Reminds me of Hogfather: You have to start out learning to believe the little lies...so you can believe the big ones

Surprisingly enough Nietzsche actually taught me how to respect Religion

I can see that

In his book beyond good and evil

Im trying to remember the quote

I have the book on my desk, I should pull it up.

"The worth of an opinion is not how true it is, but the value it holds" or something like that

Religion from a philosophical, societal and traditional standpoint can actually be rather unifying and centering for a lot of people. The problem is when people take it to either a dogmatic end or worse commit atrocities in the name of said Religion

but that's any philosophy

see social justice

The problem is the majority of religious people aren't philosophers and do indeed take it to a dogmatic respect

this is very true

but as far as religious philosophers go, I see them intellectually as equals

to any atheistic philosopher

in terms of how much I respect them

very open minded of you in 2019

Thanks man, I'm still an atheist, but yea, religion definitely has its place imo

except William Lane Craig

no respect for that hack

I was an Atheist/Agnostic up until about a year ago

@yearspastmatter hahahaha

Who the heck is that?

So you know good and well that atheists can be just as bad as the dogmatism we see in religion

I think they annoy me more tbh lol

William Lane Craig is a professional Christian apologist/debater/Gish galloper

You can still learn quite a bit of real philosophy from tearing apart WLC.

he's into Cosmology (not the hairdresser stuff)

Cosmetology lol

I get those confused too

he's about as kooky as it comes

Although i'm very much annoyed with people who treat science like the gospel that can't be changed.

well, it's the same thing. They're dogmatic about it

It might as well be the cosmetological argument for God.

yeah William Lane Craig tends to have debates with scientists rather than with atheist Bible scholars

the cosmetological argument for God...I guess that would be the fine-tuning argument

Is he a televangelist or some shit?

no he's a professor

I just wound up being areligious, I was an atheist, then an agnostic, then I just stopped caring at all about the subject from a spiritual view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYm41hb48o

Rip

and another good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKObSeim2w