Well, yeah, obviously. I never said I’d be happy about it, but I’d rather worship than spend eternity enduring the worst kinds of torture imaginable.
You’re going to spend an eternity enduring the worst kinds of torture imaginable (and unimaginable) if a god exists that is as wrathful as most people believe anyway. Why? Well, this unimaginably petty deity would see right through your little charade of worshiping so you wouldn’t have to endure that torture and torture you anyway.
What are you talking about? I was saying 90% of humanity does not have any scientific knowledge of the structure of the universe that I had explained in that post due too poor (or no) education.
And I’m saying that you’ve went onto a completely irrelevant subject. I was talking about deities and you’re talking about the scientific structure of the universe.
It’s worth a shot, amirite?
You’re the one coming with questions about a post YOU misunderstood.
What is an athesists stance on Thetans (in Scientology)? And alien life in the universe?
I would ignore it, even if he had supernatural powers and called himself god, why? Because that single move would immediately disprove religion.
When I look at religion and its rules I realize that priests try to rationalize the lack of proof of any deity’s existence by telling people that it is a test of faith.
Now if god comes up to me saying ’ hey! I’m god! acknowledge me! ’ then I would have all the more proof that the priests were lying about it all, and they had no idea what they were saying, because he was as close as it comes to their god, doing exactly the opposite he was supposed to! knowing that, would it be far fetched to think they were also wrong about hell and heaven, praying, fasting and all that comes with a religion?
Thetans are bullshit, as is everything else associated with Scientology.
And I think that it’s very likely that there is alien life in the universe, in fact, chances that there isn’t are extremely small.
As an atheist myself I firmly believe in the existance of life outside this solar system. The simple fact that one galaxy alone can contain over a trillion planets pretty much makes it obvious that there is millions, if not billions of civilizations out there besides our own - many that may have vanished in the past billions of years and many that have surpassed us in terms of technology.
The time we live in is perfect, at this point we are capable of observing the universe for what it is, in 100 billion years no matter where you are you will no longer be able to observe the universe apart from your own galaxy because it will have expanded beyond the limit of the visible universe. This civilization would observe the universe as a “flat, infinitely large universe with no beginning nor end”.
In other words, this makes the preservation of all our technological data extremely important.
There’s only one thing between us and the billions of civilizations out there: distance - the universe is simply so big that even at the maximum velocities our laws of nature would allow it is impossible to travel to another world outside this solar system (let alone galaxy).
Then again, who knows what technology will bring us. (I talk too much)
I don’t share your views on what we will be able to see in 100 billion years. Observatories have noted to the universe is made up of galaxy clusters, containing 3 or 4 galaxies paired up together, and that all galaxies in the past 500 millions years have been moving towards what is believed to be a ’ supercluster ’ of thousands of galaxies, so in a hundred billion years, even though it is 100000000000% impossible to predict what the universe will look like then, there is some chance that it will not have expanded beyond the reaches of our astronomical lenses.
Also, about the part that some aliens are better than us with technology, i’m just throwing this out there, but we may be better off if catholicism hadn’t threatened to hang anyone who ressearched any other explanation of the world that went against the bible’s :rolleyes:
Isn’t this the “Ask an Atheist!!!” thread? I thought this is where I would go to ask an atheist something like, after you die where do you go? or something like that.
I don’t get how that logic works. No afterlife = no point in living? I’m not following you.
Actually because that’s the case it makes living THE point.
I mean if you’re going to disappear better get all you can out of life amirite
So who’s duplicate account are you, out of all the people that just got banned recently?
It’s almost statistically certain that other life exists in the universe, but, as someone else pointed out, I don’t think it’d ever be possible for us to come into contact with them.
You responded to me about the scientific structure of the universe when I was talking about a deity creating an mindfuckingly large universe for an astronomical newborn of a rather uninteresting species on a rather uninteresting astronomical adolescent rock around a one-of-a-trillion stars…and you bring up nuclear fusion and how tribal people in Africa don’t know what it is…and I’M the one that misunderstands the subject (which was, by the way, deities)?!
Slaughter is usually detrimental to the genetic diversity of the species and is generally considered a dickhead thing to do. 
Jeannotvb, you seem to be the one getting awfully confused.
No, he said:
That’s not what I said at all, I said 90% of humanity doesn’t know about the structure of the universe that I had previously explained mostly due to lack of education in large areas of the world.
That’s the reason I got confused, now let’s just drop it because this is going nowhere.
It’s going to an explanation of one of the aspects of atheism, as is everything in this topic. If you want it to go somewhere else, I suggest you stop trying to get the last word, and ask a different question.