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Originally Posted by Wormius
I think you are confusing regular non-believers (because, honestly, if you weren’t indoctrinated through life then believing in supernatural beings and miracles should seem absurd with the annoying, overly-zealous in nature, philosopher debaters.
Like, really nobody like those guys either. Atheism doesn’t need spokespeople.
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The existence of life on this planet, never mind our particularly exceptional form of life, is the most miraculous event in the observable universe.
Virtually every achievement or characteristic attributed to a God could be attributed to the sun - can you credibly argue the sun is not a supernatural being?
There are more ways to look at things than the most reductive, most pedantic, most awful ones. People are allowed to be wrong, and probably are wrong, about all sorts of interpretations of God, but that doesn’t make them wrong about the greater value of knowledge, philosophy and tradition that has endured for thousands and thousands of years.
You can use religion to justify your own ####ty behaviour- protesting funerals of dead soldiers, flying planes into buildings, pick an atrocity. That’s easy.
It’s harder to read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in 2023 and understand what it’s actually about. You’ll have that coloured by all the stupid anti-gay trolls who cite it like it’s some clear injunction against all the colours of the rainbow (it’s not - it’d be like thinking the story of Hansel and Gretel is a warning against the use of gingerbread as a building material).
Ten righteous men can save your city - that’s the moral of Sodom and Gomorrah.
You only need to count how many votes prevented Donald Trump from being impeached and convicted after January 6 to understand the timeless quality inherent to these stories.