* your life’s meaningless without god, is it? i’m very sorry to hear it.

What’s so wrong about people finding meaning through different avenues? Can you honestly say his life is any worse than yours because he finds meaning in something you don’t?

You’re not really helping with this point, but this is also quite clearly the sort of thing that ignorant theists say to sarcastically attack atheists. Skip it.

You’re not helping counter his point with the attitude you’re taking in this post, honestly.

No it ****ing well does not. If you believe in a lack of free-will (which, as a technicality, I do – it’s incompatible with the theory of cause and effect), that’s neither here nor there; but if you believe that that means you don’t have to think for yourself, then you’re a ****ing cretin and you deserve whatever sticky end you earn for yourself, and also you don’t understand what ‘free-will’ means.

It doesn’t mean you don’t understanding what free will means, it means you’re using your lack of belief in it to excuse your actions.

Free-will in the context of causality is pretty narrowly defined. It’s the concept that were the entire universe to re-run from the beginning, presenting every person with exactly the same stimulus at every point in their lives, that some how you would have the ability to jump out of your own brain and change your mind on something that you already decided. Bull ****. What a stupid idea.

Don’t worry, I agree.

replying to a bunch of trolling stuff i said

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On the gay issue though, if religion believes homosexuality to be immoral, it’s not a stretch for the belief that homosexuals will pbum on a lack of morals to their children.

Again, this is only relevant in the context of society. If god exists it certainly wouldn’t give a **** about microbes as tiny as us! If we wipe ourselves out, the order of the universe continues uninterrupted. Which is both awesome, tragic and COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT on the grand scale of the universe. That’s why worshipping mankind is probably a much better idea in the long run if you value being a part of this species. (And if you don’t: go go gadget emoblade!)

But the bible says God specifically made us. It doesn’t matter how big the universe is, he made us and is watching us. He made the universe for us.