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Originally Posted by MasterLJ
A friend of mine once blew my mind when he said "Atheists make a claim of equal weight to that of the religious".
From that day forward I considered myself agnostic.
He's wrong though. Even if said atheist were to claim that there absolutely is no god whatsoever, the claim isn't of equal weight to that of there being one. As Carl Sagan said, an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence. A god is an extraordinary claim, the lack thereof certainly is not. Most atheists, however, don't hold that there absolutely is no god, just that there most likely isn't.
The claim of it being very unlikely or that the probability of there being a god being extremely low, so low that we shouldn't live our lives in the hope of the small chance that there is indeed one, is not equal to the claim that there is one and that we should live our lives according to it. Particularly if said lifestyle is reflective of a book written by men in mud huts a couple of thousand years ago and even more so when a lot of said book is a direct copy of other stories predating it. Putting your trust and life in the hands of such a book is certainly not equal to, I suppose it could only be described as, doing your own thing.
Most atheists contend that there is a very minute possibility of there being a god, whereas most theists contend that there's no chance that there is no god.
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Originally Posted by entrncdrnr
Charlie Sheens rants are pure gold. They remind me of Spinal Tap
I'm absolutely loving it, what an absolute legend. I'm seriously considering signing up to Twitter just so I can follow the madness as it continues on.