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Anonymous Mon Sep 5 15:10:45 2022 No.20944324 [Reply] [Original]

is this the pinnacle of atheist writing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 15:12:18 2022 No.20944329 >>20944324 It's pretty bad, if that's the case, redditors are a long way from writing non-fiction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 15:14:45 2022 No.20944334 >>20944324 Reading Dawkins on religion is like reading a papal encyclica on biogenetic law. Anything Richard has written is best used as toilet paper or fodder for your fireplace.

Anonymous Mon Sep 5 15:17:38 2022 No.20944344

>>20944324
Its actually a pretty good book. Certainly better than God is Dead or End of Faith. Covers most of the ground. There's a certain overfocus on Christianity but that's understandable considering the context.

You have to understand that this entire atheist thing started with some idiots trying to introduce intelligent design in a biology course as an alternative to evolution.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 15:20:06 2022 No.20944348 File: 165 KB, 641x960, 40026370_703209630025776_3481431611747074048_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20944324 No, this is

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:03:42 2022 No.20944521 >>20944324 Where’s the lie? >>20944348 You meant to post The Antichrist Or what was it? Genealogy of Morality?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:06:11 2022 No.20944534 God or not-God aren't verifiable. This is why Hitchens is better, religions are easy to criticise because of all the vile stupid shit their adherents do on a daily basis.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:07:43 2022 No.20944541 >>20944534 >all the vile stupid shit their adherents do on a daily basis. They do lots of good, as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:09:36 2022 No.20944552 >>20944541 They do good when they're weak and unspeakable things when they're in power it seems like.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:10:57 2022 No.20944558 >>20944552 would you say they're weak now or in power?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:11:33 2022 No.20944562 Giant spaghetti monster or not-giant spaghetti monster isn’t verifiable either. The ancients had to admit their gods must all be vile stupid shits to make sense of the apparent wild natural world.

Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:14:28 2022 No.20944574

>>20944562
>The ancients had to admit their gods must all be vile stupid shits to make sense of the apparent wild natural world.

That's why a good loving god doesn't make sense. Christians tried to bend human perceptive reality to create the perfect utopia but it failed. Our myths grant us only so much power over the world.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:15:54 2022 No.20944577 >>20944562 >Giant spaghetti monster Every day this places gets closer to Reddit 2.0

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:18:31 2022 No.20944588 >>20944577 I could cite the tea kettle that orbits the sun, proclaim the divinity of Harry Potter, or make my own. The argument is sound and did not originate on your home board. Stop advertising it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:19:44 2022 No.20944592 >>20944588 >I could cite the tea kettle that orbits the sun, proclaim the divinity of Harry Potter, or make my own. All of which have been responded to and debunked.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:26:24 2022 No.20944619 >>20944521 TSZ is the greater filter and more comprehensive book. Everything he wrote after it was just an elaboration of TSZ.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:31:46 2022 No.20944641 >>20944324 How much of it is debunking things like the ontological argument and how much is ad hominems against religions?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:32:27 2022 No.20944645 >>20944592 And thus you debunk yhwh/Jesus/the other guy, and all the other theisms. That’s the point. You’re not squashing a new rival cult, you’re debunking ancient superstitions

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:36:13 2022 No.20944655 >>20944619 It’s great, but it’s not the book called for here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:37:14 2022 No.20944659 >>20944645 They don’t read books. That’s the priest’s job.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:37:50 2022 No.20944661 >>20944655 Why not?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:38:15 2022 No.20944663 >>20944641 They don’t read books. That’s the priest’s job

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:39:40 2022 No.20944672 >>20944661 It’s not specifically atheist. It does use a religious figure after all.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:46:18 2022 No.20944694 >>20944672 >It’s not specifically atheist >book literally starts with Zarathustra saying that God is dead >book is just a mythological variation of Nietzsche's philosophy which embraces the death of God wholesale

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:47:54 2022 No.20944704 >>20944558 I'm euro I'd say they're weak, but one fundamentalist cult in particular is getting more influential.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:56:49 2022 No.20944735 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/05/believe-it-or-not

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 16:57:17 2022 No.20944739 >>20944704 Islam?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 5 17:00:13 2022 No.20944748 >>20944735 >David Hart Imagine being this wrong

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