(urth) Religious writers and audiences

[brunians at brunians.org]

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> If randomness leads to order, then randomness is what you call what most
> people call God.
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> There are always only two and only two choices: the one you choose and all
> the other ones.
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> If you look at the World analytically, it is complicated.
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> If you look at the World synthetically, it is reasonably straightforward.
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>> There are a number of weak assumptions there. First, that randomness
>> does
>> not itself lead to order; second, that there are always only two
>> choices;
>> third, that nature and "naturalness" are simple, when they are
>> demonstrably not.
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>> Fourth, that atheism is not in fact found everywhere in nature. The
>> thrushes in the woods behind my house did not take a day of rest
>> yesterday
>> (unless of course their calls are to be considered prayers and not
>> communications regarding territory and mating; but no one has proposed
>> or
>> proven that).
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>> Finally, no one has mentioned delusions; perhaps they appear as part of
>> your worldview, but not mine.
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>> I think that the basic difference between atheists and most other people
>> is that atheists think that things happen all random like.
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>> The default point of view seems to be that the World is planned and
>> directed in some way.
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>> It's not always God who plans and directs it.
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>> It's not always planned and directed in some kind of benign way.
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>> It's not always planned and directed by the same agents.
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>> There's two possible points of view: that the World is random, like, and
>> things happen for no particular reason, or that things are in some way
>> planned and directed.
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>> I would like an atheist to explain to me why atheism is not found in
>> nature.
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>> Where is the ancient or traditional society that did not believe in
>> something, whether the ghosts of their grandparents, or the spirits of
>> the
>> trees, or the fairies, or the planets or the mountains or the ocean or
>> angels or gods or God or the Devil or something else.
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>> Is everyone except you and your buddies deluded?
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>> Everybody else?
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>> Only you know the truth?
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>> This sounds really a lot like a religion, and not a gentle one.
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