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I'm beginning to understand.......The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality.
Sigmund also touched on those ideas when he referred to the "infantilism of religion" --or as he so bluntly characterized it, "the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity".
There is no empirical proof that evolution is fact. Carl Sagan didn't say it, and if he did, he'd too have to prove it. It's a belief system. An hypothesis. At the very best, a guess. It's a religion. Believe in it if you must. But it's cold comfort when you go through life and what life throws at you. Believe in your theories when a son or daughter dies, or when you're kicked out of your house, or you're diagnosed with stage four cancer. The tenets of Darwinism won't sustain your through the darkest points in your life. Human reason won't get you through a nasty divorce. Unfortunately, that's YOUR delusion.
You know, you don't have to listen to anything anyone has to say about evolution here. There is so much great information out there that you could research it yourself to find the truth.
If by empirical evidence you mean evidence that is demonstrable and repeatable, there is plenty of it.
You have been given many excellent links. There is no excuse for you to display such an astonishing level of ignorance of the subject.
You repeat over and over that evolution is a belief system, a hypothesis, or a guess when you have been given clear evidence that this is not so.
You deny the evidence with no counter argument.
Surely you are aware that many believers accept evolution as fact.
They accept evolution because they have taken the time to learn about the subject. Something you have never done.
All the silly things you say about evolution are just plain wrong and don't represent what evolution actually is at all. It is, quite simply put, gradual changes over a very long period of time.
The rest of your post is very confusing to me.
Are you saying that believers only believe because bad things happen in life and that is the only way they can deal with it?
Or that atheists don't believe in god because they have never had bad things happen to them? This seems like an argument for atheism.
Atheists certainly aren't immune to the crap life throws at you.
I don't know what the "tenets of Darwinism" are. And if they could help a person deal with life's adversities, would they be bad solely because they are competition for god belief?
I think human reason would get you through a bad divorce, because people who are reasonable aren't likely to have a bad divorce in the first place.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window..........Stephen King
I'm beginning to understand.......The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality.
insult him? lol calling his delusions out is not insulting.
His comments are insulting to ME because it makes me lose faith in human kind's intelligence and common sense!
What I'm describing is an agnostic atheist, which is what most atheists are. There's no such thing as a person who isn't a theist nor an atheist.
I beg to differ Kenshi, plenty of Agnostics, such as our esteemed Albert Einstein, are pure Agnostics... in that they think the chances of the existence of one or more gods is 50-50. In that either God exists, or he doesn't; irrespective of the evidences put forth; or specifically because they have not been convinced either way, yet they agree that god could exist. thus, they belief they are agnostic, but they don't believe that they have good enough evidence to say whether or not gods exist. In fact, I used to be a pure Agnostic. Now, if you are using the word athiest as "non-religious" or "non-theist", then I suppose you would be right.
Belief in something requires faith. So atheism, then is a religion, right?
If they gathered together around some specifics of their common beliefs, then yes, they would be able to make a religion, an atheistic religion. however, Atheism by itself is as much a religion as Theism is. Even confessing Satanists are theists.
Now, if you are using the word athiest as "non-religious" or "non-theist", then I suppose you would be right.
It does mean "non-theist".
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