50 Facts That Might Mess With Your Knowledge Of The World

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Please see Russel's Teapot. The burden of proof is on the person making an unfalsifiable claim, not on the person making a statement. If Lakota were claiming that NO religions have ANY positive effects, I'd agree with you. But she isn't claiming that. She's saying that organized religions produce a net negative for human society. That's disprovable, if you wanted to try. You'd just have to show that the sense of fulfillment and peace attained by the individuals part of the religion, are more important than the harm imposed by the religion, both on the individual members through oppression of human nature, and on those people adjacent to those members by the oppression of non-believers. Should be pretty easy to do, right.

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Errrr… no. “Organized religions produce a net negative for human society” is the statement that needs to be proved here, or at least backed up with some hard data. No one is obliged to disprove that, just as no one is obliged to disprove other blanket generalizations of the same kind, such as “musicians are untrustworthy”, “books are superior to movies”, “eating meat is bad for the soul”, and so on. Maybe these are all true, maybe partially so, maybe not at all - the point is that these are subjective opinions not based on any supporting data.

Okay, here's a fact. An estimated 177 million people were k****d by crusaders in. the middle ages. The population of native amerindians dropped from an estimated 100 million to 6 million in the first 100 years of European colonization and the expansion of the Catholic church. Chattel slavery was imposed on Africans for 500 years in the name of religion. The Jim Crowe laws of the American South and lynchings were justified by religious leaders. The current f*****t movement in the United States is being led by CHRISTIAN nationalists.

Falsifying and distorting facts doesn’t really help promote your atheist agenda, Bees. A simple Google search will show that the number of people k****d DURING the Crusades (not just BY the Crusaders) was about 3 million at most, not the ridiculous 177 million as you claim. The main cause of death of Native Americans, by far, were diseases brought by European conquerors, not their religion. Slavery in Africa has existed since times immemorial, way before the Transatlantic s***e trade, and also before the Muslim s***e trade. Slavery has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with human greed. Do you really want me to stoop to your level of “arguing” and start throwing at you numbers of victims of the atheist regimes of the 20th century (Soviet Union, Cambodia, China, North Korea) in attempt to prove to you that atheism is evil?

Er, anti-abortion, anti-gay propaganda, promising hell and damnation for anyone who doesn't agree with them. The so-called missionaries who take perfectly happy native peoples and trample their own beliefs and society. Will that do just for starters? Not data per se but fact. Pretty negative I'd say.

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Also, why are you suggesting to me to please see the thesis of a well-known atheist philosopher? “How do we know that religions are untrue? Because Russell says so! But… how do we know that he is right? Duh, because he was an atheist, and atheism is right!” Zero difference with the fundamentalist Christian suggestion to read the Bible to confirm that there is God, because the Bible must be true, because Christianity says so.

Russel didn't suggest you take his word over the Bible because he said so. That's the Bible's assertion. Believe in this book, because this book. Russell simply said if somebody were to propose an idea that is unfalsifiable, such as there is a teapot orbiting the sun, but it is so far away that it cannot be seen by a telescope, then that person has the burden of proof. I needn't scour the skies, and invent new technologies to disprove something absurd. If you say a book written by a bunch of shepherds in 3rd century claiming that a guy who died in the 1st century is a god and the creator of the universe, that's quite the stretch. And it is an unfalsifiable claim, because unless I build a time-machine and meet the man myself or die and come back to life, I cannot disprove your assertion. BUT that doesn't make it false, and he didn't claim it did. Only that you are the one with the burden of proof.

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Every time I see atheist edgelords spewing stuff like "ALL religion is the biggest evil on the planet!!!" I always imagine some Buddhist monk peacefully meditating in his shrine being a total menace to the society 😆

Meanwhile Buddhist monks in Myanmar are advocating the genocide of muslim minority groups. Check out the 969 Movement, and the Rohingya Genocide. I think maybe Jain and Baha'i religions might be the ones that haven't been guilty of mass crimes against humanity. However, that may be just because I don't know enough of their histories.

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It’s not Buddhism that teaches them to commit the genocide, they are just using Buddhism in a pathetic attempt to justify their heinous deeds and appease their rotten conscience. Much like the Crusaders, who did things that Jesus would never approve of. The one religion whose followers act in accordance with the behavior and the teachings of its founder is Islam. Muhammad k****d, conquered, married several women at once, and allowed his followers to do the same. But as a rule, humans are always much worse than what their religions teach them. Don’t blame the religions, blame people.

Ah, of course, the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. No "real Christian" would do the things that Christians have done over the last 2 thousand years and are continuing to do. I agree that the Jesus from the Bible would be appalled at the atrocities committed in his name. Just as Siddhartha Gautama would be appalled at the 969 Movement. But that doesn't change the fact that people are committing m****r in the names of their holy-men. And that the people committing the atrocities firmly believe that they are the righteous ones.

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No “No True Scotsman” fallacy in what I said. I said that the atrocities committed by followers of those religions contradicted the teachings of their founders, which you just agreed with. Ergo, it’s not the religion that made them commit those atrocities, just as it’s not Scottish blood that made that Scottish man from the fallacy example commit those atrocities. So I don’t quite see what you’re trying to argue here.

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Not just Buddhist. Many Christian monks did a lot of good. There are good priests, good pastors, good rabbis, good gurus, good Sufi masters, etc. But hardcore atheists ignore facts to suit their ideological agenda, in exactly the same way as fundamentalist Christians ignore the fact that there are also plenty of good atheists.

One of the things they do on the ISS is experiments in things like hydroponics. The space people absolutely have the qualifications for it!

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