Hi! I'm an #atheist #humanist and #skeptic looking to respectfully engage online here with people I disagree with. And maybe people who agree with me too!
I don't believe in #god , and in fact I'm pretty sure no such thing exists, but I'm willing to consider the alternatives and change my mind.
Are you a #christian who believes in #jesus , or any other #religion , and want to explore whether or not you have good reasons to think that it's true? I'm happy to have that conversation!
I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong. Are you?
@lack Christian god: “You are evil, and you deserve to die.” Atheist: “No, -you- are evil and I think you don’t exist.”
@b_chocolatey I don't usually use the "problem of evil" argument, but when I do it's not me saying "I think God exists and is evil so I don't want it to exist", but more of a "If I temporarily assume that God exists for the sake of argument, I find this contradiction which suggests the initial idea (that a loving and powerful God exists) is incorrect".
I think this is a common misunderstanding of how the argument is supposed to work, made worse by atheists who maybe don't explain it well :)
@lack the #rationalist #scientific mind should accept, with #Nietzchean #Buddhist -like resignation, that we live in a Lawful Neutral universe that is sometimes indifferent to human well-being. Sometimes the hurricane wins. Sometimes the virus wins. Doesn’t conclusively dis-prove that Someone invented hydrogen and oxygen all those trillions of years ago.
@b_chocolatey @lack but frankly also there are non-Abrahamic conceptions of god that are less punitive
@Ariellec @lack They got to the origin-of-death myth pretty fast, and they wrote a pretty unpleasant one. But other origin-of-death myths are pretty gruesome. In a Native American myth, apparently an owl-god decided that humans should have a limited lifespan to prevent overpopulation. And then the owl’s baby chickling was the first to die
