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[A HERETIC I AM]

25. I have stayed out of these threads for quite a long time, though I read them, but FFS!

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First of all, to the above persons who say they themselves or other Atheists "Lack" something is fucking bullshit.

I don't lack a damned thing (OK..I lack the ability to fly a helicopter proficiently and assorted other knowledge based items) regarding any god or gods.

The idea that I somehow lack ANYTHING because I have come to the KNOWLEDGE that ALL gods are mythical constructs is absurd.

A - Theist = without a god or gods. Parse it any way you wish, but that's what it means.

I have no gods. Is it possible that an entity that we as mere humans might think of as a god exists?

Sure. It's possible. There could be thousands. Millions. But they all do a damned good job of hiding and that to me means they aren't worthy of reverence, much less any attention. And if they exist I STILL wouldn't revere or "worship" them or it because everything I have been taught or led to understand about him (it's almost ALWAYS A 'HIM') makes me, as a person who does his best to think rationally, come to the conclusion that all gods are unworthy of worship or reverence or attention by a modern, rational mind.

The idea that there is an all knowing, all powerful, transcendental super being in control of everything is quite frankly, primitive thinking.

It deserves its place in the dustbin of history.

It is astouding to read sentences like "I also like apatheist - which is basically the position that I don't know if there is a god or not, and I don't care" from people who are so incredibly prolific in this forum.

Most of the threads in this group, and certainly the subject matter, involve the god of Abraham and Isaac. Let's not beat around the bush, shall we? There is NO MORE REASON for a rational, thinking person who has had a 20th century, western education and is capable of critical thinking to believe that THAT god exists to the exclusion of all others, than there is reason to believe Unicorns are right around the corner, it's just that we keep missing them.

All gods are mythical constructs, full stop. If you truly think that the god of Abraham is a real thing - a thinking, manipulative, calculative, vengeful, spiteful being who is in control of everything and knows the number of hairs on your head etc.etc. etc. ad nauseum, then I say you are fucking nuts. I say you haven't thought it through, I say you haven't understood the history of the church and I say you have done NOTHING to educate yourself on how the priestly class came to be and why it is they so vehemently cling to promulgating myths.


So go ahead. Fucking alert on this post. One of what? 4 I've put up in this group in the last 2 years? But I read the bullshit you guys put up....oh yeah. And it is tedious as hell to be told I "lack" something over and over and over.

Believers lack a conduit to rational thinking.

Hows that?