Religious person: I love God and the many nude pictures of my sex worker wife.
Einstein: 'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses,’ Einstein wrote to Gutkind, ‘the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.’
We here at McDonalds® canonically believe in god, but not your god. It's a Christian sect where our Board will sacrifice one of our many beef cows by forming a blood pact where we cut our hands and then we cut the cow and we mix our blood together and chant in tongues. Not latin stuff. some fucked up language you never heard of. then we do this dance and at the end we havent really accomplished anything besides mixing our blood together. Then we'll take a flamethrower and melt whoever the CEO is into a black, gelatinous sludge which we pour over the blood ritual of the cow and stuff. and that's how our famous chicken nugget sludge is made
Wow, you somehow made a worse MeatCanyon episode than the Chic-Fil-A sauce one
Nope, I was always open to religious suggestion, especially in my formative years, and was taught about religion in school up until about the age of 13.
But there was always more demanding stuff to do, that required more practical considerations...Mangod was always a secondary, impractical and unimportant concept.
So I was not taught to be an atheist, I just developed into adulthood with no interest in religious concepts.
I was raised by two atheists. The only time we ever went to church was when we stayed with my grandmother. If you know anything about Presbyterians at least in the US they're pretty laid back. The services were always uplifting, and I didn't even know Hell in Christian mythology existed till I was 12. I don't think believing or not believing in a deity has anything to do with how you're raised or who raised you. You're either called to it or not.
Because there are no gods in Buddhism, Jainism, some Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, the believers have to earn their forgiveness through other means.
There are all kinds of religions that have nothing to do with forgiveness because they don't have sin in them. And there is nothing about those religions that are centered around forgiveness. They might have some sort of tenant that relates to forgiving others just because it's healthy, but not because you need to do it to not have sin. And if there's no a god to pass judgment, why would you need forgiveness. You're having a hard time separating out what's monotheism and what's not.
They're slaves and their own gods of their lifestyles you just described. No one is putting them up to those lifestyles but their own selves which they are entrapped of all at once.
Sure it's a broad meaning. A meaning nonetheless.
I was going to order a burger. Nevermind.
How did you develop it and maintain the decision of being atheist?
That is the possibility to the secularists. Those who are called by a possible higher power or not.
In Buddhism, seeking forgiveness involves acknowledging and taking responsibility for harmful actions, expressing regret, and committing to change, rather than seeking forgiveness from a divine being. It's a process of self-reflection, developing honesty, and making amends, with the goal of restoring relationships and moving towards a more compassionate way of living.
Wasn't a decision it was just an individuals evolution of a state of mind.
Like I stated, up until about my 40's there was too much else going on, and no time to consider religion as a creation and existence hypothesis.
It is only latterly that I have taken time to consider such things.
I would suggest that similarly, most theists have their states of mind decided for them by their immediate socio-psychological conditioning, therefore most theists do not actually decide for themselves either.
Will you believe in the gods of theism now?
No Mal.
Belief in an unprovable deity is not my thing.
In fact, as I continually state, I do not believe in anything that cannot be proven.
Though I accept theism for what it unavoidably is...One cannot get away from theistic ideology.
I believe all deitied exists and Im a secularist. Secularism has nothing to do with religious belief.It has to do with keeping religion and the government separate.
You made your decision. I don't mean in the present. Your "no" is just reiterated.
There is no separation of church/religion and state.
The government holds secularists belief systems supported by the society, voters with their belief systems that elected them into policy.
You know exactly what's meant by separation of church and state. You wanting to look cool to Christians doesn't impress anyone.
Religious person: I love God and the many nude pictures of my sex worker wife.
Einstein: 'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses,’ Einstein wrote to Gutkind, ‘the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.'
Seriously, FLRW. For your example of a religious person you pick Emperor Cheeto and for your example of an atheist you pick a genius Nobel laureate. Well good thing you're not biased or anything.
Einstein did not consider himself an atheist btw.
"The word God is for me nothing"
Isn't that an Atheist?
Yes, you are an atheist, a non believer in God.
"The word God is for me nothing"
Isn't that an Atheist?
A bit of research would show you that he explicitly said he is not an atheist, identified as agnostic, and according to one biographer said, “In view of such harmony in the cosmos, which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.”
Einstein should not be the club with which you pummel theism.
You have to admit that religious people are dumb as fuck.
I know what I mean when I say it.
Stephen Hawking did not believe in God. He was an atheist and explicitly stated that there is no God, and that the universe was not created or directed by any higher power. Hawking believed that the laws of physics provide a more convincing explanation for the universe's origins than any religious or supernatural explanation.
I know, I know, all you religious people like to give money to Rev. Jim Bakker.
Well, you can lie to yourself all you want to, but you're not gonna push that off on anyone else.
Not sure what listing the name of other atheists does for anybody. The fact that Einstein or Hawking were atheists, or not, doesn't mean anything. Just like listing, Martin Luther King, Jr was Christian doesn't mean anything to anybody either.
