Religion: What it means to you

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

How would you even raise a kid atheist? Take him to the laboratory on weekends and say HERE'S YOUR GOD!? \

Teach the children the scientific method, and the golden rules, its a very logical approach in a sense to test many of the assumptions that within our society. That doesn't necessary mean the children will turn out to be atheist, but if they are not ignorant of the scientific understanding of the physical world, its possible to come to a happy medium between faith and science, at least.

I was kind of surprised to see this kind of knee jerk reaction coming from you though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I hate staunch atheists even more than I hate fanatical religious people.

Well, I consider myself a "staunch" atheist, although probably not "fanatical". Do you hate me too?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

RR: (To the whole take the kid into the lab and say "this is your god" thingy) I didn't like how people drags science into this. Even though some (me included) seeing that atheism as a logical extension of science, but in actuality, science itself should be neutral, since all question pretending to the existence of god is inherently none-falsifiable. However, that doesn't mean science and religion is inherently in conflict with each other. In a sense one should come to the conclusion to be an atheist as a matter of philosophical and historical conscious decision, science is not the main reason that I am a atheist, neither is being an atheist the most dominate identity that defines me, however, that doesn't mean it is less important to us then the ideology held by people who define their identity through religion.

I wouldn't call "atheism" a religion though, because it lacks many of the characteristic of a religion, such as dogmas and doctrines , although I guess you could just categorically dismiss that anthropological none-sense, however, just because specific ideologies is contrary to one another it doesn't necessary mean they are automatically comparable type of philosophical constructs. Since "atheism" isn't as a complex and structurally entrenched within the society or a cultural construct as religion with many dominating ideologies and institutions.

Also, despite its name, Scientology has nothing to do with sceince or scientific method.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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human eyeball became perfected

It is?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Are you agnostic as to the existence of Invisible Pink Unicorn?

I personally think whether or not one is theistic leaning agnostic or atheist leaning agnostic really depends on whether or not one accept solipsism as a valid argument when it comes to the discussion of observable physical realities.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

The whole Pink Unicorn gambit is so played out, guys, honestly.

You gotta admit though, its got a nice ring to it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by LordsSword

I'm critical of the atheist because of the denial of a God on the basis of faith without some kind of back up plan.

Wait, back up plan for what?

FELIPE NO

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Christian religion, unlike others,

I was raised as in a family that is Taoist/Buddhist/ and Confucian hybrid, which later slowly taken over by a new generation of Pentecostals, but mainly because the older generation of the family has die off, but a lot of those values and philosophy remains. But what I have encounter in my upbringing neither lacks depth nor lack of history, and it also does not lack of people who believe in those belief systems. It makes me chuckles whenever westerners talks about their religion, which often horribly lacks introspection whenever it is compare to likes of Hindu or Buddhism, and held it as something of pinnacle of religious or spiritual experience.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?