Empiricism

[Meh Gerbil]

*looks around the forum*
*listens carefully*

Hmmm.... atheists do not exist!

[Goulette]

Therefore, Jesus never existed.

[firstfloor]

All knowledge is founded on the motion of inanimate matter and light.

[Meh Gerbil]

Therefore, Jesus never existed.

I don't think Jesus was an atheist.
Of course, I never read any of his later material.

[Meh Gerbil]

All knowledge is founded on the motion of inanimate matter and light.

Nothing like an appeal to physics to kill a discussion.

[Cerebrum123]

Nothing like an appeal to physics to kill a discussion.

You're dealing with a fundy atheist, a lot they say can kill a discussion.

[Meh Gerbil]

You're dealing with a fundy atheist, a lot they say can kill a discussion.

Yep, they all start out as nice Baptist boys and girls until they find a Mad Magazine along side the road. After a couple of nights of reading that garbage they move onto heavier stuff, first a bit of Kurt Vonnegut and then onto the hard core stuff: Sagan, Hitchens, Dawkins. After that the drugs, the sex, and the rock and roll wear away at their moral compass until at last, in a boozy fog they invoke the powers of their narcotic gods and commence the ritual sacrifice of virgin theology discussions.

[firstfloor]

You're dealing with a fundy atheist, a lot they say can kill a discussion.

“Fundy Atheist” is a myth put about by fundy Christians. Remember brothers that we are all fellow atheists with respect to the majority of god’s that men have invented to understand the world. Let’s get the discussion going.

[Cerebrum123]

“Fundy Atheist” is a myth put about by fundy Christians.

False. The term has even been used by atheists to describe themselves. For more watch this.

Remember brothers that we are all fellow atheists with respect to the majority of god’s that men have invented to understand the world. Let’s get the discussion going.

You obviously have no idea what I believe, and you have also prove that discussion with you is rather pointless.

[Trout]

If I had to listen to the "gerbil" blather on about Jesus I too would deny my intellect and better judgement and embrace atheism.

[Meh Gerbil]

“Fundy Atheist” is a myth put about by fundy Christians. Remember brothers that we are all fellow atheists with respect to the majority of god’s that men have invented to understand the world. Let’s get the discussion going.

Can I claim that we're all basically fellow anti-scientists because for every scientific theory that succeeds there are dozens that have been proven wrong?

BTW, most Christians believe that there are millions of 'principalities and powers' above mankind, any one of which that could pass for a god, so I wouldn't be comfortable claiming that other gods (from the human perspective) don't exist. We'd label them false gods, but hold that they exist in one form or another.

[Meh Gerbil]

If I had to listen to the "gerbil" blather on about Jesus I too would deny my intellect and better judgement and embrace atheism.

Given your lack of intellect and better judgment denying their existence would be rather easy to do.

[Soyeong]

“Fundy Atheist” is a myth put about by fundy Christians. Remember brothers that we are all fellow atheists with respect to the majority of god’s that men have invented to understand the world. Let’s get the discussion going.

If someone is a theist, they are not an atheist in any sense of the term.

[firstfloor]

False. The term has even been used by atheists to describe themselves. For more watch this.

Holding is, of course, biased. Atheism is simply the position that all deities do not exist outside the human imagination. The imagined deity does however affect human behaviour. The atheist activist is mostly interested in ensuring that that behaviour is not detrimental to the society generally. The problem being that the deist imagines an authority above the civil law that gives him permission to do stupid things and indulge in bigotry and so on.

[Soyeong]

Everyone is, of course, biased. But that doesn't change that fact that it was not Christians who originally coined the term. It means atheists who have the same mindset of fundy Christians.