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The only thing worse than indoctrinated religious nuts saying "I know better than you" is dumb ass kids online saying "lol you believe in fairy tails"
shut the fuck up and stop caring what other people's beliefs are
Taylor admits to being the most agnostic of the three and this sub is acting like he's a bible thumping evangelical. Lunacy.
He is becoming the most religious recently. Him being agnostic is a much younger taylor.
By "most religious" do you mean "still mostly atheist"? I don't recall him saying anything recently to suggest he's religious at all now.
Idk maybe the fact he was nearly in tears over the fear he has of demons? And how angry he got at the idea of a satanist being a guest.
I think you're imagining how much he cares.
Altering your behaviour to account for a fictional entity is not agnostic, it's belief. Taylor literally appealed to Biblical canon to explain why it's dangerous to sell your soul and why the devil is definitely the bad guy, and proclaimed "oh there's definitely a soul". He is a religious man. You could quite easily just say "I know demons aren't real but I can't help having an irrational uneasy feeling about it all".
No amount of memes can justify your nonsensical, unfounded beliefs. Developing critical thinking skills might be a better use of your time.
Buddy we are on r/PKA. There are infinite better uses of our time.
The vast majority of people, probably everyone honestly, have strong beliefs in some nonsensical bullshit. Whether it’s religion or communism or the female orgasm there is a lot of bullshit people buy into for one reason or another. Not believing in one of them doesn’t make you special or better than anyone else, especially because in all likelihood you believe in some flavor of bullshit yourself.
Wait till you get older, a lot of us were atheists in late teens and early 20s
Woody literally grew up in a vacation town on the beach, tons of money, zero struggles and it becomes kind of hard to see things working in the background that you cannot explain when everything has been just fine always..
It is just as ridiculous to claim there is no God as it is to claim there is one.
As someone who considers himself ethnically Catholic(I don’t go to mass or deal with all that dogma), and was once a devout atheist after years of education. I now I find it hard to not believe, and I never wanted this. There is more to reality than these three dimensions we perceive. Is it so hard to believe we live in a simulation and there’s a great moderator running it hands off but still making sure the systems working as it should.
A lot of the smartest people in the world believe we live in a simulation lol Science came full circle.
There isn’t more to reality though, things just exist, you live and you die.
Bro you sound like you’ve lived a very limited cautious life lol You also sound like your religious about not being religious 😂 I should be dead, countless times over. I figure I’m supposed to be somewhere at some point, so I just keep living.
I’m just living life too, it’s you who anticipates a life of heroic deeds. You find meaning in believing that there was divine intervention relating to your near death experiences. In reality death is just random and meaningless. You might mean something for some people, but earth will keep spinning with or without you.
The irony is that the vast majority of people aren't using critical thinking skills. In the 1800s the church said things were true and the populace took it as true. Now it's scientists. You can never actually test the veracity of most of the claims.
Faith is involved regardless. In terms of where your faith is placed, if you're being honest with yourself it's not really a choice. If I could choose to believe in God I would. I would love for there to be an afterlife and I think if I could genuinely believe in it I'd be a happier person.
Faith is not involved regardless. When I start my car in the morning, I have confidence it will start because I have a history of starting it every morning. It might not start, but I'm pretty certain it will. I have confidence people won't crash into me, because they generally don't, but if they did, that's the risk I'm weighing. I have confidence in science, because it is a practice, that you can take each step along that process, to come to a conclusion that you can replicate. Science is ever changing, because we discover new things just about every day. That actually reinforces the validity of the confidence in science, because it can change determined from new evidence. And you CAN test the veracity of all claims. You yourself can measure the speed of light and many other cool ass things. Faith and confidence are not synonymous. In fact, in many definitions of faith, it includes confidence despite proof. Faith is 100% belief in something without the proof. You cannot have confidence inspite of evidence for your confidence
You realize that scientists test the claims/experiments of other scientists, right?
Or, are you saying that they all get together and say “hey this is the new shit we’re going to tell everybody?”
I mean, yeah pretty much. So they tested and built upon the claims of a flat, geocentric solar system model before pushing it to the masses? They shared all the nonexistent data with each other and that’s why that idea was accepted? Scientists (especially modern) are just religious zealots on the other end of the spectrum.
For one, I don’t think the scientific method was even a thing at the time people thought the earth was the center of the solar system. Also, I’m not saying that scientists never get anything wrong, that’s why they update when new facts are available. I’m also not saying the some scientists don’t have an agenda, but as a whole, they get things right.
You know nothing of science beyond the big bang theory.
Ooooh I saw that episode of it's always sunny too
Science is a liar sometimes? Pack it up boys. It's iron clad.
I said all that while taking a shit
and which end did you type from?
Comparing "faith" in science to faith in religion in the 1800s is literally insane
I do think believing in religion in modern day is for people with pretty much zero critical thinking ability, but this meme is hilarious 😂
Yes, because the entirety of our ancestors lacked critical thinking skills. You truly are a superior human.
Yes exactly right. After Darwin and Kierkegaard the human collective consciousness has discovered that religion isn’t real. Our ancestors didn’t have the knowledge that we do today.
The average human today has a FAR SUPERIOR intellect compared to our ancestors lol... it wasnt that far back they were burning women at the stake because they thought they were witches 😂
Back then, MANY things were unexplainable. Some magic man in the sky wasn't that crazy.
Now, with some very basic thought process, the plot-hole ridden book written by people that lived in dirt huts 2000 years ago can be easily ruled out. This goes for any man-made religion/diety.
I do not understand your point. Are you under the impression bad and morally abhorrent things no longer happen? The holocaust wasn’t that long ago, and was committed by a rather advanced western nation.
As for your take on religion, it seems very surface level and dismissive. That of a five year old who had a bad experience at sunday school and a 5 minute YouTube video.
I'm referring to the reasoning behind it. They thought these women were magical beings, thus pretty stupid to think that... sorry, my point went over your head.
My take is dismissive because the fact that we spend any time actually debating that this fan-fiction book is reality, annoys the hell out of me lol.
Thankfully, the populous is getting MUCH less religious as time goes on, since it's pretty easy to come to the conclusion that it's nonsense lol
Reddit atheism is making a comeback (based). Prepare to be deboonked.