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| quote: | Originally posted by tanta
You don't find atheists anywhere who say that religion is the sole problem to the world's problems. |
But you find atheists who believe it's among the world's greatest problems. That's, I believe, rubbish.
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You just posted a textbook example of a worthless strawman argument. |
Yeah, right. The people I'm talking about don't exist, never mind the books I read penned by them.
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Rational atheists are small in number, so they are the few out there who are in a position to fight the problem of religion based on a logic, evidence, reason, etc...That's why it seems a particular focus for them. |
Are you saying that guy is a rational atheist?!
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Many atheists rightly believe religion is both a HUGE and totally unnecessary problem because of just how detrimental it is to core logic and reasoning in those infected by it, and how anti-civilization the dogma is in its most popular varieties. |
I like how you don't cite a single name so I know where you're coming from.
And, no, religion isn't a huge unnecessary problem. It's huge, I give you that, but in isolation it's neither unnecessary nor exactly a problem. Feel free trying to come up with an example that (i) include religious people in general and (ii) that leads to an unnecessary problem.
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Certainly without religion Earth would still have to deal with fascism/totalitarianism...because that's the most religious-like secular version of similar theocracies. In addition to the countless other problems us apes cause for ourselves (and ones that mother nature inflicts on us as well). |
Precisely why it makes much more sense to tackle the cause of these problems, not just the overt symptoms.
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