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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
It isn't. You're just too angry to hear anything other than your own words. As I get older, I find that I have less and less time for people like that.
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Actually I am not angry at all, when it comes to god and religion I am almost but not quite indifferent.
Religion is irrational; the belief in magical beings, unsubstantiated miracles and the everyday application of ancient texts to 21st Century life should make any thinking person reject it entirely.
Sadly, that's probably not going to happen so there's no requirement for anger. I test my atheism every day against the observable in my world, can you say the same about your faith?
Besides, hyperbole is defined as "an obvious and intentional exaggeration" which is exactly what your phrase couched in absolute terms:
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With religion you have man and god, who drives man to transcend his nature. Without religion you only have man with his cruelity, selfishness and murderous nature; a nature that he celebrates.
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was intended to be.
The attack on me as opposed to a critique of what I wrote is the typical response of a believer on the defensive. I had expected better.