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Old Apr 28, 2008, 01:42 am   #5 (permalink) (top)
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Faith requires instruction, since it isn't something instinctive.
Brainwashing is a method of instruction, not a side effect.
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Atheists are led to believe they are the cause of grief and through the path of secularism a better world is obtainable.
They are not led to believe they are the cause of grief simply because they don't have the black and white forces of good and evil that Christianity uses to explain it.
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What it must be like to be a practicing Muslim moving into a secular northern European country. Feelings of isolation when surrounded by people who have a vast difference in belief.
Nobody is telling them to become atheist. Nobody is denying their right to have faith. If anything this only occurs because they're losing the sense of community that religion uses to manipulate.
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How can God send Babies to hell!!!! And other such ideals. Attacking faith using extreme examples that don't use logic but only raw emotion to attempt and push a point.
I'm confused how that is an illogical question. Maybe babies aren't the best example, but how about somebody mentally retarted? They don't get a chance to believe in God.
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The demand that certain absolute truths be accepted by all. It's hard to talk with others when they demand you stay on a certain page and accept even ideals you don't agree with. It's easy to breed atheists when you enforce the acceptance of only select, secular friendly concepts. It's the same as saying people are free to believe what they want in private but they all must accept God cannot logically exist.
If the person doesn't accept that God existing is illogical then they aren't an atheist. That's not manipulation, that's the underlying belief of atheism.
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Appeals that religion could only be valid if it equally treated everyone the same. Everyone goes to heaven even unbelievers in which case everyone might as well be an atheist.
Nobody deserves eternal suffering, even for any crime committed here on Earth. To think somebody should be condemned to eternal suffering simply because they don't believe in God is ridiculous.


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