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Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.

Personally, I'm open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.

Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There also hasn’t been any proof that supernatural phenomena doesn’t exist.

You can play that game all day with anything. It's not a valid argument.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly. There's no definitive proof that winged monkeys won't fly out of my asshole five minutes from now, but I'm not making plans that assume they will.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, you sold me. I definitely believe in your five minute asshole monkeys!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

I don't.

But I want to.

[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is it not a valid argument?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's already been explained to you by others here.

[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world -5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to hear your opinion. That's the point of this post. It's how we have healthy debates.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've already started my opinion.
All you're doing is telling people no. That's not a debate.

[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world -3 points 4 weeks ago

You haven't really said anything. You just said that my argument isn't valid, refused to elaborate why, and when asked to do so, you said that others have told me why, when I'm getting completely different opinions from multiple people. Also, disagreeing with people is literally what makes a debate a debate. What do you want me to do? Agree with everyone even if I don't? That's not how a genuine conversation works.