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strat1227
Date: Sun, Apr 18 2010 16:07:13

QUOTE (Dark Angel-REX @ Apr 18 2010, 01:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I partially disagree with Sadistic's view that world is better off with Atheists. I think it makes no differences. I believe almost EVERYTHING good can be used for bad and vise-versa. Religion can be used for good, but it can also be used for bad. Just because we eliminate religion in this world, doesn't mean we could get better society. Atheism can also be used for bad. It's also a good excuse to kill people because "no one goes to hell, god does not exist, it's free for all" sorta stuff. Though so is religion. It's a good excuse to kill people because "God said to kill him".

I 100% agree. People who use religion to do horrible things just used religion as an empty tool, and if there was no religion they could have just as easily used something else as the tool. They would have done the things with or without religion. (Ex, look at Hitler, he used politics instead of religion)

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People are also confused about definition of God. There are three types of God: Theistic Gods, Pan-Theistic Gods, and Deistic Gods. Many people believe the first two. SOme people believe in the last one. First two were, unfortunately for some people, already denied by science.

I WHOLLY disagree that science can disprove the existence of a Theistic god.

No matter what science proves, it could just be argued that the Theistic god made it that way.

Further, assuming the Theistic god, if he existed, would be all-powerful, even if science DID somehow find a way to "disprove god", it could just be argued that since he's all-powerful he just made it look like he didn't exist.