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"People always demand respect for their faith. You've noticed this happening...

Why should I respect someone who makes enormous claims on no evidence, and when confronted with that fact says, 'Well, I don't need any evidence, I've got faith."? I think that extraordinary claims, such as that they know, not just that there is a God, but that they know his mind, they know his instructions, that they've had revealed truth from Him: a claim like that requires extraordinary evidence. Instead of which they say, 'No, how about no evidence at all' Why am I supposed to respect that?

I don't respect it. I suspect it."

-- Christopher Hitchens

“Faith” is not entitled to respect.

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The Fabricated Sources of the Quran

It is a fundamental Muslim belief that the Qur’an is the very Word of Allah and that it, therefore, does not contain human sources. [...] Yet, in spite of this, a persistent charge of those who heard the Qur’an for the first time was that Muhammad was simply repeating well known material:

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The bible is not the only book of plagiarised myths.

We can trace the origin of many bible stories back to earlier myths (Sumerian, Egyptian, etc) based on their context and language, so we even know which version of a myth it’s ~~stealing from~~ “inspired by”.

Funnily enough, we can also do the same thing with the quran, which is supposed to be the direct word of Allah, not humans. Either Allah punk’d Muhammad by simply regurgitating his favourite Tales from the Public Domain, or Muhammad was a lying conman attempting (poorly) to pass off pre-existing myths and legends as “revealed knowledge.”

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All the great historic religions have, perhaps, some of the truth. All need to be separated from, or combined into, Spirituality.

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What little truth they have is true because it’s true, not because it’s in any of these silly books. Egypt is a real place. Water is wet. Having your head cut off will kill you. It’s nice to be nice to people. These things were true before these books were dreamed up, and they’ll be true long after nobody remembers them. There is no revealed knowledge or truth in any of them, nothing contemporary humans at the time the fables were written - or even centuries or thousands of years prior - didn’t already know.

On the other hand, Sodom and Gomorrah never existed. Humans never spoke the same language. The Earth is not flat and does not rest on pillars. Everything about human consciousness, personality and memory is tied to the physical brain, making a “soul” both impossible and unnecessary, reincarnation or any kind of afterlife a narcissistic fantasy, and ghosts nothing but a baseless myth. Slavery and rape actually aren’t justified or moral, despite instructions to the contrary.

“Spirituality” is a nonsense buzzword trotted out to appear different to “traditional religions”, under the pretence of “open mindedness”, while being just a different flavor of the same magical thinking. The only difference is the strategy of being vague and non-specific to the point of being incomprehensible and having no real relevance. Its worthlessness is demonstrated by the fact none of you “spiritual” people can actually agree what it even means. It distracts from valuing tangible, real humans in preference to valuing and chasing after silly myths you concocted to avoid understanding and accepting your own mortality, and to feel better about not living fully in the one and only life you know you will ever get, because you think you deserve “wishing for more wishes.”

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autisticrevolution-deactivated2 asked:

The existence of the Americas is by itself a huge piece of evidence against the Abrahamic God. There are all kinds of restrictions on what people can eat listed in the Torah and Qur'an, but there was never a single mention of plants or animals unique to the Americas. There were huge crises among the churches because people didn't know if they were allowed to eat corn, avocados, peanuts, potatoes, etc. Good thing God didn't outlaw potatoes, otherwise Ireland would've been fucked.

“God” didn’t know that 95% of the world existed.

Almost as if the knowledge of the eternal, infinite master and creator of the universe was limited to that of contemporary humans. For some reason.

An “almighty” who also thought bats were birds and that there were four-legged fowl.

There is no revealed knowledge in the bible. Not even to wash your hands.

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