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"Delusions are just as valid as a religion"
Whenever I hear an atheist say this, I wish I could bring Rene Descartes back from the grave to strangle them.
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In Cartesian rationalism, God is necessary for you to be certain that your belief in a mathematical axiom doesn't come from a brain defect or an evil spirit.
Now, Cartesian dualism may well be wrong, but you need to demonstrate that before going "Herp derp, belief in God is just like schizophrenia." It's hardly a self-evident truth that all the dumb Xians would realize if they stopped being sheeple.
Which reminds me. An OP that depends on invoking a single authority is really dumb.
as an atheist, I can see the value in relgion. at least, having faith in a god (or gods) can give some comfort over some of the more distressing parts of life, and allows you to answer from unanswerable questions (what happens to our soul when we die? etc.) Most religions also teach good life morals.
but some people take it just too far. Just look at fanatics from any religion. people who put the agenda of their church above that of themselves are easily prone to going down the wrong path in the name of their god(s).
in the end, religion is good, but if you are a mentally healthy, intelligent, morally upstanding individual, faith is unnecessary.
And Burden of Proof is just a fancy way of saying "I can't be bothered to provide evidence for my side, so you're going to have to do all the work instead!"
Lol
and laughing at it because it's funny.
That is all.
It's like, for most years of my life I didn't follow any particular religion but still believed in UFOs. Nowadays, I love Taoism (though I'm not sure if there's any rules/doctrines I should be following) but I've become a halfway skeptic of the paranormal. So am I religious or not? It tears me up in side, it does.
Maybe it's because almost all of the well known religions have some kind of God?
Also, first result on dictionary.com for religion:
dismissible, atheism is just as much a faith as any religion is.
This. And I say this as atheist.
I think that pretty much any belief system is valid, no matter where it comes from. Probably, I would strangely at someone, who unironically beliefs in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but I wouldn't say that it's "wronger" than Christian belief or a lack of religion.
Well, people have recorded videos of UFOs and more than one person has seen them. So they "exist", but they may not exist as the people percieve them, it's up to the video recorders to prove that the ship was not of human origin, and then that is all they will need to prove that they are real in the sense that they want them to be.
So far though, I haven't found any videos of God anywhere so I guess I will just have to wait for a sighting.
Whether or not it's extraterrestrial in nature is a completely different fucking question. UFO =/= aliens.
Unless I'm thinking of something else.
^ Buddhism? I think?