I was just angry about this the other day while I was driving home and listening to the Data over Dogma podcast (theist but very open minded Bible scholar chats with an atheist about the history of the bible) I am getting kinda annoyed at this lifestyle.
Maybe I just don’t want to believe in sky-daddy. Is that so much to ask? Maybe I don’t want to have a pile of books on Bible text analysis and spend my free time studying that fuck awful book anymore. Maybe I don’t want to try to be an expert on philosophy, logic, evolutionary biology, Big Bang cosmology, what random really means in QM theory, Pali Canon, the Vedas, the Korean, and human+animal psychology.
I feel like every time I am on some site or talking to someone about this subject like I have to dwarf their knowledge on every single avenue of attack when the burden of proof shouldn’t be on me. It is their fucking claim, fucking defend it!
Oh, I heard about that podcast-- I think a host was a guest on Scathing Athiest.
What I learned from dating a preachers daughter a long time ago is that at least all that prep in evolution, psychology, etc, made me a much better, more knowledge person (which helped a lot in going to college, grad school, etc). I appreciate that aspect, even if it sucked at the time and involved a lot of heated debate and temporary blocked AIM accounts.
A good push for a bad reason, especially since they inevitably could not see reason. Some people aren’t worth the effort, but I would hate to have to put on that fight for family members or other loved ones.
I was just angry about this the other day while I was driving home and listening to the Data over Dogma podcast (theist but very open minded Bible scholar chats with an atheist about the history of the bible) I am getting kinda annoyed at this lifestyle.
Maybe I just don’t want to believe in sky-daddy. Is that so much to ask? Maybe I don’t want to have a pile of books on Bible text analysis and spend my free time studying that fuck awful book anymore. Maybe I don’t want to try to be an expert on philosophy, logic, evolutionary biology, Big Bang cosmology, what random really means in QM theory, Pali Canon, the Vedas, the Korean, and human+animal psychology.
I feel like every time I am on some site or talking to someone about this subject like I have to dwarf their knowledge on every single avenue of attack when the burden of proof shouldn’t be on me. It is their fucking claim, fucking defend it!
Oh, I heard about that podcast-- I think a host was a guest on Scathing Athiest.
What I learned from dating a preachers daughter a long time ago is that at least all that prep in evolution, psychology, etc, made me a much better, more knowledge person (which helped a lot in going to college, grad school, etc). I appreciate that aspect, even if it sucked at the time and involved a lot of heated debate and temporary blocked AIM accounts.
A good push for a bad reason, especially since they inevitably could not see reason. Some people aren’t worth the effort, but I would hate to have to put on that fight for family members or other loved ones.