Religion on the Brain?

ylooshi »

Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:23 am Agree: 7   Disagree: 0

tpique1,

Your opinion of atheism appears to be one in which you have come to a conclusion and seek only to pidgenhole atheists into it. Your opinion is utterly and completely wrong when you state "atheism affirms a negative." Atheism is merely the state of being that we are all born into before we become indoctrinated by the cultural memes of religion. If one is lucky enough to become enlightened after this indoctrination, or if this indoctrination isn't complete, the believer may one day return to that state of refusing to accept the positive claim of theists.

I, like most atheists, state that there is no good reason to accept your theistic claim. A lack of understanding of the universe, claimed by most theists is a terribly fallacious reason to accept a god. Indeed, even if I were to accept that a god were needed in the universe, that hardly gets me from there to your particular notion of a god. To accept such a god would be a massive non sequitur.

On the subject of logical fallacy, I note that you're quite familiar with them. You've made an attempt to poison the well by associating Richard Dawkins' well-argued "mind virus" analogy of religious indoctrination to Adolf Hitler in a manner that would make Godwin proud (google Godwin's Law). But your argument is doubly fallacious in that even if Hitler et al did see religion as a virus more than a tool for genocide as they did, it doesn't imply that religion does not behave like a virus.

You say atheism is evil. You fail miserably at demonstrating this claim but succeed in showing a certain measure of expected bigotry.

-Yenald Looshi