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- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
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Causality can be interpreted as a series of gears. One thing is caused by the other.
Verses?
And the need is that of relying on other things to survive. If the sun disappeared, you would die, thus you depend on the sun. If all the arachnids and the sort died, the ecosystem would be rattled and we'd all die. We depend on other things to live. That is my evidence for this claim, as we can observe.
And to deny God's existence is to claim that what requires all (the universe, it depends on a lot of factors to survive) requires nothing (Does not require God to exist).
This is a logical contradiction.
If you say so. But that would include god, in that case.
The honest answer: we don't know. Probably not god, certainly not the christian god.
This is extremely reductive and unimaginative. What if we find a way to replace the light, warmth, vitamins etc we get from the sun? Heck, maybe we could even make a version that doesn't give us cancer, one-upping your fictional god.
This says nothing about the origins of the universe. It wasn't made for us, we evolved to survive.
No. Atheists are not making a claim. You are making a claim that god exists based on nothing but wishful thinking and a poor understanding of science. We deny that claim because there is no evidence to support it.
All you have is god of the gaps and special pleading. You have failed to convince me or anyone else with integrity that your god exists.
"poor understanding of science"
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Scientifically speaking, we have no evidence suggesting the existence of a god. How do you even define "god"? It is human wishful thinking every time.
If there was sufficient evidence, I would still be a believer. But when I am as honest as I can be, I see nothing at all in this universe to suggest a god's existence, much less the christian god, who is described in contradictory ways because biblical authors were not consistent with themselves or with each other. Loving + powerful = no need for suffering. God is unimaginative. Stupid. Cruel. Non-existent.
There is, there have been many scientifically proven miracles
Bullshit. See my other comment.
Absolutely. You identify the process of evolution based on evidence (well done, some theists can't even manage that), and then you attribute it to a creator despite there being no reason to make that jump.
Faith is weakness, an assumption made in the absence of fact and stubbornly held despite what any evidence might suggest.
You worship the god of the gaps. "We don't know, so it's probably god." But it's probably not. "We don't know" means it could be anything. The odds of your baseless guess being correct are virtually zero.
Meanwhile, real people are being harmed as a result of your beliefs.
When you see a painting with the artist's signature, what is more likely?
That there is an artist that painted it? or the brushes of paint rolled around the paper in a certain way due to the wind and it was created?
There is no artist's signature on our universe. Stop making stupid false equivalences.
The gears extending infinitely would be a Reductio Ad Absurdum, so one gear must be the start of it all.
???
Definitely not within your lifespan, and definitely not fast enough if the sun actually disappeared.
I am making a claim by saying "X isnt real"
So god also requires a cause. The only alternative is special pleading.
Why did god choose to make a sun that gives us cancer?
Atheists are "making the claim" that we don't believe your claim, because there is no argument, evidence, or reason supporting your claim. You not only assume there is a god, you then assume to understand why he created suffering, even though you have not been able to explain it. He cannot be both powerful and loving, if he existed at all.
No, he doesn't. He is of a different nature.
Why do you think its ok to eat chicken but not human flesh? Because we of a different nature than chickens.
Thus, God is also of a different nature than us.
Special pleading.
Because a society that tolerates needless cannibalism is unsustainable. And because prions. But also, I don't think it's okay to eat chicken.
Special pleading. Aren't we each of a "different nature", as individuals? Define "nature".