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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am now wondering which community is the more intolerant, believers or atheists, lol. [/quote]

I’m personally intolerant of lies and bullsht.

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Contempt is a bad look. I am new to these goings on. Do believers dump on atheists the way atheists refer to believers' beliefs as nonsense, lies, myths etc.?[/quote]

Yes - Believers tend to think that non-believers are evil.  Meanwhile, belief in the supernatural actually is "nonsense, lies, myths".  You don't believe in fairies or Santa anymore, do you?  But you still believe in God and angels.[/quote]

Equating belief in the Christian God (or any God) with belief in fairies or Santa Claus, implying it’s equally childish or irrational?

Fairies and Santa are ad-hoc explanations for specific phenomena (where do missing cookies go? who brings presents?). When better explanations appear (parents, tooth fairy money under the pillow), they’re discarded without the worldview collapsing.

The idea of God isn’t an explanation for one narrow thing. It’s the attempt to answer the deepest ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ questions: why the universe exists at all, why it’s finely tuned for life, why there’s objective morality, why consciousness exists. Billions of people (including many brilliant scientists and philosophers) find theism the most coherent answer to those big questions.

I don’t believe in God because I’m afraid of the dark or because I never grew out of fairy tales. I believe because, after looking at the arguments (cosmological, teleological, moral, the historical case for the resurrection, personal experience, etc.), theism makes more sense of reality than naturalism does to me.

You’re free to weigh the same evidence and come to the opposite conclusion — that’s fair. But dismissing it as ‘believing in fairies’ is a rhetorical jab, not an argument. It’s like me saying atheism is just ‘believing in magic exploding universes from nothing and that your thoughts are just meaningless brain fizz.’

That feels clever, but it doesn’t actually engage the real reasons people hold these views.[/quote]

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