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Well that’s a compelling reason to change my mind? You’re offended on behalf of someone else that you admit that you can’t understand why they’re religious ?
You’re upset with me for being reductionist on behalf of someone else’s reductionist superstition?
Wow.
Why not. Ask him? “Why do you believe in magic? Do you really believe in magic?”
Second hand offense. Wow. Hot damn. I’ve never achieved that before.
No he doesn’t believe in magic. He just believes that there has to be a creator of sorts and that doesn’t necessarily need to be a person, it could be anything that we can’t comprehend.
I don’t believe the same but it would be mighty arrogant of me to claim my believe in we ended here out of randomness is any more convincing.
So... magic.
It is pretty magical that we are here.
As I said above that isn’t really what my boss believes either. He just believes in a creator and really we are not going to refute that claim or substantiate any claim we believe.
I prefer to just judge people on their merit and actions and not my preconceived notions of religion, which is pretty skewed for anyone that spent any amount of time on Reddit.
Said this several times now but it’s not like he literally believes in a human form that created the universe. It’s just he believes that it was created my something and not just random.
I’ve never met any religious people forcing their ideology on me, perhaps that an American thing. On the whole I’ve had nothing but positive interactions with religious folk and they support local communities and historically are involved in a lot more charitable work than the average person.
I have a suspicion that your view of religion is shaped by your experience online as it was for me, but if you actually take the time to engage with these people IRL they’re just people and I will never level all of any group as X as that’s fucking stupid.
I’m going to end the discussion here.
The audacity to say that you don’t believe me when I have zero reason to lie is to far for me to continue this conversation.
Have a wonderful day all the same and perhaps introspect on the way you converse with people.