Atheist bus-ads in Madison, Wisconsin

[tw1515tw]

The UK bus campaign of 2008

[Skeptic]

@anon15383236

I used to think of myself as an atheist, until someone pointed out that while I believe there is no G/god, I also can’t prove that there isn’t one (or several, or many, etc.). I guess I agree with this person that that means I’m agnostic, a “skeptic.”

The vaguer the god, less likely it can be disproved. However, Christians make all sorts of specific claims about their god, and when those claims contradict logic and/or evidence, those claims, and that god, are subject to disproof. So, if god is the creature that created the earth 6,000 years ago, then god does not exist, because the earth is demonstrably billions of year old.

However, theists have more excuses than a pregnant nun for the contradictions both within their belief system (eg., they are monotheists, but believe in three gods), and without (age of the earth, etc.)

Too often I find that faith is mysterious only selectively. Believers constantly attribute all sorts of qualities to their gods and have a list of doctrines as long as your arm. It is only when the questions get tough that, suddenly, their God disappears in a puff of mystery. Ineffability becomes a kind of invisibility cloak, only worn when there is a need to get out of a bit of philosophical bother.

– Julian Baggini

[vrplumber]

Every time I find myself with a gaping hole I can’t explain, I try to ignore it to see if it goes away.

[Skeptic]

@vrplumber

Every time I find myself with a gaping hole I can’t explain, I try to ignore it to see if it goes away.

I think I’d visit an ER

[anon63581570]

I’doffer to have you over for lunch and talk space things if you want I see no incompatibilities with having faith and believing in Science (IT WORKS BITCHES!) Science is the tool kit i reach for when there are problems of the material. Faith is when I have problems of the soul (and even then, psychietry. Work in progress but very enlightening.)

It is not my job to ‘save’ you (no matter what the bible says) least of all by badgering and hounding you. It’s my job to try being a friend if at all possible.

Point is I wouldn’t mind being your neighbor buddy.

[Skeptic]

@singletona082

Science is the tool kit i reach for when there are problems of the material. Faith is when I have problems of the soul

Science is the tool kit we use when we want to separate what is true from what merely seems to be true. Religion makes truth claims about how the world works, but lacks any objective truth testing mechanism. Science and religion are two mutually incompatible epistemological methods.

[RogerStrong]

@anon50609448

“Everyone” is an exaggeration - but nature or nurture a lot of us have a “god shaped hole” inside of us waiting to be filled, and it’s painful that it’s empty.

This is why many of us are here on this forum. From the current topics you can deduce that we each have at least one of:

• A Whuffie-shaped hole in our heart
• A CO2 cannister-shaped hole in our heart
• A cartoon-genitals-shaped hole in our heart
• A Robert Morrow-shaped hole in our heart
• An underrated film-shaped hole in our heart
• A Trump-shaped hole in our heart
• A Playboy Playmate Centerfold-shaped hole in our heart
• A Strategic Butts-shaped hole in our heart
• A Biolite-shaped hole in our heart

Etc.

[mimir]

yes but the problem is we,ve never actually defined the question, at least thats what DEEP THOUGHT said.

[anon63581570]

I have a raspberry pi shaped hole in my heart.

[RogerStrong]

I had a bacon-shaped hole in my heart. Having bacon clogged that hole right up.

[shaddack]

@anon15383236

I used to think of myself as an atheist, until someone pointed out that while I believe there is no G/god, I also can’t prove that there isn’t one (or several, or many, etc.). I guess I agree with this person that that means I’m agnostic, a “skeptic.”

Can you prove the nonexistence of invisible pink unicorns? Or red-eyed elephants so cleverly masked between strawberries that you can’t detect them?

[mimir]

try checking under society of friends or friends meeting house.

[Mal_Tosevite]

Has Cory posted any of his views on Gamergate?

/I kid, I kid.

[anon15383236]

?

What are you going on about?

[NickSay]

Did I miss the last atheist bus?

[Felton]

Yeah, you’ll have to take this one:

[RogerStrong]

Transfer please!

[Mal_Tosevite]

Eh, just having a bit of fun on an entirely too serious thread.

The graphic is from /r/JustNeckbearThings, either around the time The Amazing Atheist came out as anti-feminism, around the time Dawkins did the same, or around the time Thunderf00t went all Gamergate. I don’t remember which, but it became part of the anti-neckbeard circlejerk to make fun of vocal atheists. Seemed to annoy a lot of people, which I think was the only point to the whole thing.

[anon62122146]

I hate to be a pedant (actually, I don’t), but this literal minded interpretation of “gnostic” I think really goes against what the actual gnostics were in to. They were, by and large, much more about direct experience of godhead than about claiming intellectual certainty in some silly theological debate.

[daneel]

Who gnos?