How can atheists do more to help Christians out with their logic deficiency disorder (LDD)?

Answer 1

Start teaching kids about reason and logic BEFORE teaching them about God and Jesus and silly bible stories passed off as truth. Kids are blank slates and will believe whatever their teachers and parents tell them. They're gullible.

After they buy into the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, and it's easy to move onto heaven and God. Once they're hooked on Jesus and the make-believe world of religion we've got an uphill battle!

No greater mind than Thomas Edison said the same thing: "the great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them." Adolph Hitler knew this too: "Give me child until the age of six and I will give you a Nazi for life."

"There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

The bottom line is all children are born atheist before we let society brainwash their innocent little brains into believing these destructive fairy tales.

"Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error."
— Robert Owen

Clarence Darrow expressed the same frustration: "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."
— Isaac Asimov

"I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion.... If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?"
— Ruth Hurmence Green

Answer 2

Not being either a Atheist or a Christian, I'm not really sure.

It seems that the more frightening the world becomes, the more the ignorant cling in desperation to their ignorance.

Answer 3

genuine delusional people have not any doubts or 2d techniques approximately their delusions. it is amazingly unsightly to be certain those style of individuals. i won't be able to say for particular no count if ur buddy is delusional. if it relatively is a metaphor or analogy for religious people, then its nevertheless actual. not anybody that believes in god relatively believes in god. Its in simple terms kind of a wish they carry directly to to get by life. faith is basically wish. edit: possibly it relatively is a fantasy that individuals would desire to get by life, understanding they are doomed. the understanding of our very own mortality is deeply unsightly. edit: genuine delusional people won't be able to be reasoned with, they can't function like the typical individual. there techniques chemistry is diverse. its an exceedingly hopeless kind of ailment that relatively transformations your techniques. a schizophrenic techniques is diverse than a popular techniques. the version between the typical religious individual and a delusional individual is, that the delusional individual is easily particular of his/her ideals, to the middle, they have a deformity of their techniques shape. the religious individual has decision, the deluded individual does not .

Answer 4

Ahhhh the modesty of the atheist. Did you know Steve Martin ( comedian) received his degree in philosophy and logic and used it as the basis for much of his early comedy? You must someday come to the realization that logic alone will not answer all your questions and that if you are truly open minded you would have to have your mind open to the concept of something beyond yourself. Oh I get it Kelly and Desiree you guys are practicing that new logical prmise where if you are called on your derogatory comment it really wasn't an attack it was just comedy. Do yourselves a favor either learn aboout your subject and know what you are talking about or take lessons in comedy.

Answer 5

i think you should allow people to believe what they want to believe as long as they dont cause harm to you and don't push their religion on you

just cause you dont believe in something doesn't mean it's true or false... and i dont believe you should insult somebody's intelligence because they think differently from you... look at Galileo, he proved to everybody, who believed that everything revolved around the earth, that everything actually revolved around the sun

no proof that there is or isn't a God, I understand that you think that some almighty being that created everything is stupid but dont insult people that have different beliefs than you

AND TO RESPOND TO CASSIE T:
your logic is bull, just cause you're supposedly "MORE" intelligent doesn't mean you dont have beliefs in ANY type of religion, there are some of the most intelligent wealthy people in the whole world are religious in some way, dont state something WITHOUT checking your sources

You know PASCAL?? One of the most intelligent mathematicians of history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

The Wager is described by Pascal in the Pensées this way:[2]

Let us consider the paraphrased translation of Pascal. "God either exists or He doesn't. Based on the testimony, both general revelation (nature) and special revelation (Scriptures/Bible), it is safe to assume that God does in fact exist. It is abundantly fair to conceive, that there is at least 50% chance that the Christian Creator God does in fact exist. Therefore, since we stand to gain eternity, and thus infinity, the wise and safe choice is to live as though God does exist. If we are right, we gain everything, and lose nothing. If we are wrong, we lose nothing and gain nothing. Therefore, based on simple mathematics, only the fool would choose to live a Godless life. Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. You have nothing to lose. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is."

Answer 6

Ahh such humour will be lost on those who take it too seriously.. Maybe those same people have HDD.. (humour deficiency disorder). Maybe we should start LDDA (the A stands for anonymous)...lol

Answer 7

It seems to me that many atheists on this board believe that religion isn't "scientific" and therefore must be wrong. I believe, with all due respect, that many of these individuals don't actually know enough about science to make that judgment. If you study how science works carefully, you can find that science itself is subject to much of human subjectivity, mistaken perception, and so forth. In short, science isn't that "scientific" either. We share a common goal of trying to discover truth, whether through scientific discovery or by faith. Many scientists are also people of faith and don't see a conflict there (myself included).

No matter what method we try to use to discover truth, that knowledge will arrive to our minds through some sort of perception. If I give someone an MRI, for example, a human still has to read the results and interpret those results (using his/her perception) before making a conclusion about the results of the MRI. Therefore the conclusion is a combination of the actual results and the person's perceptions about them. Since it is not possible through normal means to gain knowledge any way but through our senses, there is always the possibility that our perception has tainted the truth. In addition, science proceeds when people form hypotheses about phenomena and then test those hypotheses. There is always a possibility that a well-supported hypothesis can be replaced by a hypothesis that explains things that much better. For a long time, for example, the current scientific hypothesis was that the universe revolved around the earth. Now, the current hypothesis is that the earth revolves around the sun. But a true scientist should always be willing to accept that there could be an even better hypothesis that might explain the situation all the better. It would be a poor scientist indeed who continued to hold to an old theory when a better one came along.

In short, it's "illogical" to believe in God, but science doesn't escape subjectivity either. For lack of a more positive way to say it: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. It's my sincere hope that people will find the happiness I have found through faith in God and living His commandments.

Answer 8

Convert!

Answer 9

Education, education, education!

Make higher education less expensive, and people abandon religion in droves.

The more educated a person is, the less religious they are.

Once you get to grad school level, religious people are a minority, even in the US.

Answer 10

Some people are beyond help and just have to be made as comfortable as possible until they die..