Message from @Shadows

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2018-11-05 00:56:36 UTC  

I'll try to elaborate if you want, for when you come back

2018-11-05 01:01:34 UTC  

The premise is according to muslims: islam is spreading to the entire world, and it is growing faster than all other religions, therefore it is true. But if we were to take two opposing ideas and observe that one idea has more popularity, we can't say that the more popular one is objectively correct while the other is false. That is an argumentum ad populum, an appeal to popularity.

2018-11-05 01:04:06 UTC  

Islam is only growing because muslims have more children than those of other religions, or the religious unaffiliated. They have several more children on average than others.

2018-11-05 01:04:40 UTC  

Breeding like rabbits

2018-11-05 01:04:51 UTC  

Multiple wives and welfare states tend to encourage that

2018-11-05 01:06:03 UTC  

Women don't have any opportunities in their countries. they do much less than women of other religions. They're at home all day, and so they have lots of kids.
And apostasy. Once you enter the religion, you don't leave the religion

2018-11-05 01:06:26 UTC  

With Christianity, people leave with no consequence (unless they live in some cult-like family, I suppose)

2018-11-05 01:06:30 UTC  

Under penalty of death too Lel

2018-11-05 01:07:10 UTC  

(and well, other consequences that they may have when they die, naturally)

2018-11-05 01:07:20 UTC  

Yeah

2018-11-05 01:08:11 UTC  

The more you read into Islam, the more you see just how insecure they are about their religion and faith

2018-11-05 01:08:27 UTC  

They just can't get over it when you challenge them

2018-11-05 01:09:10 UTC  

And it becomes absurd by the second when they throw fallacy after fallacy after you, or make stuff up as they go

2018-11-05 01:09:30 UTC  

#notallmuslims lel

2018-11-05 01:09:51 UTC  

is there a stream?

2018-11-05 01:11:16 UTC  

in about 48 minutes, yeah

2018-11-05 01:13:39 UTC  

Gotta love that daylight savings lol

2018-11-05 01:22:52 UTC  

@RoadtoDawn I don’t think it’s really as simple as ad populum.

2018-11-05 01:26:59 UTC  

@Salacious Swanky Cat What i said earlier i was just being funny, but i also believe that atheism is defensible (you said you don't think it is), as i think everything a person "believes" needs to be challenged. The other thing you said (which is true), that not everyone has all info on a topic/issue so flaws can form.

2018-11-05 01:27:16 UTC  

But I'm Flawless!

2018-11-05 01:27:29 UTC  

*unless i'm not*

2018-11-05 01:28:10 UTC  

@RoadtoDawn it’s that insecurity which I find tragically hilarious

2018-11-05 01:28:35 UTC  

The problem with finding it necessary to challenge everything is, you become an autistic skeptic on everything

2018-11-05 01:28:52 UTC  

Everything about its doctrines rely on turning someone into a yesman

2018-11-05 01:30:48 UTC  

@Shadows agnosticism is defensible; atheism isn’.

2018-11-05 01:31:30 UTC  

@Salacious Swanky Cat nowadays, people blend those two terms together

2018-11-05 01:32:03 UTC  

@Salacious Swanky Cat atheism is also slowly dying

2018-11-05 01:32:31 UTC  

the definition of atheism has changed to make them seem reasonable, yet it hasn't alleviated their fatal problems

2018-11-05 01:33:05 UTC  

@Deleted User @RoadtoDawn Islam claims to be a continuation of judo/Christianity, but completely contradicts it in every way. The role and life of Jesus is completely different in every way too.

2018-11-05 01:33:28 UTC  

@RoadtoDawn heh, its great how vigilance just turned into some kind of autism.

2018-11-05 01:34:02 UTC  

@Deleted User totally agree. Atheism has no good arguments. Agnosticism is far more defensible

2018-11-05 01:34:10 UTC  

@Shadows Thankfully, I was able to survive my Skeptic phase. Those times were not something to be proud of lol

2018-11-05 01:34:29 UTC  

when you take things to their logical conclusion, you become a caricature

2018-11-05 01:34:32 UTC  

@RoadtoDawn yes people conflate the two. It’s dumb and done on purpose.

2018-11-05 01:35:13 UTC  

Skeptics have the same problem as classical liberals in that it's all incoherence

2018-11-05 01:36:14 UTC  

is this whole DST thing throwing everyone else off too? I feel lost without my Matt & Blonde fix already lol

2018-11-05 01:37:08 UTC  

I probably won’t watch all of it because I like sleep. Lol

2018-11-05 01:37:33 UTC  

@RoadtoDawn what’s incoherent about classical liberalism?

2018-11-05 01:38:50 UTC  

It's a cult of reason, materialism

2018-11-05 01:39:18 UTC  

@Salacious Swanky Cat I don't think that is true. I can make a great case for either of those. But i do agree that agnosticism is more understandable.

2018-11-05 01:39:36 UTC  

They try to make logical arguments that forsake the transcendental, while simultaneously making a transcendental argument