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faorex:
I feel so much pain tonight. .

But no matter the situation... we did our best but FIFA is so biased. ..

The level of racism is so glaring but that is topic for another day.

dalaman:
I went through an old post of an old atheist here and got this from there, he gave his reasons why he's an atheist and I completely agree with them.

Maybe others can share the reasons why they are atheist. This shouldn't be about any conversion stories. Just simply state why you are an atheist.

Below are the reasons he outlined:


*There is not one iota of unequivocal evidence that any God exists. . . .God remains just an idea, a conception, a perception and a claim that requires belief to sustain it.

*God cannot explain all that exists because God itself cannot be explained. This claim just gratuitously swaps one mystery for another.

*Religions do not fully explain any mechanism or process whereby God created anything. It is effectively an appeal to magic they tell you to just believe. For example how exactly did God create the planet, all you get are just wishy washy appeal to magic.

*Religious faith is generally indistinguishable from gullibility. Trust and faith as human concepts, are normally based on experience and reason. Religious faith is necessarily based on belief in unproved and unknowable things.

* Religious faith has never been tested objectively and shown to work.

*A God or anything that exists outside the realm of natural reality is necessarily unknowable, unintelligible and incoherent. It is therefore irrational to believe in something that is said to be supernatural and beyond the ability to be tested and be objectively shown to be real.

*Religious scripture:
* is completely man-made
*contains many translation, historical and scientific and interpretation errors
* is often self-contradictory
* often contradicts known facts
*promotes conversion by violence
*contains many narratives that are purely mythical
* calls for punishment and death to unbelievers, why should people be punished for unbelief in stories that lack evidence?
*contains virtually no specific and unequivocal predictions
* is always subject to personal interpretation and opinion
* Was written by ancient men that didn't know much about the world and the universe in general
*contains only vague predictions beyond its own time
*contains many failed prophecies, predictions and unfulfilled promises of God
*Isn't universally objective as should be assuming it is from a divine source that wants to pass a message to humans.
*Scripture contains too much that is vague, metaphorical and symbolic to be instructions from a divine being to humans. A perfect being would be expected to be able to communicate much better than that.

*In order to render most of scripture useful, it must necessarily be interpreted. This makes it easily twisted to support nefarious purposes.

*The problems with scriptures outweigh any good messages they may contain. If read at all, they should be considered opinion and philosophy and that's all that there is to it.

*Morals are based on human sympathy, empathy, what will lead to a stable and less chaotic society and not on divine guidance. it varies from culture to culture, period in history and is always evolving. Establishing moral codes based on theism is unnecessary, riddled with contradictions, and fraught with danger. Reason is what humans are supposed to use to guide them when making moral choices and decisions not ancient rules written by people whose civilization and way of life is outdated.

*Religion is divisive in that it pits groups of otherwise indistinguishable people against one another. There are already more than enough differences for humans to fight over. And religion is the most intransigent of such divisions because many people feel it is a divine duty to revile those who believe differently than they do even if they don't see the reason in it. God hates the disbelievers or the disbeliever are condemned is what is written in most scriptures.

*Religions are generally intractable when it comes to substantive compromise with other religions or belief systems.

*All suggested ways to perceive God rely on internal mechanisms that are subject to personal desires, suggestion, and mistakes. On the question of communicating with God, religion insidiously asks us all to deceive ourselves. If God or Gods communicates to people as they claim then why are they always receiving and sending different messages that are mostly contradictory even within the same religious group?


*Every culture that has existed has had God myths and other superstitions. This is often used as an argument for the existence of God. Rather than indicating that there is a true God, this indicates that people are simply attracted to the idea and people easily form the idea.


*Goodness, truth, wisdom and all other purported attributes of God are human concepts. When applied to a presumed entity so completely different in kind as to be supernatural, they are meaningless. The idea of God is thus incoherent.

*Infinity is a concept humans cannot comprehend except in a limited mathematical sense. If God is infinite, this also renders him unintelligible.

*Belief in an afterlife is insidious, besides there is no evidence to show the human consciousness survives bodily death.

