game & kirby
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Yeh, the original question was answered and reanswered a lot...as with most threads, and the real life discussions they reflect, we went off on a bit of a tangent and never got back on track... oh well :D
Anyway, a lot of people always say that there is no drive for atheists to attempt to disprove what religious people believe in. A lot of people say that we should just let religious people be, and stop flaming, bashing, accusing, insulting, or belittling them. The way I see it, we're not doing any of the above.
If there's one thing that unites atheists, its the appreciation of clarity.
Clear thoughts, unadulterated, and logically progressive, are important to an atheist, since in a world where the vast majority of people live under what atheist's opinions range from fanciful belief to raging delusion, it's natural that we hold to our clear view of what we know the world to be, through reason.
When an atheist attempts to explain the inexistance or the logical fallacies in a religious person's reasoning, he might be doing it just for fun, or out of boredom. However, I propose that many, indeed most do it out of a sense of respect for the truth, and that everyone has a right to be privy to it, regardless of wether they want to or not.
It is important to post script this by saying that everyone believes he knows the truth, so everyone to a certain extent believes this, but maybe atheists more than others, since they relied on empirical evidence and logic to formulate their knowledge of the world, rather than making it up, or having someone make it up for them (rather than through religious revelation, to be politically correct:D )
- game & kirby
Anyway, a lot of people always say that there is no drive for atheists to attempt to disprove what religious people believe in. A lot of people say that we should just let religious people be, and stop flaming, bashing, accusing, insulting, or belittling them. The way I see it, we're not doing any of the above.
If there's one thing that unites atheists, its the appreciation of clarity.
Clear thoughts, unadulterated, and logically progressive, are important to an atheist, since in a world where the vast majority of people live under what atheist's opinions range from fanciful belief to raging delusion, it's natural that we hold to our clear view of what we know the world to be, through reason.
When an atheist attempts to explain the inexistance or the logical fallacies in a religious person's reasoning, he might be doing it just for fun, or out of boredom. However, I propose that many, indeed most do it out of a sense of respect for the truth, and that everyone has a right to be privy to it, regardless of wether they want to or not.
It is important to post script this by saying that everyone believes he knows the truth, so everyone to a certain extent believes this, but maybe atheists more than others, since they relied on empirical evidence and logic to formulate their knowledge of the world, rather than making it up, or having someone make it up for them (rather than through religious revelation, to be politically correct:D )
- game & kirby