Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "ReligionForBreakfast" channel.

  1.  @yoryteperman429  If you've spoken to so many people, you should have noticed that "hardcore atheist" is a meaningless description and not contrasted with "agnostic" anyways. Just imagine your attitude towards Tlaloc. That is the attitude of most atheists towards your god. There is nothing hardcore about not believing in something at all. Furthermore your plane story is total nonsense. And if it was true it would say this: when people become irrational, they believe in what you believe. Makes me wonder why you keep telling yourself that story.
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  2.  @maxpayne3628  "Left religion"? Which one? Which one are you attempting to defend. If Dawkins contributed to people waking up, he deserves our praise.
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  3.  @madderverse  No. Telling people they're responsible for having been attacked is the exact opposite of facing reality. It's making up any lie whatsoever to blame the victim.
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  4. Shouldn't the first religions have features in common of all religions? So I don't see why the idea that animism is incestral is untestable. Also something being primitive doesn't mean it's less complex. It means it is more similar to some ancestral condition.
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  5.  @christinabutterfield1801  They are often believed in in the same way you believe in Giraffes. The belief itself is not elevated to a virtue, they are just honestly mistaken.
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  6.  @jqv666  It's absolutely despicable that you think spitting on victims is permissable as a coping mechanism for your psychological problems.
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  7.  @Spacemuffin147  >Knowing God is quite something. "Knowledge" is different from asserting. All you do is asserting and in a way that casts doubt on whether you even believe in your god at all. >Divide some numbers and they end up in the infinite. Complete nonsense and your assertion that something going to infinity has anything to do with your god is ridiculous.
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  8. The religion people mean when they hear religion is a belief system around some form of deity, whose adherents perform some form of rituals together. That's what religion has meant throughout time. Even when the deity is "nature" or a "life force", that still counts. EDIT: The "gains" in Africa and Asia are births. Ideas are always faster than births. You can have a thousand children for all I care. It can take as little as one generation for all of them to become nonbelievers.
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  9.  @jqv666  With imagined magical powers comes great cruelty. Your worldview is nothing but an extreme rejection of all compassion.
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  10.  @aforapple3821  Yes, you do believe in "personified gods". That's what a "spirit of x" is.
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  11. This applies to humans only though. It is extremely dishonest to pretend that early Christians thought of other beings. Buddhism can pride itself on that, but not the Abrahamic religions.
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  12. Pfft what?! A scholar of religion should have ZERO respect for what he is studying. Imagine any other form of scientist did that. It's bad enough when a layperson has "respect" for a religion.
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  13.  @boonboon5448  Trying to overcome suffering with insight. vs Worshiping the creator of all suffering, who plans to create an infinity of more suffering. Yeah religions ain't the same. "Salvation" as just being on the good side of the bully and giving up all hope or intention to help others.
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  14. There's exceptions to everything.
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  15. @Great1Duane Your ideology is one of pure arrogance, that elevates arrogance to such monstrous proportions that you have to do away with compassion altogether.
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  16.  @shaunsnowmusic33  "The facts" contradict every single religion. If you "respect" any religion, you are departing from "the facts".
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  17.  @night6724  You need an axiom of induction... therefore you can just make up whatever you want and stop updating your believes... That's definitely what Hume said, yes.
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  18.  @schtufe11  It's obviously untrue. It's just also extremely wicked.
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  19. Some members of the Boxer rebellion strongly believed they were immune to bullets, which made them particularly easy to shoot.
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  20. There is no "true self" and "societal and self imposed psychological/behavioral limitations" are just parts of what causes your behavior.
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  21. The texts don't say that they took some form though. And we have inhabitants of heaven lusting after human women and having offspring with them. Most plausibly angels and most other inhabitants of heaven were originally supposed to look just like humans.
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  22. And to simultaneously look down on everyone less fortunate and to spit on victims of violence.
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  23.  @frantisekhajek6775  The trinity isn't three aspects of one deity. That's considered a heresy by modern Christians.
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  24. Of course he wouldn't have been the most famous person at the time...
