Great Christina's Atheist Meme of The Day
Oct. 22nd, 2009 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteI've skipped a lot of these so as not to spam everyone, but I could not leave this one unposted:
"People find religion comforting" is not a good argument for why religion is true. Wanting something to be so doesn't make it so. Plus, many believers don't find religion comforting -- they find it upsetting, confusing, guilt-tripping, and demoralizing. Pass it on: if we say it enough times to enough people, it may get across.
Yes. This. Whether or not you find the idea of a god or gods comforting has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not such a being or beings actually exists in the real world.
Also, as a lifelong atheist, I've never found the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful God who would allow the world to exist in its current state remotely comforting. I understand intellectually that many people do find comfort in this idea, but I find this incomprehensible on an emotional level.
(Atheism: the perfect solution to the Problem Of Evil.)
"People find religion comforting" is not a good argument for why religion is true. Wanting something to be so doesn't make it so. Plus, many believers don't find religion comforting -- they find it upsetting, confusing, guilt-tripping, and demoralizing. Pass it on: if we say it enough times to enough people, it may get across.
Yes. This. Whether or not you find the idea of a god or gods comforting has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not such a being or beings actually exists in the real world.
Also, as a lifelong atheist, I've never found the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful God who would allow the world to exist in its current state remotely comforting. I understand intellectually that many people do find comfort in this idea, but I find this incomprehensible on an emotional level.
(Atheism: the perfect solution to the Problem Of Evil.)