Re: What do you think about atheists?

[bob young]

Christian wrote:

> x-no-archive: yes
>
> I think atheists are poor people who don't have a meaning in
> their lives.
>
> What do you think about atheists?

I think atheists [like me] are people who are capable of
thinking clearly without wearing blinkers [blinders] whilst
unaffected by primitive superstitions.

What do you think about people who believe in an old book that
has this kind of nonsense in it?

The universe revolves around the earth.
Stars are pinpricks in the heavens.
The world is flat (and on pillars)
Bats are a kind of bird.
Rabbits chew their cud.
There is enough water to flood the entire planet
Women were created from a man's rib
Rainbows are a promise from God

[Acknowledgements to 'James, Seattle']

and an officer of a religion who makes a statement like this:

"The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the
universe nor immovable, but
moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both
philosophically and theologically
false, and at the least an error of faith."
[Catholic Church's decision against Galileo Galilei]

Bob
Humanist, atheist, realist, sentimentalist Brit.
Member of S.M.A.S.H.
(Sarcastic Middle-aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor)

Man creates his gods in his own image;
and then spends the rest of his life
manipulating them to his heart's content

[Lee]

"Christian" <Chri...@BIBLE.BIBLE> wrote in message
news:gq18ic$3sm$1...@aioe.org...

> x-no-archive: yes
>
> I think atheists are poor people who don't have a meaning in
> their lives.
>
> What do you think about atheists?
>
>

I think that atheist are more switched on and tend not to put things off
thinking that they may do them later in some mythical unproven life after
death.

[oldernow]

On 2009-03-22, bob young <alasp...@netvigator.com> wrote:

> What do you think about people who believe in an old book that
> has this kind of nonsense in it?

That they possibly understand that:

- not all verbiage is always literal

- it makes sense for authors to speak to readers in the context of
the thoughts/beliefs regarding the nature of reality in/of the time

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