7b7cc3 No.4977
Since 70 percent of the heads of college philosophy departments have rejected religion, and they love posting their subversive articles on infidels.org, what is your favorite article?
https://infidels.org/kiosk/editorschoice.html
I'll go with "The Argument from Mundanity" for a comprehensive attack on doctrines that envoke perfection, which theists aren't aware of.
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7b7cc3 No.4978
>The reference to the first century should immediately grab one's attention. It is easy to forget just when modern religions, such as Christianity, were invented. The Bible was written some 2000 years ago (obviously with some texts older and some more recent). During the time Jesus is alleged to have walked the earth, our species suffered from embarrassing, comprehensive ignorance. The most basic of scientific truths eluded our distant ancestors, who concocted a vastly smaller universe of which the earth was the center, a demon theory of disease, and a climatic paradigm from which rain-dances sprang. The most knowledgeable individual in the first century now would be a pitiable fool--an ancestral curiosity.
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7b7cc3 No.4979
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7b7cc3 No.4980
>>4978
So clever, am rotfl rite now. XD
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7b7cc3 No.4986
>>4978
"The bible isn't a science textbook" is by far the worst argument I've ever heard
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7b7cc3 No.5039
Never heard of that site before. Will check it out and post here if an article strikes me as particularly noteworthy.
the religious person's mindset is not very intuitive to me, though, which makes it impossible to give it a fair trial.
>>4978
>It is easy to forget just when modern religions, such as Christianity, were invented
It really isn't. In fact, it's quite often used as an argument to strengthen a religion's claim to truth and/or authority. Even in cases when certain denominations have only existed for a very brief time, they still very deliberately ride the coattails of words with thousands of years of connotation.
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7b7cc3 No.5068
>>4977
>70 percent of the heads of college philosophy departments have rejected religion
Nice argument from authority fallacy
>comprehensive attack on doctrines that envoke perfection, which theists aren't aware of
>which theists aren't aware of
>is literally the same regurgitated tripe new-age fedoras trot out in every debate
The Argument from Mundanity article essentially boils down to
>God walked the earth and he didn't bother to tell us what we eventually find under a microscope. He clearly musn't have been omniscient *le haha* xD
>Conveniently ignores the fact that Christ gave wisdom that couldn't be found through the scientific method, viz, the entire bloody point of his coming.
New Atheism was a complete mistake. I don't think atheism, by definition, is irrational but the modern day proponents are just awful.
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7b7cc3 No.5074
>>Conveniently ignores the fact that Christ gave wisdom that couldn't be found through the scientific method, viz, the entire bloody point of his coming.
He gave no such wisdom. Name one thing he taught us that we didn't already know, or which a philosopher such as Buddha hadn't already came up with. All he gave us is fear of hell which has hardly improved the world.
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7b7cc3 No.5075
>>5074
>All he gave us is fear of hell
Actually that was the translators, "Hades" does not remotely translate into hell.
Then again I probably shouldn't be criticizing this because I'm a atheist.
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962f35 No.5099
>>5068
>Conveniently ignores the fact that Christ gave wisdom that couldn't be found through the scientific method, viz, the entire bloody point of his coming
Such as? Nevermind, you've got nothing. His best philosophies were plagiarized from asian teachers like Buddha via the Persians.
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111685 No.5161
What a load of crap. How can you deny religion without first presuming a definition for God?
If one explores God semantically and connects to science, it's pretty easy to be "religious"
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111685 No.5218
>>5075
>atheist
>not being agnostic
ISHIGGYDIGGY
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d9fc44 No.5230
>>5161
>How can you deny religion without first presuming a definition for God?
By denying the definitions offered by religions. Or their vague assertions, if they lack a definition.
Suspending belief seems perfectly sufficient.
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74f4ed No.5231
>>5230
Well then that's denying a specific religion (due to lack of coherency or something)
but one can't "deny" a proper definition that's delusional
you can invalidate a definition though.
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cd71d3 No.5233
>>5231
You can assert that it is merely a theoretical definition.
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111685 No.5234
>>5233
literally everything is
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c30a32 No.5286
The counterargument is Jordan Peterson. A fortiori if you don't have a love affair with truncating your reasoning once you find an answer you like. He's merely the most obvious and direct counterexample, there's been several nukes for busting the atheist bunker floating around the web for years now.
That said, JBP also shows that Christians are incredibly awful at being Christian. Turns out even Aquinas is fedora-tier nonsense. There's even noticeable fedora-ism in Augustine. Being shit at this is old, and it's always been fedora-on-fedora arguments.
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