Christianity Megathread

[Machaty]

I mean from a linguistics standpoint, the definition of atheist is pretty clear. A-theist, so basically it just means not-theistic. I know that there's some debate over what atheism means, but the actual definition of the word is someone without a religion.

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[Yosher]

apatheism is the way to go imo

[Timestamp]

to be serious im an atheist and really do not care about religion in general

i just really hate the extremist type of atheists (aka the fedora tippers)

[Zharthon]

hey guys remember the crusades?

[XR-7]

I sort of blur the line between Atheist and Theist but if I had to answer it'd be that God hasn't really shown any proof of his existence since the 600s

That must be when furries, gender discomfort, and loveually explicit fanfictions became big, and he was just like, "I've done what I can but they're too far gone. I already promised after the flood that I wouldn't destroy the earth again so I'll just leave them to fester and destroy themselves."

And it only gets worse.

[Drydess]

That must be when furries, gender discomfort, and loveually explicit fanfictions became big, and he was just like, "I've done what I can but they're too far gone. I already promised after the flood that I wouldn't destroy the earth again so I'll just leave them to fester and destroy themselves."

And it only gets worse.

god is dead and furries killed him

[Juncoph]

hey guys remember the crusades?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVeJmTOsmQ

[Foxscotch]

furries

actually I'm good friends with god and he said his intention the whole time was for people to be furries. I mean what do you think was up with that talking snake? spoiler alert it wasn't kaa from the jungle book they were talking to, it was Big Buff Snake Man with a Huge richard

[Eon]

actually I'm good friends with god and he said his intention the whole time was for people to be furries. I mean what do you think was up with that talking snake? spoiler alert it wasn't kaa from the jungle book they were talking to, it was Big Buff Snake Man with a Huge richard

so should we kill god for sinning

[Foxscotch]

so should we kill god for sinning

god died as soon as he created that snake man. he just couldn't handle the heat
so I guess technically drydess was right

[Eon]

god died as soon as he created that snake man. he just couldn't handle the heat
so I guess technically drydess was right

well i now declare myself god
im gonna deport you and all the other furries to the mexico and the weebs too
bnetter watch out

[dr_pepper]

You can't be both admin AND god! Pick one or the other.

[Eon]

Can I forget it?

not when you're deported BUDDY

You can't be both admin AND god! Pick one or the other.

yes i can

[Acerblock]

Hey you atheists I have a question for you.

Why don't you believe in God? Spite, or like, lack of evidence? I know I made it sound like I'm challenging you but I'm only curious.

Lack of evidence, contradictions in the Bible, problem of evil, omnipotence paradox, God doesn't really seem like a benevolent figure based on biblical passages, many religious people are anti-science, conservative traditions that I don't agree with, some morals from the Bible are backward, nonsensical and many other philosophical and logical arguments that conflict with Christianity and other religions that I'm not currently thinking of.

i would rather be religious because i have nothing to lose by being so

Pascal's Wager, easily refutable honestly. http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/nogod/pascal.htm

[Ipquarx]

The weird thing about pascal's wager is a bit funny. It says "You have nothing to lose, come join us!" yet the only argument made to join specifically christianity instead of literally any other religion is literally an appeal to popularity. Your religion having the most people in it does not make it any more likely to be true than the religion of any random african tribe. Even if you do "become a christian" solely because of pascal's wager, can you truly say that you actually believe, or are you just saying that you do so that you have a tiny, tiny chance of being saved? I don't know about you, but I don't think any God would appreciate that kind of intellectual dishonesty.

I would just say that there's no perfect agreed upon definition/clarification for the words Atheism and Agnosticism.
Your approach, that of agnosticism being a subset of atheism is one view I've seen, mostly on this website.

It's not just on this website. It is an actual thing, believe it or not. Here's the wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism

However, the curriculum of my A Level Religious Studies course had a different view. That being that;
 - Agnosticism is a choice to neither believe there is or isn't a God/gods. It accepts that there could be a deity and therefore isn't atheism.

That seems to directly contradict the definition of atheism.


Of course, if you for some reason want to make atheism more restrictive (I don't know why you would) then you could use the less broad definition, but that just seems silly to me. By this seemingly generally accepted definition, atheism is not a belief that no gods exist, but rather a lack of belief, which allows for the possibility of one existing. That would be called, as I linked earlier, agnostic atheism. The belief that no god exists on the other hand, would be gnostic atheism. There's also agnostic theism (Theism while admitting the possibility of no gods existing) and gnostic theism. (Theism being absolutely certain that your god exists.) These definitions would make you an agnostic atheist. Nothing wrong with that at all!