Advantages to questioning "Creator's Word" not "The Creator"

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[djarm67]

Thanks RA

I wasn't aware of Todd. Now subscribed.

DJ

[RabidApe]

sweeeeeeeeeet!

[Kdawg270]

But the way I look at it if People get some comfort in thier belifes in this life then why remove them of thier peace . Are you not acking like the one that cast's the stone in away. you are Casting the first stone...

[lazyconquistador]

I completely agree that tactful discourse is the best way to bypass a religious person's ego. However, after 15 beers and 2 hours of arguing with an idiot, its so hard not to just say 'fuck it' and call them a retard.

[rba718]

I've encountered that before too, which I'm sure any Atheist is familiar with. The whole "If it wasn't God, where'd everything come from? huh? huh?" It really works to defend their short comings and meanwhile I'm trying to sort through the questions and trying to quell my frustration lol.

[ToddAllenGates]

> I can see how it could be very useful and I myself have used it once on a pastor ... I wasn't condescending or insulting but managed to stump him ...

Yes—there is that practical advantage! Being condescending actually works to the *theist's* advantage, because then that allows them to focus on your negativity, instead of the much more difficult area of defending the Bible as the work of omnipotent omniscience.

[WhatisaJugallo]

All I've heard in this video so far is the same rhetoric most anarchists use, only worse it ties the idea of "faith" in conjunction with achists in order to sow a cognitive dissonance in with any atheist viewers. Either way the video does little to explain my problems with anarchism which is the feasability of enacting anarchism and the question of what stops it from developing into a fuedal system then a monarchy like it initially did.

[Chrisnoscrub047]

hmm, well then I have a video recommendation for you:

watch?v=BZ4ylS1C6v4&feature=ch­annel_page

[WhatisaJugallo]

Chris I've been an atheist for a long time and still fine little to no validity in the rational behind the anarchistic ideal. That also said I find your step from agnostic to atheistic to be a little... presumptuous as the two are not separate ideals.

[WhatisaJugallo]

I've no beef with deism, indeed I considered myself a deist for a long time over my conversion from "theist" to atheist however the problem I had with the ideal (which eventually lead to me becoming an atheist) is the pointlessness of it, intellectually. Forgive me if I make any false assumptions about your beliefs but presuming we both except entirely naturalistic processes for the creation of our universe then our opinion differs only in that which (by definition) could never be comprehended.

[sputnikowns]

"outspoken" would be even more appropriate.

[melwap]

Pleas stop the "militant" atheist and start using "dedicated" atheist, makes more sens.