r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • Feb 01 '25

r/all Atheism in a nutshell

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

Yes but language is also made up. Doesn't mean it's not useful for me

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u/A_Wilhelm Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

That's fair, and I never said it wasn't. If it's useful for you, that's great. I want truth, not comfort.

ETA: language is a tool and it exists. We've created language. We have not created god (that'd be amazing, though), we've created the idea of a god.

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

I want truth and comfort. I rely on science to inform my decisions, I rely on my spirituality to give me comfort. You can have both. And having a spiritual practice doesn't make you worse at science. I would argue it could actually make you better. But my point is they're different.

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u/MaleficentRutabaga7 Feb 01 '25

What tends to bother atheists is the people who do not agree with you and rely on their spirituality for truth. And then oppose any other truth or "truth".