I have to agree that there is some level of ignorance to arguing about religion. Especially when you're being that hostile, crypto. I mean I agree with most of what you say, but when you call someone stupid, they stop listening to you, rendering the argument useless, and a waste of time. This doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but all it does is start conflict and flaming. Any argument on religion that doesn't involve flaming, usually just ends when someone gets bored. I'm sure that a majority of the time, nobody's opinion changes, online their disposition towards the other debater.Sure. I usually argue for the sake of argument, not because I expect to convince anyone, though that would be a pleasant surprise. But it baffles me that people read this thread, ignore and completely fail to rebut the huge post I made in it, and then spew the exact same nonsense that I argued against in that post. I'm not going to say that I don't deserve to be criticized for hostility, but why do I get castigated when things like this—
All I know is that science will never prove that god does not exist because of the question "What if God made Science?"—are let off the hook?
I mean that believing in programmers is the same as believing in God in that there's no evidence for it.no, because i don't actually believe this, i just think it's a very real possibility. and even if it is true, these programmers wouldn't be gods per say, but just different people with different motivations and mindsets, but still flawed.i am an atheist. however, i am extremely receptive to the possibility that we are all simulations on a massively powerful computer, and that what we might consider "gods" might simply be our programmers, who, to the uninformed and easily influenced ancient masses, might be seen as gods due to their abilities to warp and manipulate reality seemingly at will.That is equivalent to believing in God.
SERIUSLY!What the absolute fuck are you doing in this thread? Why don't you tell everyone to stop bringing up stem cell research, or global warming, or terrorism, or poverty, or genocide, because debates about those topics only cause "WAR"? Once again, nobody is forcing you to read this thread. You have every right to stay out of it. So why the fuck do you come into the thread, ignore everything posted in it, and repeatedly make posts bitching at us to stop using our brains while you let your own brain fester in a heap of your own shit?
We need to ban religion topics because then the science types and aethiest get on and start yelling. THERE IS NO PROOF OF GOD THERE FOR HE DOES NOT EXSIST! While The religious people are saying. But what if he just wants you to think that way?
FOR Heavens/Hells/Gods/Aethiesm/Sciences..... FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY STOP BRINGING RELIGION UP!!!!
Religion + Science = WAR.