Re: CLEAR INFORMATION PROVING NO GODS.

One fine day in alt.atheism, "Malcolm McLean" <regniztar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote: 

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> "Uncle Vic" <address@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> One fine day in alt.atheism, "Malcolm McLean"
>> <regniztar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> The truth is that a lot of atheist arguments boil down to what I
>>> call the "writing on the Moon" argument. If God exists, surely He'd
>>> make it completely untenable to hold the position that He doesn't
>>> exist. To an extent that's a legitimate argument, but a riposte can
>>> be "if there was no God surely we'd have made belief in Him totally
>>> untenable by now".
>>
>> Unfortunately, the believers have fool-proofed the arguments by
>>
>> 1. Making it a mortal sin to question your beliefs.
>> 2. Prescribing a punishment for disbelief so unfoundedly horrible
>> that no one would dare lose the faith.
>> 3. Making examples of heretics and unbelievers by puni****ng them 
>> publically
>> and horribly. (Of course, they cannot do this legally any more.)
>> 4. Early childhood brainwa****ng.
>> 5. Blocking the teaching of the sciences which plant seeds of doubt
>> by contradicting religious teaching, then supplying undeniable
>> evidence to sup****t it.
>> 6. Rationalizing (ie changing) the dogma itself to conform to that
>> which we
>> know about reality wich contradicts the old dogma.
>>
>> It's not working, though.  Educated people are leaving the church in
>> droves.  Some day there will be a world (less the Middle East) free
>> of the shackles of religion.  Not in my lifetime, sadly...
>>
> Either the arguments are fool-proofed or educated people are leaving
> in droves. Take your pick.

They are not mutually exclusive.

> 
> In fact the intellectually tenable religion, liberal Christianity, is
> losing people in droves. This is because it has been artificially
> welded to secular ethics in ***uality and other areas. A church that
> ordains practising homo***uals isn't very convincing.
> 

Neither is one which, in this day and age, preaches that evolution is 
just a belief.

-- 
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped 
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Convicted by Earthquack.