*Organized religion wastes untold amounts of money and resources that could be used to care for people, promote real knowledge, and advance the human race.

*Theism puts God above people thereby making people subservient, unimportant and expendable.

*Religion relies on guilt, fear, uses threat and outlandish promises to gain obedience.

*Religion is like racism because it segregates people.

*Theism generally precludes any possibility of testing God or questioning his existence substantively and objectively. It is something like the wizard of Oz saying, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

*The methods used in proselytizing for religion bear an unmistakable resemblance to the methods of confidence men. But the scriptures consider this the great commission of mankind.

*There are many good rational and logical arguments against theism but not one argument in favor of it that doesn't rely on a fallacy, assumption or special pleading.

*There are so many Gods put forth by thousands of religions that no one could ever be certain of picking the correct one, assuming that one exists.

*Prayer is totally subjective and cannot be shown to have any more efficacy than pure chance.

*There is no discernible difference between believing in God and having an imaginary friend.

*People generally rely on facts and evidence in every human endeavor except religion.

*Unequivocal miracles do not occur. example Gods do not heal amputees and restore their amputated limbs or babies born with down syndrome.

*God supposedly speaks directly to the human spirit. This must be, at least partly, the same concept as mind. People who receive messages in their minds are invariably delusional.

*There is no positive correlation between belief in God and being a moral person.


*Religions have a long history of misogyny.

*Religious dogma is practically immune to the incorporation of new facts. The best it can do is strained reinterpretation.

* Children have to be indoctrinated with religion at a very early age.

*The argument that God cannot be proven not to exist is irrelevant when one considers that to do so requires that the concept of a supernatural God be intelligible and coherent, which it is not.

*There is a well known argument commonly called "The Problem of Evil". It basically says that if an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God exists, unnecessary or gratuitous evil would not exist in the world. Thus if God sees this type of evil and does nothing he is either not omnibenevolent because he doesn't care or not omnipotent because he is unable to stop it. There are many counter-arguments that have been used. However the only one that really could defeat the Problem of Evil is if one says that we cannot apply human standards to decide what is or is not gratuitous evil. This may well be true, but that argument renders God unintelligible and meaningless to humans. Either way, the concept of God seems to be highly doubtful.

*Theists claim that God has given humans free will. However, this free will is anything but free. The choices are forced on pain of death and eternal suffering. It is equivalent to having a slave and saying something like: "I grant you your freedom to leave at any time. But if you do, I will torture you mercilessly and kill you as slowly as possible."

Mekanus:
This country is a joke, just imagine the kind of silly and dumb stories we keep hearing everyday.

PamaB:
Religion makes people Myopic. Religion only divides.Nigeria will be a more prosperous country if we dump religion.

sKeetz:
I like the way Christians on this thread have used their common sense to call out the bullshït of their fellow religionist. I mean knowing the number of joints in a human body is not rocket science.

But I bet if it were about Jesus or Yahweh, their brain would go into airplane mode and they'll say anything to defend their skydaddy.

footballflaver:
make eagles use their head sha

niyot124:
Yeah she's cute alright, if MANLY is the new "cute"

Only biafra can indeed offer this

Zoharariel:
Freeze, Sango & Obatala are solidly behind you.

Any hypocritic bastard who tells you "Touch not my annointed" shall die horribly in your stead.

hizson:
Good day nairaland family. Please I need help and suggestions about where I could submit IT letter either in Kaduna or Abuja. I am quantity survey student so I definitely need either a construction company or a quantity surveying firm where you feel I can get invaluable knowledge and experience and probably small pay but please note experience and knowledge is my priority here thank you.mods please kindly help me out to get more suggestions thank you.

tobbielessbabe:
I think it s3 cox am planning on buy s3 on monday

jaychubi:
To live is for Christ and to die is gain

Olodo op give ur life to Christ and stop asking stupid question

D purpose if life is to prepare us for eternal life if only we accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal saviour

HappyPagan:
Love you Josh but we just have to agree to disagree.

I have something I value. You have something you don't... You want Christ mind. I want my mind. I lack the required faith necessary to believe your tales. Maybe, one day, my eyes will close to reason and open to faith. Till then, your Jewish tale remains a mythical one.

