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Nobody has been attacking Christians.
That is not true at all. They have been getting oppressed and/or massacred in the Middle East for quite some time now
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Nobody has been attacking Christians.
Actually, it is Christianity that is disappearingAtheism could eventually die out says US researchers | Daily Mail Online
According to this article and others, it is atheism, rather than "religion" as so ambiguously defined which seems to be dying out worldwide; thoughts on this?
As a worldview, atheism is worthless and nilhistic, so it has nought but to die, if to do anything at all, as far as I've been able to see.
Atheism could eventually die out says US researchers | Daily Mail Online
According to this article and others, it is atheism, rather than "religion" as so ambiguously defined which seems to be dying out worldwide; thoughts on this?
As a worldview, atheism is worthless and nilhistic, so it has nought but to die, if to do anything at all, as far as I've been able to see.
Same for Islam. And Buddhism.It is pretty amazing how much the underground church has grown in China, in a phenomenal way.
Right, humans have a tendency to believe utter nonsense.Atheism could eventually die out says US researchers | Daily Mail Online
According to this article and others, it is atheism, rather than "religion" as so ambiguously defined which seems to be dying out worldwide; thoughts on this?
As a worldview, atheism is worthless and nilhistic, so it has nought but to die, if to do anything at all, as far as I've been able to see.
Absolutely. Atheism will die out. I'm convinced of that, just from looking at China and Russia.
Both countries had atheism as a national policy for decades, and yet the moment the policy was repealed, both countries are now with growing religious faiths. In Russia, where brutal atheism was enforced, now barely 12 of Russians are Atheists. Even in China where 70% are 'non-religious', that is actually misleading, since non-religious include hundreds of millions of people who practice local folk-religions.
So the reality is, even in the most entrenched groups of Atheistic thinking.... very few, very few at all, are actually Atheist.
How many people die convinced they will end up nowhere?
No, it's a fact.Did you just pull that out of thin air, or what? I
Yep, a good sign that all of you religious nutters are wrong.Yes, and every person who believes in utter nonsense at that time... says everyone else is believing utter nonsense.
Yep, a good sign that all of you religious nutters are wrong.Yes, and every person who believes in utter nonsense at that time... says everyone else is believing utter nonsense.
No, it's a fact.Did you just pull that out of thin air, or what? I
The State of Religion in China
You "read somewhere", eh? Looks like you're the one pulling stiff out of his ass.
Most people can't even say what they "are" to begin with. and said arguments are generally contradictory.How many people die convinced they will end up nowhere?
How many people die convinced they will end up somewhere?
Most people can't even say what they "are" to begin with. and said arguments are generally contradictory.How many people die convinced they will end up nowhere?
How many people die convinced they will end up somewhere?
As an example, when a person's body dies, nothing is "created or destroyed" materially speaking, the atoms or molecules are simply arranged into a different forum. So given that no matter or energy was created or destroyed to begin with, how can "they" be said to be gone?
The fact that they're even asserting this to begin with is proof that they're acknowledging that what makes them "them" to begin with is not reducible solely to the matter and energy which composes their physical forum, as it is not "gone" in any sense when they die.
Much as other questions, such as what makes their body or their "brain", or whatever "theirs" to begin with - implying that it's an ownership of the thing, rather than them being directly conflatable with the thing itself.
Likewise, the statement that when you die, existence ends is silly, as this would be solipsism; if "existence" ends, when you die, then this not only means that you cease to exist, but that everyone else does as well.
If you counter that, and assert that only you cease to exist, but not everyone else, how would you be able to know this if you do not exist? Hence why this strain of thought would easily degenerate into solipsism, epistemological nihilism, or some other absurdist strain of thought.
.Most people can't even say what they "are" to begin with. and said arguments are generally contradictory.How many people die convinced they will end up nowhere?
How many people die convinced they will end up somewhere?
As an example, when a person's body dies, nothing is "created or destroyed" materially speaking, the atoms or molecules are simply arranged into a different forum. So given that no matter or energy was created or destroyed to begin with, how can "they" be said to be gone?
The fact that they're even asserting this to begin with is proof that they're acknowledging that what makes them "them" to begin with is not reducible solely to the matter and energy which composes their physical forum, as it is not "gone" in any sense when they die.
Much as other questions, such as what makes their body or their "brain", or whatever "theirs" to begin with - implying that it's an ownership of the thing, rather than them being directly conflatable with the thing itself.
Likewise, the statement that when you die, existence ends is silly, as this would be solipsism; if "existence" ends, when you die, then this not only means that you cease to exist, but that everyone else does as well.
If you counter that, and assert that only you cease to exist, but not everyone else, how would you be able to know this if you do not exist? Hence why this strain of thought would easily degenerate into solipsism, epistemological nihilism, or some other absurdist strain of thought.
As an example, when a person's body dies, nothing is "created or destroyed" materially speaking, the atoms or molecules are simply arranged into a different forum. So given that no matter or energy was created or destroyed to begin with, how can "they" be said to be gone?