If you put any stock in the fortunes, IMO that’s in the same ranks as crystals and witchcraft. Maybe it’s not necessarily a belief in God, but it’s epistemologically the same.
He was talking about theism, but regardless this is a “tu quoque” argument. Believing things without evidence or reason is bad whether they’re a theist or an atheist.
Edit: Wait I think I see what you meant now. You’re making a semantic argument and yeah, you’re right lol. Replace “atheist” with “skeptic” and it still works, though.
My god, the no fun police. Fortune cookies are just a fun little thing people have entertaining thought experiments on what the statement in the cookie could be related to in their lives. There is a very near 0 number of people who take these seriously.
Plenty of people say the same thing about horoscopes and crystals, and at the same time plenty of my family members believe in those things wholeheartedly.
They’re two different groups, and if you pay attention to the first words I wrote it’s obvious I’m not talking about the former.
If you put any stock in the fortunes, IMO that’s in the same ranks as crystals and witchcraft. Maybe it’s not necessarily a belief in God, but it’s epistemologically the same.
Atheist just means lack of belief in god though, doesn’t mean you don’t believe other things without evidence.
He was talking about theism, but regardless this is a “tu quoque” argument. Believing things without evidence or reason is bad whether they’re a theist or an atheist.
Edit: Wait I think I see what you meant now. You’re making a semantic argument and yeah, you’re right lol. Replace “atheist” with “skeptic” and it still works, though.
My god, the no fun police. Fortune cookies are just a fun little thing people have entertaining thought experiments on what the statement in the cookie could be related to in their lives. There is a very near 0 number of people who take these seriously.
Plenty of people say the same thing about horoscopes and crystals, and at the same time plenty of my family members believe in those things wholeheartedly.
They’re two different groups, and if you pay attention to the first words I wrote it’s obvious I’m not talking about the former.