tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post3399130109823505294..comments2023-05-12T08:29:27.520-07:00Comments on Another Atheist: Letters to the faithful: Please don't tell me what I believeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-44513972563219882542016-08-04T22:20:21.295-07:002016-08-04T22:20:21.295-07:00Wow, i didn't realize until i read this post t...Wow, i didn't realize until i read this post tonight how meaningful it would be to hear that reiterated. Thanks! Benjiboy180https://www.blogger.com/profile/10694306312315602223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-20143411067838913432016-08-04T22:20:11.220-07:002016-08-04T22:20:11.220-07:00Wow, i didn't realize until i read this post t...Wow, i didn't realize until i read this post tonight how meaningful it would be to hear that reiterated. Thanks! Benjiboy180https://www.blogger.com/profile/10694306312315602223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-28497041880734831172016-06-11T00:12:56.012-07:002016-06-11T00:12:56.012-07:00Well putWell putScott Wesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18106937181788036683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-21189958408223803052015-02-08T13:38:19.993-08:002015-02-08T13:38:19.993-08:00I agree it is hard to have a rational dialogue wit...I agree it is hard to have a rational dialogue with someone who has reached their position by non-rational means. Yet there is a continuum of believers. Some are more open to the ideas of evidence, some are more curious about atheism. So sometimes I will choose to engage in believers.<br /><br />I've known some that have been challenged, and some that have eventually deconverted. So it is not always futile. Kaimataihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11711401322378210834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-81335554020097034602015-02-07T22:30:53.391-08:002015-02-07T22:30:53.391-08:00My experience is that the religious can only have ...My experience is that the religious can only have a position to argue from if you require faith for your position. Only then, can the person that they need to save from the devil's claws, not ask for evidence. You can't convert nothing, you need a faith to convert.So it is all about your book vs my book or your ritual vs mine your spiritual experience vs mine. Never ever can evidence be required. This would be fine if they were not commissioned to go and convince other gullible fools to stop wasting their hard earned money and rather give it to their organisation, or as they like to call it "saving you"<br />The leaders are atheists same as you the difference would be that your moral values stop you from lying and cheating to your flock, as they do. They argue from a position that you can never touch, they sell for real money today something you will only recieve once you are dead and then you can't complain about the product. So the hope to reunited with loved ones is so strong for the masses and the love for money so strong for the deceivers, how can we hope to have a rational debate about sometime as non existing as your faith with any of them? fannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04723518023134435311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-53050282174301564712014-07-07T14:54:03.532-07:002014-07-07T14:54:03.532-07:00Aah well, the reason-train left Joe's station ...Aah well, the reason-train left Joe's station a long long time ago. Kaimataihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11711401322378210834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-76377674511151711612014-06-02T15:35:01.519-07:002014-06-02T15:35:01.519-07:00Today on twitter I was told by a certain YEC, whos...Today on twitter I was told by a certain YEC, whose name shall remain anonymously Joe, that I, as an atheist believe in magic, evolution, abiogenesis, fish to human speciation AND nothing! I am an atheist, I do not believe in Gods. Period.Jay of the homininshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09176994880540880388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-38736475344142458272013-06-16T13:58:35.985-07:002013-06-16T13:58:35.985-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Wallace BShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15465441244537670731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591986847602925234.post-84538354697413878762013-06-10T16:52:53.597-07:002013-06-10T16:52:53.597-07:00Like the subtle Robert M. Pirsig reference. :-)Like the subtle Robert M. Pirsig reference. :-)Stooshiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09541609914500686900noreply@blogger.com