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Attitude to Religion and its believers. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What is your general attitude towards those who believe in religion whether they are jewish, Muslim, Christian etc etc.

Do you get on well with any religious friends and neighbours?

Have you ever thought of believing in a religion at some point?

If you do not like the faiths, why?

If you DO, also why? Does this come from your family? Maybe something went bad during your life?

I get that Lemmy might have the same stereotype in Reddit that there are loads of atheists, but there's a good reason why despite criticism of religion, it is still here.

P.S. I am not religious or anti religious in any fashion, I am agnostic.

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[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The issue is you guys do handwaving about how the basic building blocks started and then go on to look at fossil progression. You guys need to stop and look at how it seems to be impossible for DNA to develop and how evolution doesnt have a good explaination for it.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No one is handwaving away problems we are yet to solve, except the people just claiming "must have been gods"

There has always been and probably always will be new problems to solve. Scientists have been working on trying to understand and resolve those problems, and we know so much more today than we did 100 years ago. We take evolution theory as a fact, because it's the theory that has been proven billions of times again and again, and we keep finding more proof for it. Just because we might not know everything yet, is not an argument against the only working theory we have.

Your Christ illusion has been proven zero times

[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can say its not handwaving, but as evolution currently stands it is an impossible theory. Until there is an actual explanation you can say its been "proven billions of times".

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Until there is an actual explanation you can say its been "proven billions of times"

All the evidence we have supports evolution theory

[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago

Except for the very start of it, and unless you can answer that question it voids all of evolution.