Sharpshooter Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 God bless this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 "Atheism on the rise? Then in that case, it must mean America is becoming a better place." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super19 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Who exactly are you "quoting" there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Who exactly are you "quoting" there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsflash Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Does it matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Does it matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Evil Twin Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 We all love Neil Degrasse Tyson, but has anyone noticed that he's wrong in the video posted by elvis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super19 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Yeah, making up a fake quote matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 We all love Neil Degrasse Tyson, but has anyone noticed that he's wrong in the video posted by elvis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I was quoting ..."impersonating"... Atheists around the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 We all love Neil Degrasse Tyson, but has anyone noticed that he's wrong in the video posted by elvis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.K. Chesterton Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 The middle ground is separating...people are rushing to the poles of atheism and devout faith. However, it's also quite probable that another recent report could contradict the findings. Besides that, no one actually lives as if atheism were true. I would argue that, in the West, religion, specifically Christianity, which lay the basis for our current culture, lacks a lot of the platforms that atheists have. There are few Christian intellectuals who are household names like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, whereas as late as the mid 1900s you had many prominent Christian intellectuals such as C.S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr and Thomas Merton who were very popular. Thus, a loss of public discourse. The Church has plausibility structures - but they could probably be more effective. “Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” - G.K. Chesterton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 I was quoting ..."impersonating"... Atheists around the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 The middle ground is separating...people are rushing to the poles of atheism and devout faith. However, it's also quite probable that another recent report could contradict the findings. Besides that, no one actually lives as if atheism were true. I would argue that, in the West, religion, specifically Christianity, which lay the basis for our current culture, lacks a lot of the platforms that atheists have. There are few Christian intellectuals who are household names like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, whereas as late as the mid 1900s you had many prominent Christian intellectuals such as C.S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr and Thomas Merton who were very popular. Thus, a loss of public discourse. The Church has plausibility structures - but they could probably be more effective. “Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” - G.K. Chesterton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Evil Twin Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 The middle ground is separating...people are rushing to the poles of atheism and devout faith. However, it's also quite probable that another recent report could contradict the findings. Besides that, no one actually lives as if atheism were true. I would argue that, in the West, religion, specifically Christianity, which lay the basis for our current culture, lacks a lot of the platforms that atheists have. There are few Christian intellectuals who are household names like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, whereas as late as the mid 1900s you had many prominent Christian intellectuals such as C.S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr and Thomas Merton who were very popular. Thus, a loss of public discourse. The Church has plausibility structures - but they could probably be more effective. “Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” - G.K. Chesterton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 The middle ground is separating...people are rushing to the poles of atheism and devout faith. However, it's also quite probable that another recent report could contradict the findings. Besides that, no one actually lives as if atheism were true. I would argue that, in the West, religion, specifically Christianity, which lay the basis for our current culture, lacks a lot of the platforms that atheists have. There are few Christian intellectuals who are household names like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, whereas as late as the mid 1900s you had many prominent Christian intellectuals such as C.S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr and Thomas Merton who were very popular. Thus, a loss of public discourse. The Church has plausibility structures - but they could probably be more effective. “Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” - G.K. Chesterton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 What do you mean by the bolded part? I disagree with Chesterton once again.....reason isn't a matter of faith....it's a matter of logic. Faith in extraordinary supernatural claims with the coupling of less than ordinary evidence is illogical and therefore unreasonable. See? Logic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICanucksfan5551 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I don't think it is possible, in my humble opinion...but i'm open to being wrong. Though Buddhism doesn't necessarily believe in a Creator deity, they do proclaim dogmatic 'truths' based on or from the supernatural realm that isn't necessarily backed up by anything empirical. Theism is guided by the dogma of its understandings of, or revelations to, a supernatural truth. 'Nirvana' in Buddhism seems to be the object of worship as an ultimate 'oneness' is with a deity in other religions. Buddhism has its own theology. It is therefore inherently theistic. I don't believe an Atheist can also be a Theist, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaytanic Wehrmacht Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 The Greek root word "theos" means "god". Knowing this, how could Buddhists have a theology? Their religion has nothing to do with a god. Their beliefs are a-theos, "without a god". Therefore, they are atheists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICanucksfan5551 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Hear this ONE more time...Buddhists BELIEVE in religious supernatural happenings (achieving Nirvana, becoming Enlightened)...Atheists DO NOT BELIEVE in religious supernatural happenings. There is a difference here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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