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EU states can ban religious symbols in public workplaces
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It's not a belief at all
You believe that there is no god or gods, and that people shouldn't believe in them either. That is a belief.
Christians don't state there's no evidence for God, no idea where you pulled that one from. You'd have to believe that all of that evidence is invalid, and believing that religion in turn should be destroyed because you so whole-heartedly disagree with the evidence does require belief.
Christian evidence for God amounts to "because someone said so" + a vague sense that some force is working in their life. That's just animism with extra steps.
The "evidence" is a story in writings aged thousands of years... it is not something we can observe or have physical or visual proof of, all we have is words that go against all scientific evidence, so it's not "evidence". You have to actually believe in magic to believe in that kind of stuff, it holds as much salt as any other pseudoscientific garbage.
It's laughable to say that you must respect the beliefs of people into astrology or flat earth or electric universe or anything of the sorts, and it's just as laughable to say you have to respect the beliefs of people who believe in supranatural/divine beings. Because false beliefs actually cause harm, and religion especially has caused far more harm than any other pseudoscience (and the amount of good it may have done is extraordinarily outweighed), it is currently causing a lot of harm, and it will likely continue to cause great harm in the future.
I personally value the lives of hundreds of millions to billions of people more than appeasing some long outdated beliefs (and especially the people who exploit those beliefs for personal gain), but that's just me. I'm agnostic, I don't choose a belief, there might be some divine being or afterlife but I see that it's completely insane to propogate any of said beliefs, it causes suffering and has set us back potentially hundreds of years progress-wise.
Honestly all of humanity would probably have much less suffering if it weren't for organized religion and its consequences, including but not limited to either directly causing or being the biggest contributor to the far-right and fascism & corporatism, and a large amount of general imperialism/authoritarianism (divine right anybody?). Guys banging other guys was the norm in most of the world until Abrahamic religions came along and brainwashed the entirety of the west lol, then it became a heinous crime and caused a over a thousand years of suffering and oppression for gays, people of "heretic" religious beliefs, anyone that opposed the authorities of an organized religion, those who faced the wrath of most imperialism/conquest – which was generally propogated by religion (and would have been a lot less strong without religion scaring people with eternal damnation) in Europe and the Americas and even in Asia, and often in Africa, etc. etc. And now modern religion is once again making society try to regress.
On paper religion alone isn't bad, but people can't handle religion, up to this point humans just try to find things to hate each other for and religion is BY FAR the most successful & easy tool to use for that, nothing else comes even close, sure if religion was gone other things may go up in usage as reasons to arbitrarily hate others, but it won't have even near the power of religion, nothing's more effective than threatening people with fiery hell for them or their loved ones, or offering them eternal glory in the afterlife, or whatever, because that's forever and Earth life is temporary!
I don't believe there is are gods, or unicorns, or green elephants. "Don't believe" = "no belief".
And personally I couldn't care less what other people believe, as long as they keep it to themselves and don't bother anybody.
I don't believe that a God doesn't exist, so therefore no belief either. Who says you get to be the default?
Occam's Razor.
as Ricky Gervais put it the difference between a Christian or Muslim and an Atheist is to believe in exactly one less god than them, there are over 2000 gods believed in by various people, Christians don't believe in any of them, Atheists don't believe in any of them +1
Ah yes the universe came from nothing and time started by itself. Don't question it people or this man sends you to jail.
You clearly misunderstand what it is to be an atheist. The whole point is to question it. As new evidence (yes, it's based on evidence) surfaces, we change our "beliefs" accordingly.
Atheism is not belief in the big bang, atheism is belief in whatever scientific theory is currently best supported by evidence.
Atheism means that you say you are 100% certain there is no god. A-Theism. It's the word.
The problem is that there is still no clear evidence for the origins for time and the universe. You cannot start claiming god doesn't exist without having clear evidence for it
If a god exists, they're completely superfluous, unnecessary and not worthy of praise.
You say that, but you're alive. So I'm assuming that you do somewhat appreciate being alive since you haven't unalived yourself. You might even think it's pretty neat.
What absolute brainless nonsense is this? What's that even supposed to mean?
That God is the reason for my/your/our/Our existence, seems clear enough, you can refer to Aristotle or pretty much any other theologian on this topic.
See, believing in God was never irrational after all, you were just brainwashed by modernity(, on this topic as well).
Also, God is the Greatest being, by definition(, see St.Anselm ٱللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ), so S..He is also my/(y)our/Our/the Guide/Example/Light(house)/..
Delete your account, low life troll. Your kind is not welcome in this world.
You say that everything is unnecessary and unworthy of praise which equals saying life has no worth and is meaningless.
Yet you are still living so you seem to be finding worth and/or meaning in it.
They didn't say everything is superfluous, they said God is. You're conflating "God" with "everything", but understand that is far from a universal understanding of how the universe works. If you're not sure how the other person feels about this you need to ask instead of assuming they share the same definitions you do.
He is saying that creating life and the universe isnt't worthy of praise IF god exists.
Or am I misunderstanding this sentence?
Your two neurons seem to not grasp the idea that if a god exists, something must've made it so, which means we're back to the same problem as if no god existing. If such a god exists, they're no more important than random quantum fluctuations, and infinitely more sadistic.
cancer is alive, just saying...
Well if you insist on pedantry, "atheism" doesn't mean a belief that gods don't exist, it's a lack of belief in gods. Think "asexual": it's not an aversion to sex, just a lack of sex drive. You are describing antitheism, and many self-described atheists are actually antitheists.
Incorrect, you are the one with the spectacular claim and the burden of proof lies on you. Prove that gods exist.
Agnoticism is the word you are looking for. or "being agnostic".
agnostic
This entire comment chain is focused on banning religion and being 100% certain that god doesn't exist.
If you want to ban religion and claim god doesn't exist then the burden of evidence to disprove god lies with you. But you can start by creating something from nothing or reversing time.
Everybody (except some religious people) are agnostic about most things. That's why phenomema like gravity or electromagnetism are explained by "theories". God isn't even a theory in that sense.
It's scientifically close to impossible to prove the non-existence of something. Even green elephants.
As for time and space... I don't see the slightest evidence of "god did it". For me, the chance of finding a green Elephant seems way higher. Because it seems at least possible.
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No that's agnosticism