I never said they are idiots, I said that their beliefs are idiotic. Not the same thing.
It's a great tragedy that in the 21st century, with all the knowledge in the world easily available to us, there are still intelligent people who have idiotic beliefs.
I think most religious people secretly know that their beliefs are a bit nonsensical, but they've had those beliefs beaten into them as children or peddled to them like McFries as adults. They're to scared to think, because "God hates questioning curiosity" and "God loves unquestioning faith"
although if you think about it, many scientific "facts" are often believed on the basis that you think someone else proved it, without actually investigating it by oneself.
Yes, but the fact is that they HAVE been proven by someone. If science isn't 100% repeatable, objective and logically sound, it would never get published. Unlike every religious text.
Ultimately we have to believe what somebody else said about 99% of the things we know. Personally, I'd rather believe someone with a PhD than someone who heard voices in his head.
They believe because they trust the reliability of previous PhDs.
If you want to follow the chain of belief backwards, science eventually gets you to someone making observations, drawing the most logical conclusion and publishing the results.
If you follow religion's chain of belief backwards, you eventually get to someone who said "I heard God talking to me."
Is it normal To be an atheist and shy to talk about Christian beliefs?
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I never said they are idiots, I said that their beliefs are idiotic. Not the same thing.
It's a great tragedy that in the 21st century, with all the knowledge in the world easily available to us, there are still intelligent people who have idiotic beliefs.
I think most religious people secretly know that their beliefs are a bit nonsensical, but they've had those beliefs beaten into them as children or peddled to them like McFries as adults. They're to scared to think, because "God hates questioning curiosity" and "God loves unquestioning faith"
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actually... no.
but many people will make such comments in order to "prove" that their own faith - or lack of - is correct
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Just remember - we are all born atheists. Nobody's taught about God by God. We're all taught by people who were taught by people.
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we're also born not knowing about science too.
although if you think about it, many scientific "facts" are often believed on the basis that you think someone else proved it, without actually investigating it by oneself.
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Yes, but the fact is that they HAVE been proven by someone. If science isn't 100% repeatable, objective and logically sound, it would never get published. Unlike every religious text.
Ultimately we have to believe what somebody else said about 99% of the things we know. Personally, I'd rather believe someone with a PhD than someone who heard voices in his head.
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so you assume.
and you're forgetting - many of those PhDs also believe. so where does that leave you?
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They believe because they trust the reliability of previous PhDs.
If you want to follow the chain of belief backwards, science eventually gets you to someone making observations, drawing the most logical conclusion and publishing the results.
If you follow religion's chain of belief backwards, you eventually get to someone who said "I heard God talking to me."