Best cure for religion is actually reading the damn books. It’s utter bullshit and anyone with a functioning brain can tell.
That's what I always tell people. I had 12 years of Catholic education. I'm convinced there is nothing in this world that could've made me less religious than all the stuff we read and studied.
Obviously, The "Church" (it wasn't even called Catholic back then as it had no competition) has never been as popular as it was when most of its believers were illiterate.
Which book will make me stop believing in chaos magic?
Idunno, pulp fantasy novels? 🤷
Amen
Atheism is no more a religion than a lack of a Ferrari is a Ferrari. That's the best way I know of to explain the concept.
I can believe I haven't heard this before... This is great.
True - though if all your neighbors own Ferrari's, to an outsider, you could be described as the "non-Ferrari owner."
I remember being ignorant to religion. slowly noticing the holes and the bull-shittery of the doctrine with the more I learned about it. religions thrive off of ignorance.
I grew up religious and went to religious schools until college. We were tasked with proving the holy book was correct in highschool. Guess what part of this comment made me not religious. It wasn't college.
Even worse are the people who think evolution is a religion…
They are just religious people who believe that there is no evidence to evolution and its faith based like other religions !!
The theory of evolution proves that organisms which perceive fitness are more successful and more prolific than organisms which perceive truth. Thus, it is a scientific fact that the world we perceive is not a depiction of truth. I think religious people who believe reality is real are fools.
Yes, atheism is not a belief, it's a realisation. One day you realise that you don't believe, that you are simply not convinced. You don't decide to be an atheist, you don't belief in atheism, you simply can't make yourself belief something that you are not convinced of. It's not in your control, you haven't been provided with sufficient (or any) evidence and realise that the label of atheist accurately describes your state of mind.
I don't want to join anyone's stupid fan club.
Hot take: atheism, in some of its acceptions, is a religion. Not all atheist are this way, but too many are simply with the belief that no god exists and that faithful people cannot be right and that what their doing is wrong.
The problem with that belief is that it's as intolerant and hateful as the most fanatical believers. And religion wars never have been a good thing.
too many are simply with the belief that no god exists and that faithful people cannot be right and that what their doing is wrong.
That’s not hateful or intolerant. Hateful and intolerant isn’t disagreeing with you or even vocalizing a belief that you’re wrong. It’s certainly not voicing that a religion is harming others (I.e. wrong).
Is a meme format. It was supposed to be funny?
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I like to call people like you monoatheists. See, monotheists only believe in one god, and monoatheists only disbelieve in one god.
