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Why it's simple. They ignore religion so religion should ignore Atheism.

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Why it's simple. They ignore religion so religion should ignore Atheism.

WTH? Did you come up with that in a dream?



Religion, Science and the Attack of the Angry Atheists
02/19/2013 07:58 am ET | Updated Apr 21, 2013

Max Tegmark MIT physicist, author of "Our Mathematical Universe"

I'd been warned. A friend cautioned me that if we went ahead and posted our MIT Survey on Science, Religion and Origins, I'd get inundated with hate-mail from religious fundamentalists who believe our universe to be less than 10,000 years old. We posted it anyway, and the vitriolic responses poured in as predicted. But to my amazement, most of them didn't come from religious people, but from angry atheists! I found this particularly remarkable since I'm not religious myself. I have three criticisms of these angry atheists:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/angry-atheists_b_2716134.html

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Why it's simple. They ignore religion so religion should ignore Atheism.

WTH? Did you come up with that in a dream?



Religion, Science and the Attack of the Angry Atheists
02/19/2013 07:58 am ET | Updated Apr 21, 2013

Max Tegmark MIT physicist, author of "Our Mathematical Universe"

I'd been warned. A friend cautioned me that if we went ahead and posted our MIT Survey on Science, Religion and Origins, I'd get inundated with hate-mail from religious fundamentalists who believe our universe to be less than 10,000 years old. We posted it anyway, and the vitriolic responses poured in as predicted. But to my amazement, most of them didn't come from religious people, but from angry atheists! I found this particularly remarkable since I'm not religious myself. I have three criticisms of these angry atheists:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/angry-atheists_b_2716134.html

Please read what RealOne posted. It proposes more or less that because one of Niels Bohr's theories cannot be proven, Religion is the truth. I'm religious, but this sort of article is absolute trash that degrades the reputation of the religious and scientific

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Group of people believing in a fairytale book, doesn't affect them in any way.

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Some Militant Atheist get very agitated when Christians tell them they are going to hell. And they use this as a reason for them to want to shut down Christians.

But it's like, hell don't exist. They tell you are going to some imaginary place? It's like, whatever. Again, if you know there is no hell, there is nothing to get upset about. Unless they believe hell actually exists and are actually worried.

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In the US 7 states ban atheists from holding or even running for political office.

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Why it's simple. They ignore religion so religion should ignore Atheism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/angry-atheists_b_2716134.html

Please read what RealOne posted. It proposes more or less that because one of Niels Bohr's theories cannot be proven, Religion is the truth. I'm religious, but this sort of article is absolute trash that degrades the reputation of the religious and scientific

Yeah, no. But here's something it does propose:

...I don't mind if you criticize me. All I ask is that, before you do, you please read carefully what I've written, make an honest attempt to understand my point of view, and articulate your criticism carefully and thoughtfully.

Too bad you didn't bother.

We present a detailed survey of how different US faith communities view origins science, particularly evolution and Big Bang cosmology. We find a striking gap between people’s personal beliefs and the official views of the faiths to which they belong. Whereas Gallup reports that 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago, we find that only 11% belong to religions openly rejecting evolution. This shows that the main divide in the origins debate is not between science and religion, but between a small fundamentalist minority and mainstream religious communities who embrace science. The fact that the gap between personal and official beliefs is so large suggests that part of the controversy might be defused by people learning more about their own religious doctrine and the science it endorses, thereby bridging this belief gap.

Source: The MIT Survey on Science, Religion and Origins

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In the US 7 states ban atheists from holding or even running for political office.

Wow, US is more backwards than I thought. How is that legal in the US? I thought you can't discriminate against religion? Doesn't that break some amendment? That would never happen in my country. Atheist or Christians or Muslims, all welcome. Infact recently, they want to make changes, some affirmative action, so we can elect a Muslim President. I was like WTF?? Noooo!!!! But they are gonna make it happen! They just want like every religious group to have a chance in office. The President is the highest paying public job, and basically, you are like King of Singapore. A bit like Queen Elizabeth. Get paid 3.5Mil per annum to wave at people.

Now thinking about this, I need to complain to my own government, that they haven't had a female President either! Do we need affirmative action to get there? NO!

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Oh dear, is he still dealing with those Atheists knocking on his door regularly, trying to convert him? Because that happens alllllllllll the time

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You just said in another thread your dictatorship rejected Syrian refugees because of the "will of the people" yet "all (are) welcome" in your totalitarian country?

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There is no doubt in my mind that there are atheists that truly just don't believe in a higher power. They go on about their business. They may even shake their head (in their own mind) at any reference to God, but, for the most part, they are non-intrusive into the lives of others. The same can't be said of the God-haters that cloak themselves in the bullshit title of "Atheists".

That kind of "Atheist" is to true Atheism what ISIS is to Islam.



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There is no doubt in my mind that there are atheists that truly just don't believe in a higher power. They go on about their business. They may even shake their head (in their own mind) at any reference to God, but, for the most part, they are non-intrusive into the lives of others. The same can't be said of the God-haters that cloak themselves in the bullshit title of "Atheists".

That kind of "Atheist" is to true Atheism what ISIS is to Islam.



Michael

There's no doubt in my mind that you don't have the intellectual capacity to understand what atheism is, you may want to look it up before you make stupid statements like above.