What's the difference?
Aside from the obvious alleged absence of gods, what is the difference between atheism and theistic religions?
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
AkioTsukino · M
@hippyjoe1955 That sounds like theism to me, Joe.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@AkioTsukino Theism can be defended using logic and observation. Atheism can do neither. Atheism requires blind faith in inadequate sources. Theism has observable truth IF the observer chooses to be honest.
SatyrService · M
@hippyjoe1955 name one time that was so
and no,Stalin was not an atheit, he would also have used the church had he thought it was expedian
I can name thousands where it was the religious doing the extermination
and no,Stalin was not an atheit, he would also have used the church had he thought it was expedian
I can name thousands where it was the religious doing the extermination
AkioTsukino · M
@hippyjoe1955 They almost never choose to be honest.
AkioTsukino · M
@hippyjoe1955 Your vague and insubstantial claims are biased. You'll have to do more than preach to the choir if you want to impress me. You should know that. But you don't care. Because you are only biased and preaching to the choir. You see?
ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 46-50, M
@AkioTsukino Joe's confusion is understandable. Nearly all arguments atheists make can be turned back upon themselves. This was just one rare exception
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@AkioTsukino Observable reality indicates a Designer not an accident. You want to believe there was once a cosmic accident that resulted in all we see and know. I know there was a beyond cosmic Designer based purely on the utra complex form and function of even the most basic life forms. As the atheist Fred Hoyle noted it is like someone tampered with the universal constants to get everything just right in order to have a place such is earth sustain life. Bio chemists and biologists all over the world are now doubting as Darwin did the entire theory that life could ever have formed without a designer. Even the sudden and unexpected leaps in the fossil records where suddenly for no reason life forms became more abundant and much more complex. Completely not what is expected should life be the result of endless mutation falling very fortuitously ever upward in complexity of form and function. Here is a riddle posed by John Lennox. You use a computer. If you knew or even thought that it was the result of a bunch of random parts that fell into form and function by accident would you trust it to do calculations? Probably not yet you trust your brain to be fully functional despite it being just a jumble of parts jammed together by accident.