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“We find [in the gospels] . . . a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications.”
—Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820.
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My favorite story in the Bible is where a disabled man asked Jesus to heal him, and Jesus asked to see his insurance card first. But the man was uninsured, so Jesus told him to get fucked and get a job.
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There’s a third option: Reject this insane religious fearmongering and live a free life without worrying about imaginary threats of eternal torture.
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I genuinely see no good reason to believe in a god.
I’ve heard the arguments, questioned the claims and examined the supposed evidence. None of it has convinced me.
A belief being ancient, popular or deeply personal doesn’t make it true.
I’m open to being proven wrong, but my standards of evidence aren’t changing just because religion is involved.
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Dear theists: You can usefully counter my disbelief by producing actual evidence for God that goes beyond mere hearsay, anecdote, and argument—attempting to diagnose my pride, anger, childhood, or motives simply confirms that you've run out of such evidence.
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Atheism requires no worship, scripture, rituals or belief in the supernatural.
You lot are so desperate to make atheism a religion because then you can pretend we’re all operating on faith.
Unfortunately for you, redefining atheism won’t make your creation story any more credible.
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Calling atheism a religion is like calling an empty witness stand a competing testimony.
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Atheism neither presents nor espouses any theory—atheism merely rejects or fails to accept the theory that any gods exist. That is all. Implying that atheism is, or needs be, anything more is a strawman. Theists love strawmen because they can't plausibly defend their own faith.
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Nobody chose humans to be the most intelligent species. It wasn’t design. It was evolution doing what evolution does. Intelligence gave our ancestors a survival advantage. Problem solving, communication and tool use helped us survive and reproduce. Over generations natural selection favoured those abilities.
We’re not the pinnacle of evolution. We’re not the main characters of the universe. We’re just one species whose circumstances favoured the development of exceptional intelligence.
