Explain Your Religious Views or Lack Thereof

[Menassa]

Not all religions demands belief without evidence.

All theistic ones do.

Not really, you just have to know where to look.

[Bentrada]

Keep your pants on, I know how long I've been here.

That doesn't make it okay.

I don't want the forums to turn into the YouTube comment section.

[The Orson Empire]

You can be religious and accept scientific facts.

Like theistic evolution? Yea no.

At its core, religion promotes believing in something that you can't prove with science, like souls and magic men in the sky.

And if people want to believe that, then they will. Banning religion is counterproductive.

[Menassa]

Ah, so we have a steerah.

[Menassa]

You can be religious and accept scientific facts.

Like theistic evolution? Yea no.

That's actually a good example of people being religious and accepting scientific fact.

[The USOT]

All theistic ones do.

Not really, you just have to know where to look.

Such as?

[The Carlisle]

Like theistic evolution? Yea no.

At its core, religion promotes believing in something that you can't prove with science, like souls and magic men in the sky.

And if people want to believe that, then they will. Banning religion is counterproductive.

And I don't want to ban religion. I want it to wear away to nonexistance and I want to help with the process, not through legislation but through activism, spreading knowledge, and promoting science.

[The Parkus Empire]

Keep your pants on, I know how long I've been here.

That doesn't make it okay.

Gee, Dad, I never thought about it that way.

[Bentrada]

Ah, so we have a steerah.

[Menassa]

And if people want to believe that, then they will. Banning religion is counterproductive.

And I don't want to ban religion. I want it to wear away to nonexistance and I want to help with the process, not through legislation but through activism, spreading knowledge, and promoting science.

Well, I would like to walk up walls, but that's just not going to happen.

[Ljvonia]

I'm an apatheist and consider myself avovedly antireligious.

The act of believing without evidence is tantamount to intellectual suicide - and thus organisations that advocate this are harming humanity. To me there can be no peace until this problem is solved, meaning I will never respect the nonsense commonly known as "freedom of religion". The concept of religion as such has to go the way of the dinosaur, hopefully sooner rather than later. This tends to disturb some people, but the concept of "tolerance" is imho a very flawed one: to advance as a group, a nation, a species, we have to work for it - refusing to do so is sabotage.

As for the (to me purely intellectual and philosophical) god-question: there's enough to be asked after that has far more relevance than this. I refuse to waste my time with nonsense like gods and fairies.

[The Parkus Empire]

I'm an atheist from lack of evidence and my acceptance of science and probability. I'm an anthitheist because I have yet to find anything to convince me that the world would would not be better off without religion.

Some religiously inspired art is pretty fantastic.

[Albul]

smiley spam

If you have nothing to say, then go to another thread.

[The Orson Empire]

And if people want to believe that, then they will. Banning religion is counterproductive.

And I don't want to ban religion. I want it to wear away to nonexistance and I want to help with the process, not through legislation but through activism, spreading knowledge, and promoting science.

Good luck with that. Religion will outlive us, our children, and our children's children.

[The Steel Magnolia]

Believing is good for me. It's a great source of peace and security, relieves stress when I most need it. All in all, it's really been quite fantastic for my mental health.

[Bentrada]

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If you have nothing to say, then go to another thread.

I said something, can I stay?

[Uelvan]

And if people want to believe that, then they will. Banning religion is counterproductive.

And I don't want to ban religion. I want it to wear away to nonexistance and I want to help with the process, not through legislation but through activism, spreading knowledge, and promoting science.

What harm does religion do you in this modern world of secularism? What does someone believing in something harmless like, a god and angels, do to affect your life? Those who reject science on a religious grounds probably were never going to be scientists in the first place, and so what does it matter if they have any knowledge in it or not?

[Menassa]

I'm an atheist from lack of evidence and my acceptance of science and probability. I'm an anthitheist because I have yet to find anything to convince me that the world would would not be better off without religion.

Some religiously inspired art is pretty fantastic.

It also makes people happy.

Which could be a reason to want to ban it, they hate to see others happy with something so simple.

[Dyakovo]

All theistic ones do.

Not really, you just have to know where to look.

So you can provide verifiable evidence for a deity?

[The Kingdom of Nea Hellas]

And if people want to believe that, then they will. Banning religion is counterproductive.

And I don't want to ban religion. I want it to wear away to nonexistance and I want to help with the process, not through legislation but through activism, spreading knowledge, and promoting science.

And what about a specific religion like Greek Orthodox Christianity which is tied with cultural and historical background? You want to go around and take that away? So you can destroy the cultures of those peoples? Is that really fair?

[The Steel Magnolia]

I don't try to talk about my religious beliefs too much here, but I am a Muslim. I believe, not because of any evidence, but because I want to.

Also this.

[The Parkus Empire]

I'm an apatheist and consider myself avovedly antireligious.

The act of believing without evidence is tantamount to intellectual suicide - and thus organisations that advocate this are harming humanity. To me there can be no peace until this problem is solved, meaning I will never respect the nonsense commonly known as "freedom of religion". The concept of religion as such has to go the way of the dinosaur, hopefully sooner rather than later.

As for the (to me purely intellectual and philosophical) god-question: there's enough to be asked after that has far more relevance than this. I refuse to waste my time with nonsense like gods and fairies.

Outlawing religion will just make young people more curious and interested in it

[Ashmoria]

I am an atheist because there is no god.

[Menassa]

Not really, you just have to know where to look.

So you can provide verifiable evidence for a deity?

Of course I can?

Will I?

Probably not.

[The Steel Magnolia]

Not really, you just have to know where to look.

So you can provide verifiable evidence for a deity?

I think you're missing the point of belief. It's only belief if you don't know.