Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.

Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.

Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This “then why do we have a word for that” is such a a strange argument

    We also have a word for elves, doesn’t mean they exist

    It’s the same logic I see people applying to Korean, with arguments like “they have no word for depression, therefore they’re happier”, completely ignoring the fact that they have a bridge called “suicide bridge” (guess why)

    • aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      If you think the word supernatural is so unneeded, you can petition for it to be taken out of dictionaries and Wikipedia.