RE: 5 Questions for Atheists

"If you could choose anything to say to god upon death, what would it be and why?"
"What type of evidence, and to what degree, would I need to become a theist?"
"Do I think a general hostility towards religion or theism is a 'good' or 'bad' thing for
freethinkers/skeptics."
"What sort of decisions are effected by my atheism."
"What is more important: gaining as many true beliefs about the world or not gaining as many false beliefs about the world?"

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[artwdog]

I love hitchins...youtube him and widen your horizon.

[MotionFur]

Is this directed towards me or just a general statement?

[KathyGurl14]

"The fool, on the other hand, always has an opinion; and at the end of the day, maybe the fool, or the idiot, really does hold more truthful positions."

Hahahahah!

[MotionFur]

What do you think you're laughing about, kathy?

[kaiser1977ful]

good answers

[jfiggs1]

If you know where you are going, you're more likely to find the answers that will get you there. Why leave in the first place?

[jfiggs1]

To the extent that answers are ideas within an evolving culture, they are all the same as far as their tenacity and ability to exist over time. The answers are never static and their validity is not always measured on a purely rational scale. Irrational answers and ideas may persist and are quite virulent. But, all ideas should be treated the same by an individual. The truest of answers is still merely a signpost on a road to nowhere and everywhere.

[KathyGurl14]

Three simple words: I don't know.

[RyuDarragh]

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4) None, really. I look with skepticism, if a bit jandiced, on any decisions made that can affect me or my friends, family or community that are based on some rabid philosphical or unanalyzed philosophy, religious or not. That would include someone claiming either Theistic or Atheistic thinking.

5) Gaining true beliefs means not gaining false beliefs. If you can't tell the one from the other, then either will seem equally truthful. If you gain 5 truths and the world has a 1000 truths...

[RyuDarragh]

1) Why? That's it. All boiled down, "Why?"

2) That would take some doing. I can concieve of a thousand ways a really advanced alien entity could play god. STNG and Q is one. Any sufficiently advanced science and all that.

3) By that Veritas48 seems mean actual hatred for religion, "anti-theism", in his terms. Not Atheism. No. Disrespect leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. That way leads to the Dark Side.

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