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If this is true, why do atheists get so bent out of shape when you don't comply with their scriptures?
by mistermann 4y ago
If this is true, why do atheists get so bent out of shape when you don't comply with their scriptures?
- dron57 4y agoAtheists don't have scriptures. Religious people love thinking about atheism as just another religion and will bring up all kinds of examples like Stalin and Mao commited attrocities in the name of religion. In reality atheists don't have anything in common with one another. There is no shared belief system or a set of scriptures for atheists. Stalin and Mao did however have a shared belief system and it wasn't atheism.
- mistermann 4y ago> In reality atheists don't have anything in common with one another. This seems unlikely. > There is no shared belief system or a set of scriptures for atheists. Large quantities of those I talk to on the internet seem to disagree.
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoBy all means, don't follow "our scriptures", whatever those may be, but accept that we consider anything anyone would call "faith" and belief in the super natural somewhere on the scale between magical thinking and mental illness.
- mistermann 4y agoIf people were so forgiving when it's time to walk the talk. Regardless, this (particularly, the conceptualization of the supernatural) is somewhat of a variation of the kind of thinking that I'm referring to. I don't disagree that this isn't formally documented in scripture, but nonetheless it seems to have somehow ended up broadly installed in minds (both theist and atheist, to be fair), not unlike how various behaviors can be observed in theists despite it not being a part of formal scripture.