bullshit

who

Well they are very bad at their job.

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fucking gestapo

secret police

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/135725448

**Okay /pol/. It's not that big of a deal for me really. My wife is Christian and I'm obviously atheist. I just want to educate my son and let him make his own decisions in life. With that being said, I could use some talking points. I know why I don't believe, and the things that irritate me, but I want to be able to give my son a 20-30 minute talk on the subject though.
So far this is what I'm going to go with:
1. When you were younger, you believed in things like the tooth fairy, Santa, and the Easter Bunny. When you got older, trusted adults explained to you why these magical creatures did not exist. You accepted that. As it stands, there are millions of people who believe in an entity called "God." Why do you believe he exists, yet Santa is fake? Could Santa not be real then?
2. You have had a rough couple of months, and church's excel at creating an environment that make emotional people feel good. There is nothing wrong with feeling good, but religion can, and does, exploit that. When they talk to you, try to keep in mind that they may have ulterior motives, with what they say.
3. I will explain an experience I had with a preacher, who said my belief an evolution was ridiculous, yet I should accept his belief in an invisible being. This is a preacher that pulled up in front of my house, while I was working in my driveway. Religion is pushy, and if you don't believe exactly what they believe and how they believe it, then you are cast out.
4. I will explain to him how the church is anti science and I was thinking of making him watch the Ken Ham debate with Bill Nye.**

This guys strat is bad.

His wife will find out and belittle him about it

Because Santa was made intentionally as an urban legend, God was created in order to convince people he is in actuality real.

Santa isn't supposed to be believable, God is somewhat

Brothers, there is no need for such empty games and drama. The pure and full life is within reach. Anarcho-Agrarianism will win.

@Suda it's true bro

the concepts of God and religion was made specifically to convince people they exist

Santa didn't leave a fucking bible did he

Is that actually where the origin of the santa tradition comes from? I know it was said nick but was it actually developed for that purpose?

I know satanism was developed as a catholic fearmonger

Yeah, good tidings and all that shit, in order to make kids feel good

Whereas people work their asses off to convince people God, whichever one, is real

I don't know how to answer the second question

Just shows how fucking ludicrous the whole thing is..

Noble Lie my dude

if you wanna believe that

@John Grandfather Frost is the only true God.

3 and 4 are literally not even questions

Wot?

see how they're numbered

3 and 4 are just statements on what he intends to do

2nd one I still don't know how to answer

O eye sea

This guy is a bit of a dummie.

He should just let the kid grow up secularly

If forced to choose between a god and uncertainty a child would always choose god.

Because they can't understand atheism.

I think the whole ulterior motive of religion is actually just general altruism. People feel good and they want to share the experience, like dumbass cute cat photos people send literally everywhere. Makes them laugh and seeing your friends laugh usually makes you laugh more. There's also a darker side too in trying to convince people of a religion forcibly, like Muslims. Governments use shit like "divine placement" to justify their position as a ruler in some Arabic countries, same could go for Catholics, a shifting of power from an individual to a whole organization that allows them to influence people's decisions

only real answer I could come up with off the top of my head

which is why I somewhat support congregationalism

Religions purpose was to eliminate uncertainty. Before we developed concepts like existentialism and nihilism it's all they had. Living is scary and religion was there to tell people everything will be alright. Religious doctrine pretends to have answers it does not have.