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This says more about your ignorance of science than anything else.... read Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.

This says more about your ignorance of science than anything else.... read Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.

This says more about your ignorance of science than anything else.... read Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.

This says more about your ignorance of religion than anything else... read Dinesh D'Souza's What's So Great About Christianity?
Or Mere Christianity?
Or Evidence that Demands a Verdict?

can people see the visual I posted? It seemed to come up earlier, but now I only see a little box with a question mark.

"The cristian god is a being of terrific charachter; cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust"

Sojournertruth, I can't see your visual either.

Jfrmeister, your role model Thomas Jefferson seemed to have misspelled both Christian and character. The extra 'h' in "charachter" would be more useful if it replaced the missing 'h' in "cristian."

Then again, it's disputed if Thomas Jefferson actually made those spelling mistakes or even that quote.

"The cristian god is a being of terrific charachter; cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust"

Ignorance of religion isn't an insult. Since thier claims can't be backed up by evidence, they're books about nothing.

Believing in a god, it seems to me, is equivalent to believing in anything that has not yet been proved or is even provable.

Thomas Jefferson was a Deist 9almost an atheist) who hated much of the bible. It's perfectly inline with many other statements about religion he made.

His object was the reformation of some articles in the religion of the Jews, as taught by Moses. That sect had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.

Anyone else here find strong atheists extremely grating? I'm not just looking for loony theists here: I can't be the only one who finds them spectacularly irritating.

1) I'm something of a positivist. Yes, philosophy buffs, I know. Lower your guns, I'm impervious. I only view positive claims about the world which can be tested, and the rejection of which will result in a measurable real world butt kicking to all who fail to yield them, as meaningfully interpersonally objective.
2) "There is no God" is not a positive claim, per se. You can't test it. Thus, emotional investment in it (particularly if you view yourself as all infinitely more rational) is silly
3) To the "teapot agnostic" argument: yes, I'm a teapot agnostic. Any and all claims about untestable "reality" are in limbo so to speak: I, hesitatingly, might even call them somewhat nonsensical propositions which ought rather to be banished from our language. It could be there, there's no reason I can't believe in it; it makes no difference provided I do not grant it undue consideration in my actions, which leads me to...
4) Morality isn't positive. Thus, using God as a premise for moral action is equally stupid to using anything, at all. Unless you are an egotistical "I will thus" person, but then I guess you have your head on tight enough not to be worrying about dead gods.
5) Borrowed language: most people who I run into who count themselves as strong atheists use arguments, language etc., which are plagiaristically identical to the language used by the atheistic talking heads of the world. Sure fine; but then they make jokes about theists being brainwashed, sheeplike, unable to think for themselves, etc. Gold.
6) The fact that they want to cast this as a function of stupidity. Your philisophical premises aren't positive either, including your epistemological values; anything beyond (non moral) utilitarian heuristics is not objective for any two individuals who are supposed to share nothing more than a rational mind and a universe
7) I hate emotions

I don't even object to holding strong atheistic beliefs, including all the points I tried to criticize above; I just can't stand the self righteous invective. So, who's with me? And why aren't you one of them? (*preferably not simply because you believe in god and you don't like people who don't. I don't believe in your god either). Alternatively, why should I be one of them?