion.
The number of self proclaimed atheists in Sweden come out to ~20%. You can *maybe* stretch this to 50% if you include all of those who donât believe in a God but then you have to equivocate between atheist and agnostic. And many of those who donât believe are spiritual.
I was just informed that my mother have been diagnosed with a tumor in her neck. We don't know if its malignant or not yet. And no metastases have been found in her body. So the odds are in our favor. But I'm going to log off for some time. Need to spend time with her.
We can directly observe evolution every single day.
What I assume you are actually referring to is common descent, a consequence of evolution.
And while we canât directly observe common descent stretching back millions of years, we can directly observe speciation.
Personally, I think @RandalRauser has offered a more compelling, morally grounded vision of Christianity than just about anyone else working in this space.
You are likely more related to a North African person than either of you are to a sub-Saharan person.
There is more genetic diversity within Africa than there is between Africans and almost any other ethnicity in the world.
Racism is for the weak.
Racists donât have a single leg to stand on.
Itâs unscientific.
Itâs uncivilized.
Itâs immoral.
And EVEN IF dark skinned people were somehow significantly different, so what?
Of course Jesus is real, if by that we mean that a human named Jesus lived and died about 2000 years ago.
Jesus mythicism is an embarrassment and it makes us atheists look incredibly silly.
You canât claim to be ârational and evidence guidedâ if you cling to Jesus mythicism.
Hi Archie.
You received a lot of snarky comments in response to, what I hope, is a genuine question regarding science. Here is the evidence in regards to the big bang theory, but first some history and clarifications.
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