cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/68752761 which was cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/64103917
I thought about saying “you know it’s a grift when they collect personal information and leak it.” According to their Bible, you don’t need an app to pray. They say church (or a covenant, I forget, it’s been 30+ years since I read the KJV) is when any two people come together to talk about Jesus (sorry!). So, where does an app fit in? And why does that app need your personally identifiable information (referred to as PII in industry). Wouldn’t an all-knowing God already have it?
But you don’t have to know it’s a grift… I feel like this is proof the Vatican (or whoever made this app on their behalf, and thus speak on their behalf… and the Pope allegedly speaks on God’s behalf) themselves know it’s a grift. Because why would they need your PII?
I know, fools and their money are soon parted… just saw this on /all and figured the Fediverse’s top Atheism comm should have it.
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.
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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”.
Its not special pleading if its ACTUALLY special.
We are not of a different nature. For man has the nature of man, and a pig the nature of a pig.
2. the basic or inherent features, character, or qualities of something
Example: helping them to realize the nature of their problems
But it’s not actually special, evidently. Evidently, it does not exist, and special pleading is your excuse for believing it.
I have the nature of me, you have the nature of you. It’s arbitrary, meaningless.
You haven’t answered anything. I can just say the nature of the universe is the universe. The nature of god is that he does not exist.
Try getting more specific.