searcherman

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Re: Is there even one good reason to believe atheism is true?
« Reply #270 on: March 13, 2016, 06:13:40 AM »
Searcherman:

The xtian victim card isn't a ruse or a device.  It's been demonstrated beyond doubt with overwhelming evidence.  Christians are being squeezed out of Western public life and face increasing levels on discrimination.  See my thread on this.

I just don't see it in the US or my region.  That opinion is held by a tiny minority in my small Midwestern city, in a consistently Republican state, even. This minority is a right wing, conspiracist group, that our mostly non-Trump Republicans won't touch.
Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification.- K. Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

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john doe

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Re: Is there even one good reason to believe atheism is true?
« Reply #271 on: March 13, 2016, 07:30:13 AM »
The question [Do you believe in God?] has a peculiar structure. If I say no, do I mean I'm convinced God doesn't exist, or do I mean I'm not convinced he does exist? Those are two very different questions.
 - Carl Sagan


Perhaps....Carl, it does to you.... but, you have missed the most important thing about your proposition...

It isn't a material proposition... it is a grammatical proposition.... poor old dumb Sagan....

Poor old Philip.  Such a clever chap but always speaking from his reptilian brain.

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Hawke123

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Re: Is there even one good reason to believe atheism is true?
« Reply #272 on: March 13, 2016, 09:02:07 PM »
Searcherman:

The xtian victim card isn't a ruse or a device.  It's been demonstrated beyond doubt with overwhelming evidence.  Christians are being squeezed out of Western public life and face increasing levels on discrimination.  See my thread on this.

I just don't see it in the US or my region.  That opinion is held by a tiny minority in my small Midwestern city, in a consistently Republican state, even. This minority is a right wing, conspiracist group, that our mostly non-Trump Republicans won't touch.
I think you ought to check out Q11's culture war threads.  You probably don't see what he describes because it's not directly affecting your ability to live according to your convictions.
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