Religions make it easier but there’s countless examples of non-religious ideologies conflicting with scientific fact
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you DO realise you’ve left the ‘r’ out of ‘sheriff’, right…?
ohnosecond, n. The fraction of time between making a mistake and realizing it.
Basically what I experienced just after hitting ‘Submit’ when signing up for my account.
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I guess it’s a good thing most people understood it was satire. (And if you didn’t think it was satire, do you really think the shuttle landed on the moon?)
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To get to the other side?
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To be fair, he’s like one imam (salafist, likely) out of how many? Lots and lots. Plus, I think someone pointed out upthread that this might be from a satire program.
I would agree that atheists can be dogmatic or doctrinaire or aggressive, but fundamentalist?
Atheism is not like Christianity, where you can be fundamentalist (or not) about the inerrancy of scripture or the literal truth of the virgin birth or the bodily resurrection of Christ or whatever.
It has exactly one position: there is no god. So either all atheists are fundamentalists, or none are.
Stalinism?
You could believe that there is no god without being 100% sure that your opinions are right. You can recognise the good in religious people, or you could believe that only atheists are capable of being rational. Your absence of faith in deities could be just that, or it could be a defining element of your life that makes you split the world up into ‘atheists’ and ‘others’. Your atheism could also take a more specific form such as Stalinism or Secular Humanism, and you could dogmatically hold to your interpretation of that.
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No I mean it literally.
Believing in magical beings strikes me as a mental health issue. Therefore it would be great to find a treatment for the sufferers
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Yes, it refers to a hallucination/delusion in the minds of the religious that the educated understand as such. You ask the question as if @westcarleton invented the word.
You can’t be a fundamentalist atheist, since atheism has an explicit lack of doctrine. There are talking points that atheists use to justify their disbelief in nonsense but there are no atheist 10 commandments, or core text from which “fundamentals” can be derived.
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@ActionAbe
*Legally mandated sexism
*Retains capital punishment
…America is only half as barbaric and unevolved, I guess.
They both suck shit by my measure, but Saudi Arabia is a pretty backwards place.
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There are many suggested Atheist 10 commandments. Carlin had a set, Hitchens had a set, Dawkins has one.
What’s actually interesting is that none of them are actually commandments, but usually recommendations. And all of the suggested replacements are better than those in the bible, and are also much more efficient, since they aren’t 50% “I am god, I am awesome, you should be blowing me.”
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What about one missing concept outside of the graph? The “could you make some actually meaningful definitions that would not assume too much before we can even start talking” one?
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Yes, I’ve heard these rehashed in The God Delusion, but the beauty of atheism is that it’s not trying to prove anything, it’s trying to disprove the nonsense doctrines of others.
Atheism doesn’t need commandments and I find the idea that we somehow need them to be either a conversion-minded olive branch to the religious who believe religion is what gives us a moral code to live by (an idea absolutely demolished by The God Delusion) or a throwback to the often religious origins of contemporary atheists’ roots. Dawkins, for example, was raised in a Church of England background and his childhood (and that of many others of his age) was coloured by this religiosity.
“I am god, I am awesome, you should be blowing me.”
This FTW. I love this Louis CK bit:
Rape is not covered by the commandments, but saying god’s name in vain is punishable by eternity in hell. Of course rape isn’t covered though since it’s expressly endorsed as acceptable (especially when perpetrated against those of alternate beliefs) in the Old Testament.
http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm
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It was pretty obvious. A low-orbit vehicle landing on Moon. A musician with surname matching an astronaut-boxer. Could not scream “JOOKEEEEE!” any louder.
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The important thing to keep in mind being that some work better than others.
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When you talk to a god, it is called a prayer.
When a god talks to you, it is called schizophrenia.
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These are examples of poor visualization. With training a person can make ideas appear real to their senses, or even personify them. This can be useful. But when it happens to untrained people their faculties of discernment tend to fail them and they believe BS piped in from their subconscious.
