• Signtist@bookwyr.me
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    21 days ago

    Sounds like Atheism, like all belief systems, empowered an asshole with self-righteous validation. Even if you bet on the right horse, it doesn’t mean everything you do is automatically justified; empathy is a higher order law.

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      21 days ago

      Atheism, like all belief systems

      You really should educate yourself a little bit more to get to the baseline level.

      Even if you bet on the right horse, it doesn’t mean everything you do is automatically justified; empathy is a higher order law.

      Oh, nevermind, you’re one of those feel-good nonsense wafflers.

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        21 days ago

        Atheism is as much a belief as bald is a haircut. Technically slightly different, but makes sense to throw into the same box.

        Learning that being right doesn’t make you not an arsehole is a lesson too many of us had to learn the hard way.

        The satanic temple’s 7th tenet sums it up quite well.

        Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

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          21 days ago

          Atheism is as much a belief as bald is a haircut. Technically slightly different

          Only theists try to bring atheism down to a belief system.

          By that logic: absence of being on fire is kind of being on fire. Not drowning is a specific type of drowning. Vacuum is a particular form of atmosphere. Being an idiot is just a form of wisdom.

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            21 days ago

            Atheism does require belief. Even if it’s only in the axioms of physics.

            As per my analogy, bald is not a haircut, but an absence of hair. You would be hard pressed to find a bald person who complained about it being lumped in with haircuts in a form.

            Recognising the limits to our own knowledge is an important part of finding the truth.

            Oh and the options “on fire” and “not on fire” obviously belong in the same grouping, even if they are different things.

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              Atheism does require belief. Even if it’s only in the axioms of physics.

              Interestingly, a diet poor in Omega-3 leads to inability to distinguish between belief and fact.

              Please stop being on such a diet.

              Now you’re confusing atheism - lack of belief in deities - with general knowledge of science, and then confusing general knowledge of science with belief. You are also confusing empirical evidence with faih.

              Go eat fish.

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      21 days ago

      Sounds like Atheism, like all belief systems

      That’s not Atheism at all 🤣

      Atheism is a lack of belief in a god or gods, that’s it, nothing more, nothing less.

      There’s no instruction manual or bible or quran instructing him to behave this way, he has picked up what some sort of Americanism and ran with it

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        21 days ago

        Like all belief systems ≠ like all other belief systems

        “Pigs, like all felines, are chordates,” is a perfectly valid sentence that doesn’t imply that pigs are felines.

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              21 days ago

              I mean calling atheism a belief system of any kind is like calling not collecting stamps a hobby, it doesn’t make sense

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                21 days ago

                But they didn’t do that, just like I didn’t call a pig a feline.

                It’s not important though, and this isn’t the pedantry thread, so I’ll drop it.

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                  21 days ago

                  thanks, I’ll consult NOT AI, I USED YOUR FAVOURITE MORALLY CORRECT WAY to see the error in my ways because I’m now more confused 🥲

                  edit: ok I understand now, you win this round!

                  Thanks to @cryptiod137@lemmy.world for the downvote, ya weirdo

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                    21 days ago

                    You took that personally I guess but I’m the weirdo?

                    Atheism is any sense is a belief system, the above poster fell deeply into a particular variety of it

                    I don’t know if your comment about AI was sarcasm but I assure you it’s not going to help