Keep It Real wrote:Psychopaths are missing a fundamental component of what it is to be a fully formed human being. No controversy there.

Empathy.

Corneel wrote:

Ironclad wrote:What's "atheism rewarded"?

That's when there is a God, but he's utterly aware that he didn't leave the slightest bit of evidence for his existence and accepts that atheism is the reasonable position and so you get a reward for that.

Yeah, if someone's going to push the idea that their god is enough of a capricious bastard to reward true believers and punish atheists it's at least worth pointing out that the reverse is a possibility in a Pascal's Wager scenario, even if they'd be unlikely to entertain it generally.

I hope it's the god of shits n giggles

Ironclad wrote:I hope it's the god of shits n giggles

It's more probably the Oh God of Hangovers.

atheists have weird understanding of allah,like thinking of allah as a pagan moon god where as the literal translation of allah means THE GOD.

To Christians, who have modernised and rationalised their god concept to shoehorn it in with the first world countries of today, other god concepts seem primitive and backward. Christianity has succumbed to the pressures of the modern world and had to dilute and reinvent itself over and over.

It is rather ironic that the reason they view other religions as primitive is that other religions have not become almost unrecognisable distortions of their former selves, ignoring large parts of their core texts, wheras Christianity has done exactly that.

How can an objective view see this as anything other than two different approaches to the same problem, the core texts of religion are increasingly incompatible with our modern understanding of reality. The two approaches are basically to either bury your head in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong or distort your dogma so it is a garbled version of its former self, and pretend nothing is wrong.

The third alternative is to recognise reality, and see how the supposedly divinely inspired and perfect texts are obviously no more than a product of their times, not of their god.

In one brain cell and out the other...

You mean they have more than one.

Dark energy wrote:atheists have weird understanding of allah,like thinking of allah as a pagan moon god where as the literal translation of allah means THE GOD.

The idea that Allah was originally a pagan Moon god is mostly spread among fundamentalist Christians.

NineBerry wrote:

Dark energy wrote:atheists have weird understanding of allah,like thinking of allah as a pagan moon god where as the literal translation of allah means THE GOD.

The idea that Allah was originally a pagan Moon god is mostly spread among fundamentalist Christians.

That doesn't necessarily invalidate it.

Dark energy wrote:atheists have weird understanding of allah,like thinking of allah as a pagan moon god where as the literal translation of allah means THE GOD.

No, we do not have a 'weird' understanding of Allah.

We are told by theists that God and Allah are different names for the same Abrahamic God. The fact that we have a non-belief in the existence of this 'god', is irrelevant to, er, 'understanding'.

Alan B wrote:

Dark energy wrote:atheists have weird understanding of allah,like thinking of allah as a pagan moon god where as the literal translation of allah means THE GOD.

No, we do not have a 'weird' understanding of Allah.

We are told by theists that God and Allah are different names for the same Abrahamic God. The fact that we have a non-belief in the existence of this 'god', is irrelevant to, er, 'understanding'.

Hear hear,you made your point,stop parroting it.

I suspect that whoever decided to make Allah an Abrahamic god is hated nowadays. ...they can't wash the Jewishness away, ever.

Dark energy wrote:

Alan B wrote:

Dark energy wrote:atheists have weird understanding of allah,like thinking of allah as a pagan moon god where as the literal translation of allah means THE GOD.

No, we do not have a 'weird' understanding of Allah.

We are told by theists that God and Allah are different names for the same Abrahamic God. The fact that we have a non-belief in the existence of this 'god', is irrelevant to, er, 'understanding'.

Hear hear,you made your point,stop parroting it.

'Hear hear' means you agree. Is that what you wanted to communicate? What makes you think you can tell other people what to say? You illustrate the double standards common in the behaviour of theists, though - others can't 'parrot' but you can keep on droning to your heart's content, apparently.

No,i am not allowed to say certain stuff because it will sound preachy while atheists are allowed to take the piss.

Everyone's allowed to take the piss, stop whining.

Dark Energy

You can take the piss as much as you like of what is posted as long as you don't insult the poster.

What atheists don't do, is preach atheism. It isn't necessary.

What atheists do do is to continually ask theists to provide evidence of their deity. Nothing else - besides taking the piss, that is.