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Is Coronavirus good for the Atheist movement? [Spirituality & Religion]

People have lost their jobs, are forced into quarantine and generally, there is a foreboding morbid atmosphere and an ominous sense of futility and impending doom.

Does this mean that more people are probably going to get into Atheism now they've been forced to have a little taste of it?
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BlueVeins · 22-25
I doubt it, very few people were unaware that horrible things happen to begin with, and this is far from the height of awfulness in human life. If you didn't abandon religion when you learned about the Holocaust, you probably won't abandon it from COVID-19.
Carazaa · F
@BlueVeins
God begged the Jews to not abandon him! He warned them that if you are disobedient and go after other Gods I will scatter you into the world and they will hate you! Please please don’t worship other gods! This is one of the most important evidence of Gods word being true! Deut 28 and many many verses in the Old Testament and the new!
Speedyman · 70-79, M
I thought the holocaust was caused by men disobeying the very laws that God had given them. Just as Covid was caused by men disobeying the laws of nature. Amazing how irrational people like you blame God for the consequences of disobeying his laws @BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman God's law enforcement must suck total ass if people can just flagrantly disobey it for years on end like that and kill millions of people in broad daylight.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
God killing peopke? Where? @BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman re-read, didn't say that
Speedyman · 70-79, M
So you would have God deny mankind free will?@BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman Giving people the freedom to take away other people's freedom really isn't a free will type of situation at all, is it? If there's one thing the US got right, it's that the rights of one man to swing his arms end at the next man's nose.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
So a God needs to take away your free will and rule you himself? @BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman No, a decent God needs to protect the victim of a crime's freedom from the whims of a perpetrator. That's not really freedom being taken away, just being distributed in a vaguely efficient and equitable way.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
So you blame a God you don’t believe in? That is typical logic of an atheist. No personal responsibility at all@BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman No, I'm saying that if there were a god capable of preventing the kind of bullshit I was talking about, it'd be partially culpable for extreme evil for choosing not to. And actually, since I'm denying the existence of that god, that removes that outside culpability making people [i]more[/i] responsible for their bullshit rather than less.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
You do realise you are completely self contradicting yourself. You are really just confirming what the Bible says about human nature that refuses to obey the very commands that God has given it for keeping it in Hilda. And you are actually saying as Nietzsche did that the world without the Christian God is the world without morality. So it is typical of an atheist like you to abandon God and then blame him for the lack of morality around you without actually thinking of the logic of the situation@BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman Nothing contradictory about it, and duh the writers of the Bible would know that not everyone would agree with their edicts; those people existed at the time. Anyway, I don't know what Nietzsche said on the subject, but I kinda thing morality is more of a human concept based on empathy.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
So you would have empathy with Hitler’s gas chambers if you lived in his time?@BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman Empathy for an inanimate object? I reckon I'd have empathy for the victims more than anyone else. I mean, that's who I empathize with now.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
How do you know?@BlueVeins
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Speedyman Well, the people who most resemble the victims of the holocaust are the people who I empathize the most with as it stands. People like the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Saudi apostates, and the poor folks of Tibet. So really, it's the only rational conclusion.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
Not rational at all because there is no rationality to atheism. You are just day accident of nature and a bunch of chemicals so how do you know that your own feelings and rationality are rational after all? How do you know that your morals are the right morals as you have nothing to test your morals by?@BlueVeins