Your Favorite Philosopher/Philosopher You Most Agree With & Why

[snex]

Dawkins reminds me a lot of snex, actually. They both put together valid arguments, but with heavy amounts of insult and sarcasm thrown in. Trolls, perhaps, but intellectual ones.

when youve been doing this for years and theists just keep coming back with the same stupid dishonest crap over and over again you start to get sick of it.

its like the movie groundhog day. you wake up the next morning and the theists are saying the same crap they did yesterday, even though you refuted it.

 

[The Executive]

when youve been doing this for years and theists just keep coming back with the same stupid dishonest crap over and over again you start to get sick of it.

its like the movie groundhog day. you wake up the next morning and the theists are saying the same crap they did yesterday, even though you refuted it.

SARCASM METRE IS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!

News flash: theology doesn't suddenly change because you disagree with it. If you believe, fine. If you don't, then don't. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink--this goes for both sides.

 

[yossarian22]

Dawkins reminds me a lot of snex, actually. They both put together valid arguments, but with heavy amounts of insult and sarcasm thrown in. Trolls, perhaps, but intellectual ones.

Don't insult Dawkins. Dawkins has the intellectual honesty and common sense to recognize that valid and coherent theism exists.
"If it is not a backwards self propagating belief system, I have nothing against it"
Not an exact quote, but I remember him saying it somewhere...

 

[snex]

SARCASM METRE IS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!

News flash: theology doesn't suddenly change because you disagree with it. If you believe, fine. If you don't, then don't. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink--this goes for both sides.

thats exactly the problem, isnt it? theology never changes. its the same invalid crap as it always has been. you prove an argument wrong, and theists will praise it even more. the dumber the argument, the more theists will use it.

Don't insult Dawkins. Dawkins has the intellectual honesty and common sense to recognize that valid and coherent theism exists.

once again, proving youve never read a single word by the man.

 

[The Executive]

thats exactly the problem, isnt it? theology never changes. its the same invalid crap as it always has been. you prove an argument wrong, and theists will praise it even more. the dumber the argument, the more theists will use it.

You cannot prove or disprove theology.

 

[blazedaces]

You cannot prove or disprove theology.

But you can show that a proof/argument for theology is invalid or extremely weak...

-blazed

 

[yossarian22]

once again, proving youve never read a single word by the man.

So, he has written papers declaring Taoism, Buddhism, and the like idiocy?

You cannot prove or disprove theology.

Well, we can show that an argument for theism is inherently weak, which is good enough

 

[snex]

You cannot prove or disprove theology.

of course you can. all theologies make predictions of what we should observe if they were true. if the predictions fail, the theology is disproven.

So, he has written papers declaring Taoism, Buddhism, and the like idiocy?

these are not brands of theism.

 

[yossarian22]

these are not brands of theism.

Many many flavors of them are.

 

[snex]

Many many flavors of them are.

and dawkins rightly criticizes those that are.

 

[yossarian22]

and dawkins rightly criticizes those that are.

Which takes us right back to the initial question.