? …just because there’s somethign far worse, doesn’t lessen the initial babble.
It does mean that there are people much less polite than you who use much more harsh words.
So maybe it was the very recent comment, in this very thread, that ‘there are so many varieties of religious faith’, that inspired this novel objection. Which does indeed seem like the most unlikely babble.
Eeeeh?! …yearh …eh …right?
That’s predictable babble, though.
It shouldn’t bother you. Look at the world around its full of circles. It makes sense that some people believe in God and some don’t. God created that choice.
Just a few thoughts…
Many too many of the religious feel the need to defend their idol of a God, and with good reason - for their ‘faith’ ultimately rests on a figment of their own imagination and making, and deep down they fear they know this. It’s shaky and uncertain, this faith, and by no means can it stand on its own - this is why in extreme cases it seeks to impose itself on others, in hopes might instill a firm belief in itself it simply doesn’t have on its own.
I personally both adore and despise religions. I adore their core teachings - many of which they share very much in common - but another part of me despises the inherently divisive nature of religion. As soon as I identify myself as a Christian, it becomes a pseudo-identity I create for myself in order to distinguish myself from non-Christians - Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. Suddenly I am one thing, and they are another, and this artificial distinction between two human beings fundamentally becomes one of Us vs. Them - and already I have gone astray, for all founders of religions taught the indivisible One (including Jesus Christ), a mankind unified in love.
Atheists and agnostics can criticize and denounce religion for many reasons - some legitimate and born of understanding, and others are simply born of ignorance. But unlike what is often the case with religious folk, I can’t say I’ve met too many who feel a need to prove whether or not God exists - at least not in the same way religious folk do. Sure, a cynical atheist may give all kinds of dark and painfully compelling evidence not to believe in goodness, divinity, God or gods; and sure, he may be a little vain and spiritually empty himself, and thus feel the need to deride and mock religion, so to inflate his empty little ego (at least momentarily) and lift himself on high - but I don’t think he’d feel a need to disprove God in the same way a religious person does the opposite.
Atheists have a shaky faith of their own, to be sure; they’re just as anxious and uncertain with regard to the perennial questions as the religious person. They may often have a kind of inflated but empty pride in not ‘needing’ a God to lean on, or may adamantly defend their faith in the scientific method being the sole legitimate means to the discovery of truth - perhaps the latter is the closest the atheist comes to the religious with regard to defending its own faith. He may just deny the existence of any meaningful truth altogether (some flavor of an atheistic nihilism).
But if you probe an atheist with the right questions, supposing first that he’s reasonable, he will eventually concede he does not know anything with certainty. The same cannot be said for the fanatically religious - their faith is far too dear to their sense of identity and spiritual/psychological well being.