Is it worth reading if you're an atheist?

Is it worth reading if you're an atheist?

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>is it worth reading the text of a religion which was core to western civilisation for about 2000 years

Gee I dunno, you tell me?

No, only read what you agree with. Why spend time trying to understand things that don't align with your worldview?

I'd recommend reading some amount of Christian Apologetics first if you have an absolutely minimal understanding of Christianity.

CS Lewis's Mere Christianity gives a decent insight into Christian philosophy and belief and will give you a better grounding when going into the Bible.

"no"

Can't you just take it as fiction?

Atheism is for the emotionally retarded. You can't prove God doesn't exist. Read the book, it's a good philosophy and the greatest story ever told. Your piddly skepticism is holding you back, brainlet.

Nah it's better to go in blind with a good translation so that you can see how idiotic christian theology is and come to the obvious conclusion that 'jesus' was not the Messiah.

>You can't prove God doesn't exist.
- The world is not 6000 years old, thanks to some very old Zircon rock, we know it's at least 4.543 billion years old.

- We now know there was no Adam and Eve,
Evolution has been proven on a genetic level.

- The Big Bang happened, its afterglow can be seen today.

- Out of body experiences and near death experiences occur in all cultures regardless of one's faith.

- They can be induced in a lab using the God Helmet (google it, it's pretty cool). It's now understood as a product of human biology.

Your move, brainlet.

How are you an atheist if you didnt read the bible along with every other religions holy book?

>He thinks Christians doesn't believe in the Big Bang.

They don't.

reminder that humans are incapable of discovering or even understanding the ultimate "truth" and agnosticism IS the only correct path

No. Get off this board if you're an atheist.

Im an atheist and i think there is enough contradiction in the bigbang theory to put it back on the shelf of theorys.

Sorry, I don't believe in fairy tales.

>when amerilards try to understand religion
lmao what an embarrassment

The Big Bang theory and the expansion of the universe concept were discovered by a Catholic priest, religion and science are not mutually exclusive.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître

>Doesn't contradict any of the points and spouts 'MUH MURICA' instead
Then again, what should I expect from a third world subhuman.

No, you do. We don't.

Atheists are the worst

Agnosticism is for radical centrist faggots.

Yes they are, c*tholics are just heretics and incredibly prone to STEMspergery.

Alright. Prove that god exists, then. Go on.

excellent argument, brainlet

Of course you can, no one's holding a gun to your head telling you to believe it wholesale.

>People who don't believe in lies are he worst

Bible and life in general.

I wasn't trying to argue, I was just describing.

Stop baiting.

>he posted the fedora pepe
d-dumb frogposter k-kek

>proof
Doesn't exist, sorry brainlet

If anything, being an atheist makes it MORE worth reading

So you actually know what you're debating, unlike 99% of self-proclaimed atheists

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Should I pick up an old version or a new one?

Bible is fiction.
Life is a coincidence.

Most people seem to like KJV. Just don't read it with the mindset to disapprove or mock Christianity.

>Not believing somehing with no proof makes you a brainlet

CENTURIES OF THEOLOGY BTFO

THOMAS AQUINAS BTFO

>Just don't read it with the mindset to disapprove or mock Christianity.
Now I'm going to read it with that mindset to piss you off.

(You)

>Life is a coincidence.
This sounds retarded.

>No argument

Doesn't really make you any different from others, eh?

It's the truth, life came to be after a certain string of events.

And that certain string of events are coincidence?

>expecting me to engage in a a dialogue with someone from a country where the average iq is 89
it's like this is your first time baiting

I'm dutch you retard.

Judaism is just as "retarded" as Christianity

In the seemingly endless universe its bound to happen based on statistics.

why do Americans poo themselves in supermarkets?

my mishtake the average dutch iq is sheventy shix

Where the do you come from, then?
Also, fuck you.

Could be true, but before that?

Troll county

culturallyandintellectuallymoresophisticatedthanyouistan

Before what

I guess atheism is for the mentally retarded as well. You didn't prove God doesn't exist. And I don't mean Jeeeeezus, I mean the first principle. The prime mover. The unknowable that made your shitty dull life possible.

You should definitely only read things you agree with and never challenge your world view.
Even on a more practical level, you should read the other side so if some draws you into an argument you're not talking from a standpoint of ignorance.
I'm an agnostic atheist, I've read the bible, torah, Qu'ran, Mahabharata, Vedas and some buddhist scriptures. Even if you don't believe in god, there's still value in them, even as talking points.