NwaAmaikpe:



Men stare at imbeciles too.
Men shag madwomen too.

It doesn't mean they find them attractive, it only means men will be men.
And naive women like you always think men want much more than your kitty.

IamLEGEND1:
True, that is.
but somehow, the CGI in Nigerian movies still can't measure up to 'a new hope'.

IamLEGEND1:
Go with my first list then.
but keep in my mind the fact that some plot twists that were supposed to shock audiences back then will be spoiled for you.
like how Darth Vader is looks father (sorry)
but if you don't mind any of that, then proceed as previously intended starting with "The Phantom Menace" .

johnydon22:
Humans have been doing this all the time. All the fruits you know of today were directly created due to the influence of humans. Bananas did not taste like they do now before, apples, oranges, strawberries, all these fruits are totally different and tastes different from their ancestors and this was because of humans and the factor of artificial selection.

This is also true for domesticated animals like cows, dogs and horses etc.

How so?

I'm pretty sure modern biotechnologies can print or grow organs in the lab.

What point is this supposed to make brother?

I disagree.

I also disagree. We understand oxygen well enough down to its atomic compositions.

This is also incorrect.

Tree augmented by soil nutrients.

Good point, could be compared to our solar panels today. Even though there are other likely alternatives.

How did you get to know this creator so well that you know the creator has a name?

Yes we can, even you can. Water is not a mystery.

This is not really a good argument brother

Isomerizm:
What's the difference please?

nwabekeyi:
My dear, any genetic biologist can create a creature but the problem is what kinda creature will you end up creating and again, there are strict lows barring them from doing such, for the sake of humanity and inteferring with nature...

Give me a suitable laboratory and ask me to make a living thing, I will do it, it's just all about creating a stabilized genetic sequence and expressing the genes but like I said, that might be detrimental to the existence of humanity.

And again, the concept of sweet and bitter fruit is explanable by the genetic characterized of the plants involved.

You eat plants, have you asked yourself why you are not made of plants?

IamLEGEND1:



iv. A new hope
v. The empire strikes back
vi. Return of the Jedi

i. The phantom menace
ii. Attack of the clones
iii. Revenge of the sith

vii. The force awakens

* rogue one
viii. The last Jedi

apparently there is a young Han Solo standalone coming out soon.....as I haven't seen it, I can't really say where exactly it falls chronologically. But if you're into animations, you can catch up on the 'clone wars' which as you can guess by now takes place parallel to 'Attack of the clones'.
And of cause 'Rebels' which ended recently, spans the time period from the aftermath of "Revenge of the sith" to the immediate aftermath of 'Rogue one'.
personally, I found the animated series' to be quite helpful in filling some of the time gaps between the movies.
That's all I've got, bruh..... hope it's helpful enough.

ayotoyin:
I am a qualified Quantity Surveyor. Please, the course is good especially when you are very good in reading and able to interpret drawings, measurement, valuation and final account. The profession is not only limited to consultancy, you can also work in construction companies be it Mechanical, Electrical, Aluminium, oil and gas etc. Just be good in it and you will enjoy it. register with NIQS on time so you can start with your logbook after graduation for exam purposes. Best of luck.

bjayx:
Do U feel sensation wen masturbating
Av U felt sensation during sex before U started masturbating Did U feel any slight changes in Ur ding during Ur last two sexcapades

cassidy1996:
fine woman


where is funmi Adams? I play Omolasho....all day

ps3o:
It ranges from 85k and above

sotall:
I stopped reading when the whole explanation was beginning to sound redundant.

Too many assumptions and cyclic redundancy in your explanation

enemyofprogress:
is she your wife?

enemyofprogress:
is she your wife?

enemyofprogress:
The girl no even fine mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeew

ps3o:
the only limit you is your fear. I have a client whom i developed a forum for. he had a vision that it would span the time he had. though two months when he started, there was little or no result. just under a year,his site can boast of 10000 users. the key is CONSISTENCY with FAITH. don't forget that the project will cost u time, money and people to keep your hope alive