What Religion are you?

[MacX85]

In case you being an atheist, will you convert/join religion when the time comes? To cover all options you know, in case bullshit they preach has any merit. Won't hurt you the slightest bit, if you really don't believe in God you know there's nothing after you die so being principal about things is stupid anyway. No one will care about your personal belief after you drop the bucket, you have only tiny chances to gain something. That's what smart person would do.

I really don't care what happens after I'm dead. My guess is the same thing that happened for all the billion of years before my birth. I didn't care for them either.
Maybe reincarnation in any way is a possibility, who knows...

The question would be: how do you convert an atheist to a religion? You can't just start believing myths you thought were bs your whole life just because you decide to... You would still need convincing evidence.

[Vibe]

how do you convert an atheist to a religion?

you cause them brain damage with a sledgehammer to the face or something alike

[karasu]

you cause them brain damage with a sledgehammer to the face or something alike

Or show them this forum.

[Xant]

The sledgehammer would be the kinder, gentler option.

[Xant]

You can open your wallet and have a look.

Or remember opening your wallet and having a look recently. The 'hipster' can also lean over and see that within the entirety of your wallet there is no money present.

Not your best analogy.

You can look around the world and see there is no Abrahamic God. The 'hipster' can also look around the world and see that within the entirety of the world there is no Abrahamic God present.

Not your best attempt at refuting what I said.

[Xant]

No religions claim that the Abrahamic God is physically sitting somewhere on this planet for all to see.

No peanuts claim they're made out of butter.

[Armpit_Sweat]

You can look around the world and see there is no Abrahamic God. The 'hipster' can also look around the world and see that within the entirety of the world there is no Abrahamic God present.

Not your best attempt at refuting what I said.

That's not how gods work. They reveal themselves only to a very few select individuals, unseen and unheard by anyone else, and make those individuals write things down or tell to others. As omnipotent as they are, there is no need to waste too much energy on speaking to everyone on their specific level of comprehension, but rather whisper vague, abstract and often ridiculously irrelevant things in an ear of a chosen man. Women are rarely worth wasting time on. Gods are too busy building round rocks in space, and make them spin around each other.

[Xant]

That's not how gods work. They reveal themselves only to a very few select individuals, unseen and unheard by anyone else, and make those individuals write things down or tell to others. As omnipotent as they are, there is no need to waste too much energy on speaking to everyone on their specific level of comprehension, but rather whisper vague, abstract and often ridiculously irrelevant things in an ear of a chosen man. Women are rarely worth wasting time on. Gods are too busy building round rocks in space, and make them spin around each other.

That could be how some monies works too. We just can't know. Maybe they're invisible to some people, but reveal themselves to others? That's why I'm a money agnostic. Monaygnostic, if you will.

[MacX85]

That's not how gods work. They reveal themselves only to a very few select individuals, unseen and unheard by anyone else, and make those individuals write things down or tell to others.

Yes, very convenient.

[Xant]

Day 9383472: I'm fairly certain there are no rabbits in my glass of water. But I just can't be sure. Can I still call myself a vegan if I drink the water, despite not being sure a quantum rabbit in liquid form doesn't live within?

[Gurgumul]

Day 420xD69: I'm fairly certain that Earth is a flat surface, because nothing suggests otherwise.

[Xant]

Day 420xD69: I'm fairly certain that Earth is a flat surface, because nothing suggests otherwise.

I've got some bad news, buddy- you might be retarded. The roundness of Earth is observable with the naked eye.

[Gurgumul]

I've got some bad news, buddy- you might be retarded. The roundness of Earth is observable with the naked eye.

idk it seems pretty flat to me

[Yeldur]

I am pretty sure none of you agnostics use the methodology and standards you have used for the god hypothesis to decide your position on any other questions.

Are you an idiot? Of course we don't. We're talking about whether a higher being exists, not whether I have a shoe on or not.

The reason this methodology works is BECAUSE of the fact that WE DO NOT HAVE an answer to the question "Does a higher being exist?". I'm guessing you didn't bother reading the list of definitions that I so kindly gave to you. Might want to go take a look ;)

[Yeldur]

idk it seems pretty flat to me

earth confirmed for flat 2k16