Atheism Gets the Darwin Award!

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    "Osama bin Laden had more offspring than atheists Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Hawking, Bill Nye, Isaac Asimov, and Sam Harris combined!

    Moreover, atheists abandon their religion more frequently than any other members of any religion do. Only 30% of atheists brought up that way remain atheists. How "illogical" and "irrational" of them to claim logic and rationality when it is so readily abandoned around the world.
     
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    The religion of atheism is fraught with the problem of being false.
     
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    A Christian Leftist. Oh my. And a fat one at that, trying to be funny....
     
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    I am funny, Chem, and I am a fat centrist, not a skinny incel.
     
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    The Founders were neo-capitalists and property owners. They were no more 'libertarians' than you are correct about the Founders or me. I am as centrist as one can be in this country.
     
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    Atheism by definition is not a religion.
     
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    Most of our founders were radical liberals.
     
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    That's what all the Leftists say. But then again, mendacity is the métier of Leftists.
     
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    It is a world-view, everyone has one.
     
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    It isn’t even a world view. It’s the lack of belief in a god or gods.

    Lack of belief in the tooth fairy isn’t a world view either. It’s the exact same thing.
     
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    The Founding Fathers had an eclectic combination of views. Guys like Madison and Washington believed in a strong federal government with a standing army. Guys like Jefferson believed the opposite.
     
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    Why do you feel the need to tell anyone not claiming your positions to be "Leftist". Is it a means of insult projection or defensive positioning? I have been called everything from a Libt@rd to a RINO amongst many other inaccuracies but was a registered Republican and conservative until Trump changed the meaning for all intent and purpose. In essence people who think as you seem to are driving us away from you in a self fulfilling prophecy. Likely, you will now deny my politics regardless of the many years of postings here that confirm it....
     
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    So all "world-views" are equally valid and equally moral and virtuous? Mother Teresa's "world-view" was no better than Jeffrey Epstein's or Ted Bundy's, the mass murderer?
     
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    Not according to stupid judges..
     
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    It seems to me that Intelligence would have to begin in fundamental or nearly fundamental energy and almost certainly could not possibly come into existence first..... in four dimensional space and time........
    where electromagnetism, gravity, weak and strong nuclear forces operate in merely four dimensions?????

    www.CarbonBias.blogspot.ca/
     
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    This guy is really funny!!!!

    I wonder what he would think of the idea of a significant percentage of Atheists.......
    actually being liars..... who are in actually Theistic Satanists like John Ramirez once was but.........

    they have been told by Satan to not admit publicly to being Satanists.....
    they were told to lie and say that they were Atheists!

    https://johnramirez.org/about/bio

    https://johnramirez.org/media/videos

     
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    What does it profit a man if he gains the world but loses his soul.

    Bernie Madoff, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, to name but three, each one with a more hideous, more evil crime than the one before him.
     
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    So it is a false religion which makes it not a religion. Thanks for clearing that up!
     
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    You twisted his words. He did NOT say "atheism is a false religion." He said it is "false" - it presents one lie after another, beginning with the compound lie that atheists are so *smart* and *logical* (that) they could not POSSIBLY be wrong. The intellectual premise is erroneous on its face, but even if it were correct, it does not make these claimed "intellectuals" right. The Unabomber is a genius. He taught mathematics at Berkeley. He simply retired to a rathole cabin in Montana where he assembled bombs to kill victims he hated. But environmentalism - he dug that.
     
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    To claim to be an atheist is both illogical and unreasonable on its face since they have no evidence God does not exist, and most have no clue how to prove a negative though anyone that understands logic and reason knows that its easy to prove a negative.
     
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    wow, you would put the twists in a pretzel to shame.
     
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    And we can’t prove Unicorns or the Easter Bunny don’t exist either. But since you claim proving a negative is easy please be so kind as to prove Unicorns do not exist.
     
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    Mr Wood is indeed extremly brillant.
    I'm atheist and I can't really countersay what he says. Atheism tend to lead to narcissism and hedonism, which are long-therm suicide (not implying there is no narcissist and hedonist among religious people). Unbelief was quite common apparently in the late Rome, and he didn't ended well.
    However, it don't prove atheist as wrong, just as not unviable as a society model.
     
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    please refrain from countering with strawman arguments.
     
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    maybe you should learn the definition of strawman arguments instead of ducking a perfectly apt comparison. Or perhaps you would care to explain why they are not comparable.
     
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