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Gonna lose my “atheist street cred” but I’ve really got no problem with someone believing in a non-personal, absent and long gone creator that doesn’t interfere in human affairs in other words, the deist position. I know many nominal theists that are good for goodness sake and really have no fear of hell.
This assertion of Voltaire’s is continually proven correct. It’s been said that the greatest cause for people to give up the god delusion is a reading of the bible. Even though we have a propensity for believing irrational things we are also moved by rational argument and can only suspend common sense for so long.
I think Voltaire’s point is well understood by the priestly pedophiles – why else did they try so hard to prevent the bible from getting into the hands of their flock? Once people could read it for themselves instead of being spoon fed by priests it didn’t take long for a small but always growing number to realize that it was (is) an enormous crock of crap.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:42
Voltaire was truly “enlightened”
April 30th, 2009 at 14:52
Enlightened, yes, as well as a believer in God (deist?).
April 30th, 2009 at 15:31
I can forgive people from being deists pre-Darwin. Those who came afterwards who have no such excuse.
April 30th, 2009 at 19:14
Gonna lose my “atheist street cred” but I’ve really got no problem with someone believing in a non-personal, absent and long gone creator that doesn’t interfere in human affairs in other words, the deist position. I know many nominal theists that are good for goodness sake and really have no fear of hell.
This assertion of Voltaire’s is continually proven correct. It’s been said that the greatest cause for people to give up the god delusion is a reading of the bible. Even though we have a propensity for believing irrational things we are also moved by rational argument and can only suspend common sense for so long.
I think Voltaire’s point is well understood by the priestly pedophiles – why else did they try so hard to prevent the bible from getting into the hands of their flock? Once people could read it for themselves instead of being spoon fed by priests it didn’t take long for a small but always growing number to realize that it was (is) an enormous crock of crap.