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This is called "argument from ignorance." Just because you don't know something doesn't mean you can just shrug your shoulders and make something up and have it be true.

Let's say I show you a safe and ask you what's inside. You don't know enough yet to crack it. Are you really going to say that your "truth" is the right one when it's no different from a guess, even if you feel really, really strongly about it? You have no idea what's in the safe, and neither does anyone else. But at least some people are trying to figure out how to get inside the safe to get the real answer

You can do both. Why must it be one or the other?

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I don't really know where you got this from haha

the point of the picture displaying a list of all gods athiests don't believe in is to show that to athiests, yahweh is just another meager god they don't believe,

yet the typical athiest puts innumerable effort in derailing the christian god, that they probably wouldnt put forth if one were talking about say Zeus haha.

Getting hypocritical vibes from it is all

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Because you don't seem to understand why Yahweh is given more focus. It's not that atheists are so focused on "one god." It's *all* gods. The arguments that apply to Yahweh apply to all of them. It's just that most religious people you'll encounter on the internet believe in Yahweh, so that tends to be near the forefront of the discussion (if it's to be brought up at all).

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Because the target audience is mostly Christian. I doubt there are many people on the planet that still believe in Zeus, so why target them? Sure those who still believe in Zeus are just as incorrect as Christians, but the bigger "problem" (for lack of better wording) is Christianity because it has a far bigger audience.

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I'd much rather use the tangible and tested evidence we have now to explain our existence, than to use blind faith to explain it.

I ask you, as a theist, of all the information and science known throughout the entire universe, why do you still insist on attributing that to a higher power and not the human race?

Now you're just trying to guilt us. Love and caring isn't something created by religion. In fact, there are quite a few issues in that department when it comes to religion. Read through Exodus and Leviticus. Homosexuals are to be killed, slavery is morally and socially okay, the issue of rape isn't even hinted at but oh man, if you say the name of God with a bad attitude, you have Definitely Sinned.

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Once again, if it is retaliating, this is true haha

But I go back to where i say countless times i've seen some ass hole go onto some christian video on youtube try and bash the fuck out of yahweh

Go on forum boards/videos/free response anything concerning greek mythology and gods and theres none of it

shit like this

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Because Greek mythology is considered mythology, and not truth..

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Good point, that was only one instance though haha, I mean other gods as a whole

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Because a huge chunk of the population believes in Christianity. How would criticizing some other religion (that they don't believe in anyway) possibly help?

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All other outdated gods are considered mythology too. Germanic mythology is mythology, Egyptian mythology is mythology etc. etc.

Yahweh is targeted because that's what most people believe in nowadays (or Allah, take your pick).

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It would help no more than criticizing the christian god haha

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If it makes you feel better, Allah doesn't exist either.

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That's only true for stubborn people (granted, of which there are a lot), but given long enough and they might realize the absurdities as well.

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I believe in myself

problem solved

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In other words, incredibly stubborn people who are unwilling to acknowledge counterpoints? lol

Plenty of people don't care to debate generalities. They only care about Christianity/Yahweh/etc. One common argument is "Well, Jesus was a real guy!" as if this makes Christianity "more likely" than some other religion.

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just gonna throw this out there, my man ScylaX has some good ideas

nothin much else to add except dawkins is a piece of shit lmfao

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Sup with the Dawkins hate anyway lol
I mean, he comes off as friendly and considerate to me

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I think dawkins is a dick because of all of the dumbshits he's encountered in his life.

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Even if he's standing face to face with a dumbshit, he's always considerate afaik, trying to explain why a certain reasoning is illogical/unreasonable etc. I can see why that's considered dickish because nobody likes their reasoning questioned but yeah, he's always civil about it.

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i dunno i've seen that dude ripping on the middle-east for their cultural shit a lot and it comes off as kinda shitty considering i doubt the dude's ever actually experienced it or know where they're coming from

that and his writing style is just atrocious lol