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Thread #150410 Message #3505424
Posted By: Stringsinger
18-Apr-13 - 03:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Non-belief in a god is not a religion
Subject: RE: BS: Non-belief in a god is not a religion
"All the science in the world is open to all the people - it's all consistant - no contradictions - except right at the edge of knowledge and understanding. That is Dawkins point."
Right as rain, Les! That's why non-belief can't be a religion. There's no certainty there, no faith. It's consistent because its tenets are provable unlike an airy fairy spirituality or a dogmatic clinging to an anachronistic religion.
The delusion is not about individuals at every plane of their lives, but only about their belief systems, particularly if they defend it by putting non-believers down. The act of degrading a non-believer such as Dawkins or any other because somehow you have a '"hurt feeling" about what they say is not rational. It's one thing to offer a debatable defense of religion but quite another to trash someone for emotional reasons because you don't like what they say. This "taking personal offense" is where religionists cry victimhood and destroy a debatable dialogue.
Many "experiences" are common hallucinations in mental wards. They are unverifiable.
This is where science steps in and reality begins.