Gevaudan wrote:Terastas, although I agree with your statements on the difference between atheism and agnosticism (atheism deals with belief, and agnosticism deals with knowledge), could you clarify what you mean by this:
Terastas wrote:Atheism, on the other hand, is a system of belief that not only denies the existence of a higher power, but also the existence of karma, life after death, or any sort of moral code apart from "might makes right" or "majority rule."
Are you saying that atheists by default believe in majority rule and "might makes right," or I am mistaken?
If anything, yes. By Morkulv's own admission, atheism has no rules, IE: no karma, no concept of sin, no eternal reward or damnation, nothing to distinguish between right and wrong. I'm not saying that atheists can't have any other political or philosophical ideologies -- only that Atheism by default doesn't come with any.
Morkulv wrote:No, I'm ignoring you, in the same way that you ignore my arguments. I don't care about your opinion, because the only thing that counts for you is the number of people who agree with you (which is very clear from your posts). You are welcome to start calling me names again like you always do when you run out of things to say. Also, I was not replying to you so please don't reply to me.
Byebye.
No, you're ignoring me because there's nothing else you can do. Your argument that atheism is some kind of holy higher ground over all other religions has just been torn a new one sevenfold so now the only thing you can do to keep it alive is take petty potshots at the people in this discussion while you pretend to be ignoring them.
I didn't object to you insulting agnosticism -- I objected to you using "agnosticism" as a synonym for "atheism," and even then I only took offense to it
after I had made the clarification and you continued to treat them as synonyms anyway.
You accuse me of only caring about how many people agree with me -- big load of bull. You know my track record -- have I
ever cared about how many people agree with me? I've even butted heads over politics with people that had the power to ban me. I only back down when someone can prove me wrong -- not when I'm threatened or an announcement is made that I'm being ignored.
I don't even think you know what it is that you're trying to defend anymore. This is the "ban on minarets" thread all over again. That one started with you bashing Muslims but ended with you trumpeting European supremacy, and this one began with you complaining that you get no respect but is now ending with you propping your beliefs up above all the others and taking potshots at everyone else down below.
You complained that nobody respects you as an atheist, but why should they when you clearly have no respect for anyone else?
What exactly is it that you are trying to accomplish by remaining in this threads Morkulv? Do you have a point to be made, or do you not care what the hell comes out of your mouth just as long as you have the last word? Right now, the evidence is all pointing to the latter.