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  25.  @Serocco  No. The "point" people think they are making is that popular depictions of angels are not biblical and tgey in fact look more exotic. Instead if anything popular depictions are wrong because they give them wings when most angels just look like regular humans without wings.
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  26. That's you projecting virtues on a historical figure, you can't possibly know he actually had, just like Buddhists project magical abilities on him.
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  27. That's precisely the point of the story: he didn't come to accept a bad state of the world as a child, so he was ready to do sth about it when it shocked him as an adult. Many children abused by their parents think that all parents abuse their children. They think it's "natural" and don't seek a way out. Your defeatism is precisely the problem.
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  28.  @buzztube1738  This. He's thinking of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, but they all have a common root. Their gods didn't develop separately, but are the same character.
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  29. Merely "including practices we would consider secular" doesn't mean sth is not a religion. Also the concept of religion itself comes from the West, that's not one idea of religion, that's what religion means: myths, rules and common practices.
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  30. 1. Cars are very diverse, but when you get under the tires, your fate is the same. 2. Christianity and Islam are still in favour of slavery. It's just that many people, who call themselves Christians or Muslims, do not agree with this part of the religion anymore. 3. That's finally a good point. Many people overlook that religions come with a load of believes about the world, which influence every aspect of our lives.
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  31. What you are saying is like: "Polio is bad, therefore we shouldn't teach anyone about polio." Education on religion =/= education into the religion.
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  32.  @MobiusMundUr  I embody the stereotype of verbally demolishing your friend's feeble apologetics and you having no response. And I've deliberately avoided any sort of snarkiness or aggressive rethoric before - apparently it makes no difference. The fragility of your delusions makes any sort of disagreement "shameful behavior".
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  33. A mind completely untouched by education.
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  34. No, it's a result of people being unwilling to judge and reject religions. So instead of rejecting buddhism, they insist that their own cherrypicked version is the "true" buddhism. The same happens in Christianity sans colonialism.
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  35.  @nhunguyen091  That's a cute head canon, but it's not biblical. Originally the inhabitants of heaven, including God and his angels, were probably supposed to look just like humans.
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  36.  @ivo2781  No, that's not likely at all and having different numbers of faces or eyes on something isn't hard to think of. Moreover the origin of mythical creatures is typically older mythical creatures, not people just making them up in their final form.
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  37. True. It's like saying that someone is religious for saying "bless you" after someone sneezes.
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  38. By the time the Paul's letters were written the first versions of Genesis had probably been lost for centuries already. To speak of a "original" bible is nonsense.
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  39. When you pray and it doesn't happen, it's the god's fault, though. The manifesters blame individual victims for their misfortune, not a lack of sacrifices or rituals.
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  40. Me. People can easily be 100% resistant to new information. You can give someone a text that disagrees with their position diametrically. They can say that they understand and agree with the text. But if you quiz them, they still hold their old position. So something can seem profound to a person without them understanding any of it nor changing their prior opinions.
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  41.  @danielpaulson8838  Not everything is a metaphor. It's not far fetched for a young man to leave his home, especially if wandering holymen are already a thing in the culture.
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  42.  @Ravi9A  I can 100% reject Islam and be for giving alms. There's no tension there. It's almost impossible for a religion to get EVERYTHING wrong.
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  43. I'm an U-Boot football fan. I surface once every two years.
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  44. There is plenty of mystery religions even today.
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  45. Does that mean that Egyptian women were into crocodiles?
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  46. "What you do" is part of "the hand you've been dealt".
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  47. Compassion is a "limiting belief" only for psychopaths.
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  48.  @ReligionForBreakfast  That would be the worst case scenario, but given the apparent lack of civilizations in the universe, I'd say that we likely will never meet anyone, let alone soon enough that there will still be religions around.
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  49.  @jackred2362  But faith based religions are quite new and even their adherents like to think that they have good reasons. So it might be that this is a fluke and faith based religion will be replaced with honest misconceptions in the future.
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  50. @ReligionForBreakfast I agree. We can't act as though everyone's turned into strict empiricists, when they still hold religious believes outside of the established confessions.
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