Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

[dkamm65]

there's no 100% backing behind religion OR atheism. neither is sensible to put your belief into, lol.

what.

Atheism is a lack of a belief. You could also call it the position that thinks extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (gods).

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[Visage]

knowing from "reality" still isn't requiring evidence, it'd more signify a lack of proper evidence. science doesn't use perceived reality as proof for a reason

and i updated the OP with two good videos on Open Mindedness and Coincidences

The burden of proof video is the best one put that one on there.

[Böltster]

there's no 100% backing behind religion OR atheism. neither is sensible to put your belief into, lol.

that's pretty damn subjective

it could be argued that athiesm is the more sensible purely on the basis that it encourages requiring evidence and open-mindedness.

I think there's a problem with that since you people are so hell-bent on getting me not to believe in my stupid fairy tale.

I haven't really been participating in your argument but you can't claim they're doing anything wrong when you're sitting on the other side of the fence yelling back.

The burden of proof video is the best one put that one on there.

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[Sheath]

there's no 100% backing behind religion OR atheism. neither is sensible to put your belief into, lol.

Its not sensible to believe, and its not sensible to not believe?

Uh. Not sure you uh... what?

[Aces]

that's pretty damn subjective

it could be argued that athiesm is the more sensible purely on the basis that it encourages requiring evidence and open-mindedness.
I haven't really been participating in your argument but you can't claim they're doing anything wrong when you're sitting on the other side of the fence yelling back.
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They're pretty damn persistant about my belief and interrogating my belief because it doesn't fit theirs?

I'm defending myself.

But I should probably stop because it's getting a little irritating and today has been many mixed emotions.

[Böltster]

They're pretty damn persistant about my belief and interrogating my belief because it doesn't fit theirs?

I'm defending myself.

But I should probably stop because it's getting a little irritating and today has been many mixed emotions.

Again, if you weren't here to yell back, there wouldn't be any replies. If you're comfortable and secure in what you believe, you can leave the thread because you're not going to find any sanctuary here.

[Aces]

Again, if you weren't here to yell back, there wouldn't be any replies. If you're comfortable and secure in what you believe, you can leave the thread because you're not going to find any sanctuary here.

Okay, thanks.

[RagnaTheBroedge]

funny fact: a very slight majority (just over half) of the kids in my honors and accel classes say they consider themselves "heavily religious." it is very perplexing. the remainder has a majority in itself of kids who consider themselves "atheists," and then a more or less even minority of theists and, as they agreed to call it, non-dedicated followers of various religions.

Again, if you weren't here to yell back, there wouldn't be any replies. If you're comfortable and secure in what you believe, you can leave the thread because you're not going to find any sanctuary here.

boooo

[Headcrab Zombie]

funny fact: a very slight majority (just over half) of the kids in my honors and accel classes say they consider themselves "heavily religious."

You live in the US, it isn't surprising.
The US is an outlier of the negative correlation between religious belief and intelligence.

[xXBeibsFan119Xx]

The thing about believing what feels right, is that lots of things that aren't true can feel right. That's why it's a bad idea to believe what feels right.

[Bahamut]

There's been a couple of times where I've wondered, "If there is a God, why does my life suck so much? Why do I continue to praise him but bad things just keep happening?" And then I went to this "concert" type thing and realized that I was being foolish for thinking that there was no God after years of believing.

[RagnaTheBroedge]

There's been a couple of times where I've wondered, "If there is a God, why does my life suck so much? Why do I continue to praise him but bad things just keep happening?" And then I went to this "concert" type thing and realized that I was being foolish for thinking that there was no God after years of believing.

i'm honestly not sure what i'm supposed to get from this?

[Alyx Vance]

*Prepares to be flamed to forget*
Listen I talked to my aunt today and she told me something that changed my life FOREVER. I was given the gifts of what I was given for a reason, I was sent to earth as a witness to others to help save them. We take and know this because of these facts:
1. The gifts I was given.
2. The fact that no matter how many times I almost die I turn out just fine.
3. I keep getting attacked for having crazy ass gifts
4. 316 is my number man. My first names John and I see 316 a lot so yea "John: 316"
5. loving Satan doesn't want me to live.
6. Demonic stuff attacks me a lot more than the ones without gifts.



Off topic: loving room won't stop moving because I was on a boat ALL DAY and now stuff keeps moving and my brain is fried from the sun.

[fred da kiko]

to me, believing in god is as sensible as believing in ghosts that you can't sense in any way, nor can you prove exist. while you can argue "there's no evidence against it" you could also argue that there's no evidence against every other religion, so that argument doesn't fly. the fact that there's no good evidence for or against religion is enough for me to consider myself an atheist until i am convinced otherwise.

[Electrk]

There's been a couple of times where I've wondered, "If there is a God, why does my life suck so much? Why do I continue to praise him but bad things just keep happening?" And then I went to this "concert" type thing and realized that I was being foolish for thinking that there was no God after years of believing.

Was it an REM concert?