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by Mephistopheles » Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:06 pm
Ah yes, because putting a small amount of faith in physical evidence and reasoned logic is just as bad as putting a shitton of faith in the myths of archaic nomads.
The difference is, rational thought maintains a few, very basic assumptions about reality, which are continuously and rigorously examined every time new data is introduced. If they don't match the data, the assumptions are modified, removed, or replaced.
With whatever the hell you believe, not only do you hold the same assumptions we do (though, from what I can tell, have no idea what they are, let alone how to properly utilize them), in addition to several thousand years of dogmatic baggage, assumptions that you are simply unwilling to put under the same scrutiny of scientific claims.
So sure, we place a small amount of faith that reality exists and that from what we can observe it is consistent. But to even try to pretend that that is in any way equivalent to the way you blindly presume that a god exists, that specifically the Christian God exists, that the Christian God is omni-anything, that the Christian God gives a damn about you, that people have souls, that there is some form of afterlife, that the afterlife is a realm of eternal bliss or torture, that the rules you must follow to avoid Hell are in any way based on an objective standard of "good" and "evil," etc. etc. etc. all based on a TWO THOUSAND YEAR GAME OF TELEPHONE is hypocritical.
I'd say read a fucking book dude. Maybe if you had an inkling of, I don't know, theoretical physics, philosophy, evolutionary psychology, natural selection, pretty much anything other than your stupid anthology of fairy tales, you wouldn't make stupid threads like this.
