I surely can’t be the only atheist who is puzzled when theists come here, and post as if they expect, nay demand, their superstitious beliefs be paid the kind of reverence they give them? All the while sneering at atheism and atheists. One could be forgiven for imagining some of them yearned for the time when what they were offering was not a choice.
I shall quote the Hitch again, as he had a way of cutting through the guff, that combined with a command of language few could match:
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
Christopher Hitchens
Well that is often how I feel when I meet one these sneering contemptuous apologists for superstition, like I am being sneered at by an unctuous snake oil salesman.
Stick to the topic, I can see it’s hard (especially when you apparently have no ability to make a rational case without calling people names and cursing in front of children) but you could at least try. If one doesn’t know what one is searching for what prospect is there of finding it?
The argument stands… (Quite obviously a human body.) Really, Diversion is all you have? Poor, poor, theist. You asked for clarification and I gave it. Argument stands.
At last, someone with testicular fortitude! OK that’s a position at least which is more than can be said for some of the other tawdry characters here.
Yes, the God that created the universe and everything in it. By “relevance” do you mean utility? material utility to you, or something different? Why care? I have no idea, what decides whether you care about something or not?
Why would I search for something I can not and do not define? Oh, wait! You mean gravity, electricity, the strong and weak nuclear force, atomic energy, solar power, disease model of medicine, etc. Everything you know of was once something that could not clearly be defined.
Why not? I got the impression that insults, insinuations, name calling, a few “fucks” and “cunts” and other expletives for good measure and little helping of ridicule is how you guys discuss things here, so I can do that too surely? Couple that with the fact too, that I’m better at it than a lightweight like you.
Do you actually look like the pompous stuck up little prick I see in your avatar? you sure sound like it.
Please share. Which God did you discover. How do you know it is a god and not some advanced being with godlike technology. Are you asserting you have the intelligence to distinguish between an advanced being with godlike technology and an actual god? How can you do that? I know I can’t. What makes you think you can? I am an atheist, I am saying ‘I don’t know and so far I do not believe any god claims I have heard.’ You on the other hand, have the intelligence to distinguish god from non-god. You can identify what is to me the unidentifiable. How do you know the god you experience is actually a god? Please share.
