Coincidence and God

[SimuLord]

We might as well be different species, theists and atheists. Our thought process is completely at odds and we don't speak the same language.

True. We look at the world, then decide what to believe. You decide what to believe, then fit it into the world.

I know we often sound arrogant, that's because we are. It's hard not to be when you are pretty sure you are right.

You really believe that's what religion is about? Fundamentalist monotheism, maybe, but the implication that religious folks have turned our brains off in service of our gods is both ignorant and completely at odds with reality.

Allow me to steal a line from my Christian friends: "I pray for your soul." And pity your lack of one. Oooh, paradox!

 

[Dense_Electric]

You really believe that's what religion is about? Fundamentalist monotheism, maybe, but the implication that religious folks have turned our brains off in service of our gods is both ignorant and completely at odds with reality.

Allow me to steal a line from my Christian friends: "I pray for your soul." And pity your lack of one. Oooh, paradox!

1. What is religion about?

2. Souls don't exist. You don't have one either.

The irony of your argument is hilarious - you critsize religious people for speaking with too much authority on something they can't know to be true, and yet you do the exact same thing. You don't know that souls or gods don't exist anymore than I do know they exist. You said it yourself, you are pretty damn arrogant.