God do Americans really try to teach their kids god and morality and shit? Don't they know god doesn't exist and it's scientifically proven and people should just do whatever they want?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from god.

So you are telling me that my toaster is indistinguishable from God? Or does 'sufficiently advanced' mean nothing after all?

ignore him he's just roleplaying as an edgy speed addict robot worshiping cuck

You are an example of why I really hate Dutch people. You pretend to know better but you're really just as unironically vapid as the people around you. Go tag a brutalist apartment building, Daan.

If its sufficiently advanced for you to not understand how it works,then obviously,yes.
Back to troll county,kid.

His toaster can give his life meaning and support him on hard times? I guess eating works n some people but I wouldn't put on the same level as God.

t. actual 15 year old from reddit

>I have no argument so I'll call you reddit instead

>my shitty worldview warrants a refutation
>pls spoonfeed me things I will learn when I graduate highschool
this is what you sound like right now

You are mixing faith with god.Its not god that gives meaning and support at hard times,but faith.
You can have faith in yourself just as much as in a toaster,whatever suits you.
You know what they say.If religious people would know reason,they wouldnt be religious.

> ad hominem is a legitimate way to counter a statement

>I learned about fallacies yesterday on wikipedia

I have a shitty worldview? You are a grown man that believes in a fairy tale. A fairy tale that has been disproven over and over again, yet you still believe it because a website you don't like doesn't. Do you know how fucking retarded that is?

shhhh it's ok sweetie don't cry it's all gonna be ok. the bad man is gonna go ow he probably doesn't even believe in le science!

>I learned about fallacies today when I had to look it up

>I learned about getting BTFO today when that one user roasted my pseud ass in the christfags vs fedorafags meme thread

>He doesn't realise the theory was put forward by a Belgian cosmologist/priest who worked for the Vatican.
>He doesn't realise that the Vatican approved the theory

really gets the noggin joggin ;^)

>I don't know what I claim not to believe in, but I am extremely vocal about it and even made it the core of my identity

is there anything more childish and pathetic than atheists?

>he's still at it, the absolute madman

You have confirmed yourself mentally challenged, I'm done arguing with you.

Probably, but it might overlap a great deal.
>autists (the worst ones)
>furries
>new pronoun folk
Etc.

Yeah, theists.

>after losing the argument the fifteen year old atheist declared himself the winner, and proceeded to announce to everyone that he was closing the thread to go jerk off to furry porn and watch richard dawkins videos
lmao see you in the next thread you reddit tourist faggot. I hope the isis rapes your dutch ass

>the people who built civilizations were and are totally pathetic, unlike my group that isn't a group that has the backbone to promote equality and ignore the need for biological offspring

Don't waste any more time on him dude, he's a lost cause.

>you don't get it mom
>i built western society

Wait, there was an argument? All you posted was memes and delusion.

yeah there was an argument and you got BTFO but don't worry kid you should probably get used to things going right over your head.

I think you forgot that every scientist who matters is an atheist, and an atheist made the device you're using right now.

I am pretty much an atheist. I just want to preserve the good in the world. I have broken my world with analysis. I live in absolute sin, too, and won't be expecting children.
Hence we are not a group, but we are.
Or should I say that there is a conflict, where my faith shows itself in my words and outward actions but those directed at myself promote atheism.

>every scientist who matters
Every bronze age king who mattered was a pagan or an occultist. Let them be what they are.
They are not building civilization.

>BTFO
>>>/reddit/

They didn't know any better.

I'm a proud atheist who is new to this website but I just have to ay that all the bible thumpers and religious nuts in this thread remind me of the kind of people who back in prison we called "punks"

one time a punk came up to me asking me if i heard the good news and all that, I socked him right in the cake hole, then I held him down and made him suck all my friends dicks. so just think about that next time you post you religious punks

Go home, you're drunk.

oh you want some more do ya? one verbal thrashing wasn't enough for you fedoralord?

I'll tell you what why don't you put your money where you mouth is. I am willing to drive 5 hours from my hometown in western Maine. if you can meet me at a time and place of your choosing I will personally bet you until you start to believe in God and his everlasting mercy. alternatively you can pay for a roundtrip flight and I will come to get you anywhere in the world.

balls in your court champ

Sorry, I have no time to talk about fairy tales.

>we who know better are abolishing age old institutions like marriage for ideological reasons so that a few individuals can in ideological theory be happier
The question isn't about knowledge. It never was. Hume made points, good points, against the world view of before. Kant returned Europe to Logos. So it goes.

Marriage is shit, worst thing to happen to humanity.