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Well if you did ask him I am almost most certain that you wouldn't get a response.

If it makes you feel good then so be it. But one could have a relationship with a imaginary friend that makes them feel good, but this wouldn't mean that the friend actually existed.

What I would...

They weren't intolerant because they were atheist. They were intolerant because they were communist.

One thing I would like to add is that being critical of something isn't the same as being intolerant. One must not forget that until relatively recently if one dared criticise religion they would end...

@donks - Why not intolerance to genital mutilation of infants? :p

To be truly tolerant you have to tolerate the intolerant.

You don't have to go into the tenth dimension to make extraordinary claims. Have you not heard about the china teapot full of steaming hot morality that is in orbit between the Earth and Mars? It's...

Perhaps we shall need a new thread called 'Converts coner'?

You mean in the same way we don't have the 'means' to see the fairies at the bottom of the garden?

Humans have been on this planet for about 200,000 years. Yet god has supposedly only shown his hand once, around 2000 years ago in some very dubiously recorded events only in the middle east.

I...

Thanking the person who cooked/paid for the meal would be good manners, but one would do this because they are a decent person, not because they want to please god.

Most of the atheists I know...

If you think you have witnessed a miracle there are two possible reasons:

1) The laws of nature and the universe have temporarily been suspended in your favour

or

2) You are either under a...

What?

If being rational relies on second hand knowledge then what on earth is relying on the bible? A book based on 3rd or 4th hand tales of different myths.



Christianity is humble?
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No, Just no.

Leaving what we don't understand to be in the hands of the supernatural is ignorance.

I just find that explanation/argument inadequate. It simply doesn't answer the question of where that 'being' got its morality from.

If morality had one source it would suggest that morals are...

I agree. One does not need to read Alice in Wonderland to know that it is not true.



No, just no.

What you are basically saying here is that you wouldn't like a politician who can think for...

Indeed, the more I learn about different religions the more odd religious beliefs appear to me.

That is why Dawkins really dislikes children being labelled a 'Christian child' or a 'Muslim child'. You wouldn't label a child of tory parents a 'conservative child'.

It would if religious leaders realise that their beliefs should only govern their own lives and not everyone elses.

BBC News - Catholic cardinal criticises gay marriages plan

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Dawkins.

I'm unhappy with the options. I'm an atheist because I don't believe in god.

I can't disprove that god exists. Atheism isn't not believing because you have evidence that god doesn't exist, it is...