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I love religion battles as much as the next atheist, but sometimes I really just can’t think of what to say in reply to things like this:
Gotcha covered! And remember, Godwin’s Law is totally acceptable.
“My religion is based on love and is centered on spreading it. You’re trying to destroy that love by disproving my religion.”
Good for you. Doesn’t make the religion true.
“You’re disrespecting my most dearly held beliefs.”
And stopping the Holocaust disrespected Hitler’s dearly held beliefs that Jews and gays deserve to be systematically murdered.
“I’ll pray for you.”
I’ll think for you.
“I wasn’t hurting anyone by mentioning god. Why do you feel the need to counter every religious thing I say?”
Because I think you’re wrong.
“My beliefs deserve as much respect as yours do.”
Which is none at all. People get respect, not ideas.
“Stop shoving your atheism down my throat.”
This one depends on who started the conversation, really. If you started it, meh, bad move. If a theist did, then you’re just countering their shoving of religion down yours. Many theists are not used to people defending themselves so they take any defense as an attack.
All. The. Fucking. Time.
I don’t care who you are THE. HOLOCAUST. IS. NOT. A. RHETORICAL. TOOL.
Unless the subject you are talking about involved the systematic torture and extermination of 6 million human beings IT IS NOT A VALID COMPARISON.
WHEN YOU COMPARE PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEF TO HITLER’S ATTEMPT TO COMMIT GENOCIDE YOU ARE TRIVIALIZING ONE OF THE SINGLE MOST HEINOUS ACTS OF HUMAN EVIL IN HISTORY.
FUCKING STOP IT.
Not saying all Atheists are like that, by the way. I’m just saying how hypocritical people can be.
For the billionth time, NO. ATHEISM IS NOT A BELIEF.
Yeah. Also, it’s OK to be fundamentalist about some things, like reality and human dignity. If your opinion clearly flies in the face of reality or human dignity, then it is the duty of all right-thinking people to be as fundamentalist as possible about that reality, or that human dignity. What seems to you like “atheist fundamentalism” is really just a correctly vigorous rejection of a toxic environment.
ALSO THIS.
AUGH marvellous
Not saying all Atheists are like that, by the way. I’m just saying how hypocritical people can be.
For the billionth time, NO. ATHEISM IS NOT A BELIEF.
My thoughts on Atheism exactly…
This shit again.
Let’s break it down.
Originally there was a gravitational singularity. Within the gravitational singularity there was energy, as the laws of thermodynamics and the law of conservation of energy tells us that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Following the 2nd law of thermodynamics, the entropy of the gravitational singularity, which was of low entropy, expanded, thus causing the big bang. During the big bang energy was converted to matter, thus matter as we know it was created. We see the inverse of this happening during say, nuclear reactions.
Anyways, after the big bang, the universe is created, stars form, planets form due to gravity and so on passes a few billion years.
Then on Earth, the early Earth situations allow for abiogenesis, or the creation of organic material from inorganic material and the first protocell is created. The protocell becomes the first cell which then becomes the roots of the tree of life on Earth. ^A few billion years of evolution, and you have dinosaurs.
If you agree with this photo, it’s not because the photo has any merit. It’s just that you failed high school science.
I seriously don’t understand why people don’t get this.
It’s a phenomenon I call “selective stupidity” where someone rejects even the most basic logic because it opposes their opinions/beliefs.
Stigma and homophobia against gay men is hampering efforts to manage a growing epidemic of HIV in Islamic countries, warn epidemiologists this week.
“The stigma is a barrier to HIV prevention services,” says Laith Abu-Raddad of the Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar in Doha. He heads up a team that is assembling, for the first time, data from the Islamic world on the growing prevalence of HIV in practising gay men.
They report that the arrival of HIV in the gay community has been relatively recent compared with other regions of the world, but warn that it is on the rise. In Pakistan, for example, the prevalence of HIV in transgender male sex workers rose from 0.8 per cent in 2005 to 6.4 per cent just three years later.
Historically, HIV epidemics have often begun in minority, high-risk groups such as men who have sex with men or intravenous drug users, then spread to the general population. A problem in much of the Islamic world is that men having sex with men is illegal. That, coupled with homophobia, hampers efforts to contain the virus by making gay men too scared to seek treatment, a pattern that has been seen in eastern European countries, India and sub-Saharan Africa.
Abu-Raddad says that governments are managing “to deal with [HIV] discreetly” by inviting non-governmental organisations to provide testing, counselling and treatment for gay men.
The spread of HIV is at a relatively early stage in Islamic countries, so there is an opportunity to stop it growing. But this will only happen if governments accept that it is spreading among gay men, and that action is required.
“We need much better HIV prevention, surveillance, testing, counselling and treatment, but NGOs can only do it with resources from governments,” says Abu-Raddad.
Journal reference: PloS Medicine, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000444
From New Scientist
Oh look, another way pointless hatred makes the world a more fucked up place to be.
