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It's literally their arguments in a nutshell. It's either Faith or My book says. They can't have anything else otherwise they'd have produced it over the past 2000 years.
It's the same people believing in Ghosts. You're not going to find some Ghost believer Einstein that'll blow your mind with his reasoning on why he believes in ghosts...
Way to go, reducing the worldview of literally every religious person on the planet that is or has ever been alive.
It's simply a strawman. Some people might have argued like youdo, but those are simply buffoons and/or assholes.
If you have a better argument please share. I've heard your response a million times too.
"Oh only stupid people believe on faith alone!"
Ok so you have actual proof of God and why believe?
And before too long we'll back to faith or the Bible says.
I don't know if you are religious and want to actually defend your faith or just trying to white knight on here.
Either way please provide proof of God to I'm all ears.
I'm not religious and you're constantly misrepresenting or simply reducing the reasons why people have faith. That way it's easier for you to attack them. That's what a strawman is.
Religion is an alive feature of humanity and what was consensus in e.g. christian faith 400 years ago has been replaced within the church and the faith of the individual believers. Religion isn't about "proof of existence" anymore, since it stopped being about answering questions that have been answered by science in the meantime.
Contemporary religion is about philosophy and ethics. Claiming that religion can't answer questions it's not trying to answer doesn't proove that religion is moot.
It's like someone asking why some people like coffee and you can't understand why people like coffee, because if you can't survive on coffee alone. The whole premise is outdated.
I guess you're thinking about american evangelical lunatics and substitute all of spirituality with them. Christianity (and radical islamism) is some weird, imperialist perversion of faith. Forcing other people to boin your religion, or else is not the only mode, spirituality is expressed in the world.
When you're speaking in such a condescending manner of religious people when you actually mean evangelical lunatics just makes you seem arrogant and keeps you from actually learning anything about your fellow human beings.
I'm not religious and you're constantly misrepresenting or simply reducing the reasons why people have faith. That way it's easier for you to attack them. That's what a strawman is.
Religion is an alive feature of humanity and what was consensus in e.g. christian faith 400 years ago has been replaced within the church and the faith of the individual believers. Religion isn't about "proof of existence" anymore, since it stopped being about answering questions that have been answered by science in the meantime.
Contemporary religion is about philosophy and ethics. Claiming that religion can't answer questions it's not trying to answer doesn't proove that religion is moot.
It's like someone asking why some people like coffee and you can't understand why people like coffee, because if you can't survive on coffee alone. The whole premise is outdated.
I guess you're thinking about american evangelical lunatics and substitute all of spirituality with them. Christianity (and radical islamism) is some weird, imperialist perversion of faith. Forcing other people to boin your religion, or else is not the only mode, spirituality is expressed in the world.
When you're speaking in such a condescending manner of religious people when you actually mean evangelical lunatics just makes you seem arrogant and keeps you from actually learning anything about your fellow human beings.
That's a very long post, to say "I have no proof..."
I reiterate. If what I'm claiming their reasons are is wrong, give me the reasoning that they are using that I am missing. Stop telling me I'm wrong and show that I am wrong by providing a reason to believe in God that's not faith or the Bible says.
This is irrelevant to the discussion and also just your personal opinion.
Yea, pretty sure the majority of religious people are going to disagree with you. Religious believers believe in a God and a supernatural realm. What you are saying is simply wrong for the majority of religious followers.
Horrific analogy. Coffee is real and we can both touch and taste it. Also, coffee doesn't command us to stone gays or see women as second class citizens. Just horrific analogy.
I'm not talking about any religion in particular. They all share the same tenants that I'm attacking here. Belief without good reason.
For some reason you feel that me speaking the truth and demanding evidence for religious belief is condescending. When you claim to have all the answers via your imaginary friend and you seek to impose your views on others, I'm going to call you out on it.
This will be my last reply unless your next reply actually provides evidence, as demanded at the beginning of this thread. Otherwise have a great day.
Yeah. I rejected your command and didnt aim to proof anything.
Umm... No, it's neither? I was explaining how you're asking the wrong question which religion doesn't aim to answer.
I can't. It's faith. Faith is the reason to believe in a god. Never claimed anything different.
You're just pulling stuff out of your ass that you can't possibly have any data to. I've had productive discussions with people who studied theology.
Yeah, didn't think that you'd get it, tbh. I was trying to explain that you're making a cathegorical error by demanding proof of a god. Separate your domains of inquire, my dude.
Bullshit. You're dunking on abrahamic religions ("stone gays") and use these to extrapolate to any religion. You have no idea about paganism, buddhism, sikh, shintoism, etc.
What is the "truth" you're supposedly speaking? That there is no scientific proof that something supernatural exists? Wow. What a well of wisdom you are. Did you know that you can be a secular buddhist?
You're confusing christianity (and maybe islam) with every other religion again. Judaism doesn't have missionaries. Neither do hundreds of other religions.
Don't threaten re with a good time.
I'm not religious and you're constantly misrepresenting or simply reducing the reasons why people have faith. That way it's easier for you to attack them. That's what a strawman is.
Religion is an alive feature of humanity and what was consensus in e.g. christian faith 400 years ago has been replaced within the church and the faith of the individual believers. Religion isn't about "proof of existence" anymore, since it stopped being about answering questions that have been answered by science in the meantime.
Contemporary religion is about philosophy and ethics. Claiming that religion can't answer questions it's not trying to answer doesn't proove that religion is moot.
It's like someone asking why some people like coffee and you can't understand why people like coffee, because if you can't survive on coffee alone. The whole premise is outdated.
I guess you're thinking about american evangelical lunatics and substitute all of spirituality with them. Christianity (and radical islamism) is some weird, imperialist perversion of faith. Forcing other people to boin your religion, or else is not the only mode, spirituality is expressed in the world.
When you're speaking in such a condescending manner of religious people when you actually mean evangelical lunatics just makes you seem arrogant and keeps you from actually learning anything about your fellow human beings.
Having welcomed into my home and talked to quite a number of people preaching door to door (and having even participated in an organised discussion between Physics Degree pupils and a preacher of some Baptist church) I can confirm it's invariably a logic chain that is either circular or ends up in some supposedly "truth" about which there can be no questioning (aka an axiom) the most basic one being "it says so in the Bible".
Either that or it's some poor old ladies who really can't string much of a logic chain of though (it's pretty much direct to "it says so in this book").
And it's all perfectly acceptable in one's Personal Sphere. It's just not an actual argument to justify anything outside the Theological and Personal Spheres, such as, for example, having the Law impose one's Morality on others or having one's country managed in one way rather than a different way.
For me Religion is absolutelly fine as long as it stops at the boundary of the religious person's life and choices, and does not go into shaping other people's life and choices: believers can feel free to try and convert others so that they shape their own life and choices the same way, just not to force their own morality on others.