Its the same concept. Believing in something just because you can't disprove it. Let me ask you this: |
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The flying spaghetti monster was created by some angry atheist, angry with religion. It was made out of scorn essentially. |
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Its the same concept. Believing in something just because you can't disprove it. Let me ask you this: |
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The serious reason being that they didn't have science to explain the nature of things to them, so they resorted to calling it "the work of God". |
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No, it isn't the same thing. UM is just expressing which things he would like to believe. I would like to believe that Dr. Pepper doesn't exist, yet it undeniably does. I operate under the belief that Dr. Pepper exists while also not liking that it exists. There is no "picking and choosing" here. |
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How has it been disproven? Has anyone jumped out of a plane and truly believed they would sprout wings and fly? And to quote you when I brought up people believing science: |
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Wishful thinking? Gee, who saw that coming from a thread called "Atheists do you wish you could beleive in god?" Let's speak more broadly and say it's having a reality which suits personal fancies. Mine excludes Dr. Pepper and UM's excludes a certain god and place called hell. That these realities suit our fancies does not mean we actually believe them to be so. |
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Let me riddle you this also: |
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We were talking about a hypothetical concept right? How would it have been disproven in reality? |
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Ok, then if Religion was created by Man, that means Man created God, not the otherway around.... so... Why exactly are you arguing if your saying this? |
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Really, both are events percieved by man through his five senses. Have you heard of cognitive biases Stephent? Now why is one created and one discovered? |
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