Sxcriley: read the whole thread. Trotsky's an agnostic. He's talking about having been raised a Christian, but then coming to question it. From what I gather, he's already dismissed Christian dogma as impossible, but not necessarily the existence of some sort of god. There, now you're up to speed.

Disproving Christianity doesn't make me feel good. Dissuading theists from being theists does. Reinforces my ailing belief in the logic and reason of mankind; and by "logic and reason" I mean nihilist optimism.

Artiste: lol at ur karma. is that a joke? how is it even possible. and in response to ur post i wasnt being ignorant and asking stupid questions i was asking for clarification (and btw i wasnt asking u anyway..)

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Disproving Christianity doesn't make me feel good. Dissuading theists from being theists does. Reinforces my ailing belief in the logic and reason of mankind; and by "logic and reason" I mean nihilist optimism.

just out of curiosity how many christians hav u dissuaded so far? and of those (if any) how many hav become nihilist optimists, like urself?
and also: how is the logic and reason of mankind a world without religon?

titojtd: i meant in general; but of course u knew that (hence ur &quot;sorry to be a smartass&quot; remark...)<br /><br />Post edited by: Sxcriley, at: 2007/07/08 04:46

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To anyone who constantly tries to disprove Christianity: what compels you to do this? Do you feel like your helping people? Just a general question, I'm seriously not trying to create an argument or anything...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Post edited by: Sxcriley, at: 2007/07/05 22:01

No one here is claiming (at least, from what I can tell) that Christianity (or any other religion) can be &quot;disproved.&quot;

You can't prove that god exists, and you can't prove that he doesn't.

By the same token, you can't prove or disprove the Flying Spaghetti monster, Invisible Pink Unicorn, Thor, Ra, Jupiter, Odin, or any of the other thousands of gods that humans have ever &quot;had faith&quot; in.

My point, here, is that I cannot disprove your god, but the owness is not on me to do so. I am not making any positive claims. You're the one claiming that god exists: the owness is on you to prove it, not me to disprove it.

As for our motivation for questioning your religion (which is what we are doing), I would say it's because we care about what's true.

borto: lol well im soo sorry i used the wrong word!
anyway i havent created any threads declaring that i am proving gods existence. i hav only ever responded to ppl who are degrading christianity.

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borto: lol well im soo sorry i used the wrong word!
anyway i havent created any threads declaring that i am proving gods existence. i hav only ever responded to ppl who are degrading christianity.

And we haven't created any declaring that we are disproving his existence. This thread started off simply asking the atheists and agnostics on theGYC to make themselves known, just as COUNTLESS other threads have done the same for almost every religion.

Stating our position and asking for evidence before believing something isn't &quot;degrading&quot; anything.<br /><br />Post edited by: borto, at: 2007/07/08 18:13

borto: ur confusing! are we talking about just this post or all posts on religon. cuz at first it sounded like the latter and now u sound like ur speaking on the former.
fine i will replace my word again: &quot;i hav only ever responded to ppl who are questioning christianity&quot;

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i understand ur reasoning, but who are u benefiting?

imo; Christians as a whole, atheists, women, homosexuals, workers, humanity.

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Palachinov:
i understand ur reasoning, but who are u benefiting?

imo; Christians as a whole, atheists, women, homosexuals, workers, humanity.

Post edited by: Palachinov, at: 2007/07/09 05:20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Post edited by: Palachinov, at: 2007/07/09 05:20

so in ur opinion ur helping christians (i can understand how u think u r): but how r u helping women (sexist?), homosexuals and workers (humanity i spose that links to christians, and atheists i suppose its a bit like &quot;one for the team&quot. why did u list these other groups (christians, homosexuals and workers) in particular?

Religion is just an excuse to guide the masses. People with bad intentions in mind will find something else, say, TV.

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but how r u helping women (sexist?)

Exactly, most organised religion is patriarchal and sexist. The Christian view of humanity is based quite strongly on &quot;the Fall&quot;, and puts a lot of blame upon Eve, that first woman, the one who persuaded Adam (the righteous man) to take the forbidden fruit and thus doomed all mankind.
And not just Christianity mind you, Islam is very sexist also, for example, in the case of the hijab, or burkha, even if the woman wishes to wear it, why is it her who must be modest, and cover herself up? Surely should it not be the responsibility of the man to not be seduced so much by the woman that he wishes to rape her? And then the taking of 4 wives (I believe it is 6 for Saudi Kings), women are practically treated as property; well thats marriage in general.

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homosexuals and workers

Well you probably guessed why homosexuals. Most religions have been extremely homophobic, and still are.
The workers I mentioned because I believe religion to be misleading, usually in favour of the ruling class. Most denominations preach class collaboration, and uphold old reactionary traditions.
In addition to that, religion is not based upon materialism and hard evidence, or even a logical base, which is worthless in this scientific world we live in.