Good article. It saddens me that people need a global economic crisis to understand that Laissez-faire capitalism is a self-destructive ideology (especially considering that we almost crashed in 1900 and we did crash in 1929.) Historically conservative economic policy has always led to volatile...
To my understanding libertarian socialism is a form of anarchism, which in a way is the ideal communism. Wealth is shared in communities and is evenly distributed, but it is done so naturally by the people, and not by a government (like most communist nations.)
Thus the government is small, but...
Hmm. So you would classify all infants as agnostics who, once more developed, decide between theism and atheism, rejecting the phrase "everyone is born an atheist."
However, (I went back to your original post for this) I disagree with your second proposition that weak atheists and strong...
Probably true, but I would say that a claim that relies on personal experience and emotions to prove itself is objectively a weaker claim than one that has more substantial support. If I introduce the theory of gravity and the evidence for it and demonstrate experimental proof, that is more...
Yeah I definitely agree with you. I think that as atheists (or at least secular individuals) we should emphasize the things we like about the Christmas Spirit. Unity, Generosity, Family Together, Kindness to Strangers, and of course Cheap Commercialism. We should send a message to Christians...
I suppose I'm just harder to convince than they are. Its a claim that has very questionable evidence and bases most of its arguments on sentiment rather than any form of logic. There is also nothing that is absolutely observed that God can be compared to. The indications that they have of God...
Well I would believe that you are a brunette because there are many people who have brown hair, thus there is some (albeit not absolute) evidence for your idea. Thus I would assume based on your statement and the abundance of brunettes I believe you. Now if evidence came to light that you were...
Apologies, I didn't mean to specify a particularly theological debate. Force of habit you know?
Well no one has ever claimed that God has a physical measurable manifestation (to my knowledge) so it is usually implied that God is imperceptible. Older pagan religions had God as perceptible beings...
Hi, I've become mildly interested in Luciferianism recently and I was wondering how you approach the comparison between Lucifer and Satan. Do you consider them separate beings completely or do you believe that they are the same person and Lucifer's independence from God simply justifies his...
Hell yes I'm nervous about it. We live in a predominantly religious world and the ludicrous idea that Atheists don't have morals is widely believed.
If asked I will answer that I am an atheist, but I don't like to be in that situation because while I can stand the company of people I disagreed...
Nietzsche believed that humanity was moving away from organized religion and he celebrated this because he believed that christian morality was perverting the human race. However Nietzsche realized that one of the major challenges in being an atheist was coming up with an alternate meaning of...
I'm personally more impressed with his perception of the secularization of society. This idea that a Nihilistic Wave was going to wash over newly realized atheists was a chilling prediction, but a rational one. And the audacity to say God is Dead when really traditional religion was only...
Copernicus I really recommend that you reread this post by Halcyon carefully (especially the bolded paragraph) because, as I see it, this is the clearest and most comprehensive explanation of the term atheist that has appeared in this thread. I'm almost discouraged from trying to expand on it...
I totally agree with you Human beings are nuts. That being said you can't stem the flow of technology in order to cripple people it just doesn't work that way. Technology produces tools, we shouldn't take away the tools we should teach the user how to use them properly.
The problem is that by...
I'm just using the idea of God, but it appears the idea of God varies more than I thought it did and encompassing a variety of beings.
If God was rational and had a goal in mind (something christians both claim to be true and not true) then his actions could be predicted. If God considers all...
Theres a concept that God isn't a powerful spiritual being? Wow maybe I need to be here more then I thought. I'd always assumed that God was always a spiritual being of some level or another and beliefs about what he wanted differed while what he was stayed somewhere within the "super powerful...
I became agnostic mainly because I do not respect religious dogma. When I talk to a fundamentalist about some issue they put religious principle above the world around them and the people that live in it. This horrifies me to no end. People's first concern should be preventing the suffering of...
The definition of God is omnipotent (or massively powerful) spiritual being. How can we understand that? He isn't visible and In my opinion he hasn't interacted with humans before. Therefore we cannot understand him. I don't base any of my assumptions on people who claim to know of God.
Maybe...