Quote Originally Posted by Oh My High
I'm an atheist but like 95% of atheists I was raised in a religious background (in my case, evangelical Christianity) and used to believe in god. I spent five years as an agnostic, which I see as a period of transition people go through before they accept full atheism. It's a logical process to go from theism to atheism because it's based upon the evaluation of logic, reasoning, and evidence. It's blind to cultural bias. However, my point is theists cannot say the same. Christians would be Hindus if they were born in India and Muslims would be Mormons with those silly magic underpants if they were born in Salt Lake City. They believe what they believe because of their emotions shaped by their cultural biases. It's easily anticipated someone will say "But that's not true, what about people who switch religions?" Same difference, the choices are made out of emotion and not rationality.
Well then according to you the only rational and free minded choice would be to be an atheist and that is where your argument is flawed

It is true that there are many regions of the world susceptible to a certain religion and cultural bias does influence the percentages of religions but that would raise the question of how religions started. If what you say is true then there couldnâ??t be any other religions since humanity was all born in the same region and also the fact the you assume everyone in India is Hindu and everyone in salt lake city is Mormon makes you look like an asshole

Religion serves one purpose and one purpose only, to explain the unexplainable, that is how the first religions were started and why they were mostly polytheistic. as the human mind expanded and began to explain these things religions became more and more hard to refute and as more and more people began to believe in certain religions other people saw the opportunity to use this to their own gains (this is where all the politics the apparently forms the basis of every religion comes in)

Blind faith is one of the most important aspects of the major Abrahamic religions but even though you wouldnâ??t like to admit it is also a major aspect of atheism

if an atheist didnâ??t truly with all aspects of his being believe that it is impossible for there to be a god then he wouldnâ??t be an atheist so you sir have blind faith that there is no god, and if your a scientific atheist then there are even more things that you blindly believe in called theories

the major flaw of religions is that they are man made and there has yet to be something thought of or created by man that is perfect including your argument
Quincyboy Reviewed by Quincyboy on . The fundamental flaw in religion as I see it I should start off by saying that I consider myself agnostic, as I acknowledge the possibility that there may be a higher power out there somewhere but I certainly wouldn't say I believe in a god. Now, I could write volumes about how preposterous the notion of religion is (for this discussion I will focus exclusively on the Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), but the fundamental flaw I referred to in the thread title revolves around one question for you religious Rating: 5