Yzermandius19

same can be said of atheism so you can climb off your imaginary pedestal and stop looking down on the religious any time now

unlike many atheists who are blind as a bat when they do the same

religion is a good bit

Golden Calf worship false idolatry if you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything even a Raven

yes it does something has to fill the void of nothing no matter how much atheists believe they are above human nature, it is not so

the religious impulse is part of that nature just as reason is pretending to be above the former is a denial of human nature

there were far more books than that the Romans picked and choose the one's they found most acceptable and that is the bible you know today the compiled works that got passed the Roman censors a lot was edited out

If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything the void is inevitably filled, often by the brutal ideologies you mention far worse than religions you bash those who think they are above the impulse entirely deny their human nature, leaving them blind to this fact

some deserve more credit than others all religions are not the same many of the older religions were barbaric by comparison to some of the newer ones the Pagans were not as moral as their monotheistic counterparts, for instance

exactly humans being humans without restraint from a greater power of some kind results in a Hobbesian state of nature like Lord of the Flies not a Rousseauean state of nature, where the world is a utopia without any such restraints Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong the historical record is quite clear about that

you know you are deeply bigoted against religion when you refuse to give them credit they clearly deserve and try and steal that credit for your own belief system instead that is a level of partisan hackery that is neither sane nor rational, and a clear example of zealotry

the point is you refuse to give credit to religion for helping to improve human morality throughout history so you can pretend like if those religions never came along, humanity would be just as decent today as it is now so you can pretend like the improvements they clearly made haven't influenced your own moral code deeply so you can give that credit to your atheist beliefs instead

except before those religions came along, people didn't behave that way the religions spread the way they did, because they were an upgrade on other religions God did make a difference, the historical record is clear

so? many religious people don't either and there is nothing wrong with going to church

they really do making science your God is no more rational than making God your God

you are just wrong atheists have the same religious impulse as everyone else, they are just in denial about it applying that impulse to an idol or idols other than God, like science for example, doesn't make them any more rational than theists

it was more about the SCOTUS if Clinton had won the Supreme Court would have been 6-3 Democrat but because Trump won, it's 6-3 Republican

not all atheists are sane and rational many theists are sane and rational I disagree entirely with the assertion that atheists are more sane and rational on average than theists that is just what many atheists tell themselves because they want to have an unearned sense of intellectual and moral superiority over theists, that they do not deserve a myth pushed by atheist zealots, if ever there was one

2016 was the important election year recently every American election since then has been far less consequential as will 2022 and 2024

atheists can be zealots too and often are atheism is not a defense against extreme beliefs no need for a double standard giving atheists a pass, while only blaming the religious for extreme beliefs

the Democrats aren't going to win the mid-terms they are going to lose the house it is looking likely they are going to lose the Senate, or at least not gain many seats, if any mid-terms almost always work against the incumbent POTUS's party 2022 will be no different, regardless of the voting rules the sky is not falling, if the Democrats don't get wiped out the importance of these elections are being vastly overrated

Communism is responsible for communism and the Commies are atheists with far higher kill counts than their religious counterparts

If science and religion are so incompatible then how come so many of the best scientists are religious?

taking the best and most meaningful stories throughout history and compiling them to pass down ancient wisdom feature, not a bug

the bible is not meant to be taken entirely literally a lot of it is clearly metaphorical in some ways the metaphor is more real than the scientific explanations but in many ways the scientific explanation is more accurate than the biblical account as well