Why do atheists post on the Religion forum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want to change your mind and make sure to take people away from their God. It's pretty evil in my opinion.

+100000
Exactly right. Pure evilness. So far from god.

Name calling - a desperation tactic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want to change your mind and make sure to take people away from their God. It's pretty evil in my opinion.

+100000
Exactly right. Pure evilness. So far from god.

Name calling - a desperation tactic

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
Vanna Bonta

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want to change your mind and make sure to take people away from their God. It's pretty evil in my opinion.

+100000
Exactly right. Pure evilness. So far from god.

Name calling - a desperation tactic

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
Vanna Bonta

Name calling - a desperation tactic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want to change your mind and make sure to take people away from their God. It's pretty evil in my opinion.

+100000
Exactly right. Pure evilness. So far from god.

Name calling - a desperation tactic

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
Vanna Bonta

Name calling - a desperation tactic

I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have no holidays”
Henry Youngman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the atheists in this forum were as entertaining as those of yore…

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.'' Simone Weil

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche

I hope you didn't spend too much time searching for entertaining quotes by atheists of yore.

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization” George Carlin

Love this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish the atheists in this forum were as entertaining as those of yore…

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.'' Simone Weil

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Simone Weil was not an atheist. She was a very conflicted Catholic.
https://uscatholic.org/articles/202101/simone-weil-a-kindred-spirit-for-church-outsiders/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want to change your mind and make sure to take people away from their God. It's pretty evil in my opinion.

+100000
Exactly right. Pure evilness. So far from god.

Name calling - a desperation tactic

The name calling on this thread has definitely gone both ways and yes, it's a fallacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want to change your mind and make sure to take people away from their God. It's pretty evil in my opinion.

+100000
Exactly right. Pure evilness. So far from god.

Name calling - a desperation tactic

The name calling on this thread has definitely gone both ways and yes, it's a fallacy.

But the whining is pretty one-sided.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey 27 pages and let’s not forget the most important thing: there’s still no real good evidence for a god of any kind!

Shouldn’t there be? And wouldn’t someone have presented some after 27 pages?

Someone claimed “objective evidence” earlier.

Still waiting on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey 27 pages and let’s not forget the most important thing: there’s still no real good evidence for a god of any kind!

Shouldn’t there be? And wouldn’t someone have presented some after 27 pages?

Someone claimed “objective evidence” earlier.

Still waiting on that.

I wouldn't hold your breath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the atheists in this forum were as entertaining as those of yore…

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.'' Simone Weil

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Simone Weil was not an atheist. She was a very conflicted Catholic.
https://uscatholic.org/articles/202101/simone-weil-a-kindred-spirit-for-church-outsiders/

Weil was born into a secular household and raised in "complete agnosticism".
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Si...
Simone Weil - Wikipedia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the atheists in this forum were as entertaining as those of yore…

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.'' Simone Weil

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Simone Weil was not an atheist. She was a very conflicted Catholic.
https://uscatholic.org/articles/202101/simone-weil-a-kindred-spirit-for-church-outsiders/

Weil was born into a secular household and raised in "complete agnosticism".
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Si...
Simone Weil - Wikipedia

Did you even read the Wikipedia article you linked? Quotes from Weil about God are all over it. Weil would not have been considered orthodox by any church, but that does not make her an atheist!

In fact by the standards of this thread the fact that she believed in God makes her complicit in basically all the ills of the modern era. And she undeniably believed in God. Or are you ignoring her saying such things as "I love God" and "Christ himself took possession of me?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey 27 pages and let’s not forget the most important thing: there’s still no real good evidence for a god of any kind!

Shouldn’t there be? And wouldn’t someone have presented some after 27 pages?

Someone claimed “objective evidence” earlier.

Still waiting on that.

Missed that post but objective evidence is not necessary for validating religious beliefs/ knowledge. It can’t be done via the scientific method.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey 27 pages and let’s not forget the most important thing: there’s still no real good evidence for a god of any kind!

Shouldn’t there be? And wouldn’t someone have presented some after 27 pages?

Someone claimed “objective evidence” earlier.

Still waiting on that.

Missed that post but objective evidence is not necessary for validating religious beliefs/ knowledge. It can’t be done via the scientific method.

Invalidating religious beliefs/knowledge (proving the negative, or proving the belief that God does not exist) also can't be done via the scientific method. It is by definition impossible.

Though if you use the definition of objective as "unrelated to feelings," then perhaps you can throw out a collection of facts that skew to one side or the other. Evidence != proof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the atheists in this forum were as entertaining as those of yore…

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.'' Simone Weil

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Simone Weil was not an atheist. She was a very conflicted Catholic.
https://uscatholic.org/articles/202101/simone-weil-a-kindred-spirit-for-church-outsiders/

Weil was born into a secular household and raised in "complete agnosticism".
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Si...
Simone Weil - Wikipedia

Did you even read the Wikipedia article you linked? Quotes from Weil about God are all over it. Weil would not have been considered orthodox by any church, but that does not make her an atheist!

In fact by the standards of this thread the fact that she believed in God makes her complicit in basically all the ills of the modern era. And she undeniably believed in God. Or are you ignoring her saying such things as "I love God" and "Christ himself took possession of me?"

Okay that is fair to some extent - I read some of her philosophy elsewhere and she did self-identify as agnostic - however you are right that she appears to have become more mystical leaning as she got older.

Stanford EP does not identify her as a Christian philosopher per se but notes she synthesized perspectives of Catholic doctrine with wisdom from various traditions such as ancient Greek philosophy and tragedies, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

Simone Weil (1909–1943) philosophized on thresholds and across borders. Her persistent desire for truth and justice led her to both elite academies and factory floors, political praxis and spiritual solitude. At different times she was an activist, a pacifist, a militant, a mystic, and an exile; but throughout, in her inquiry into reality and orientation to the good, she remained a philosopher. Her oeuvre features deliberate contradiction yet demonstrates remarkable clarity.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/


The main point that is relevant here is that is that she expressed her subtle ideas in interesting ways. Not a sledge hammer.