• ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
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    Atheism, like all belief systems

    You really should educate yourself a little bit more to get to the baseline level.

    Even if you bet on the right horse, it doesn’t mean everything you do is automatically justified; empathy is a higher order law.

    Oh, nevermind, you’re one of those feel-good nonsense wafflers.

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      Atheism is as much a belief as bald is a haircut. Technically slightly different, but makes sense to throw into the same box.

      Learning that being right doesn’t make you not an arsehole is a lesson too many of us had to learn the hard way.

      The satanic temple’s 7th tenet sums it up quite well.

      Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

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        Atheism is as much a belief as bald is a haircut. Technically slightly different

        Only theists try to bring atheism down to a belief system.

        By that logic: absence of being on fire is kind of being on fire. Not drowning is a specific type of drowning. Vacuum is a particular form of atmosphere. Being an idiot is just a form of wisdom.

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      I used to be big on atheism but I do think it is also a belief system now. I realized that when a christian friend asked me “if we witnessed something that is indisputably an act of God, would you still believe he doesn’t exist ?”

      So, anyway, I say I’m agnostic and that I really dislike organized religion now.

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        “If you saw a pig with wings soaring trough the skies, would you still believe pigs couldn’t fly?” Impecable logic, no notes.

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            Thats part of? the joke. If the fauxsimilar is close enough to a real miracel, whats the difference? All jokes aside, i play on the “what if - falacy”

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        if we witnessed something that is indisputably an act of God

        What is something that is indisputably an act of God?