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Most Theists are 99% Atheists

What I mean by that is, your typical theist (lets say for specificity's sake we mean Christian), will deny the existence of Egyptian gods like Ra and Horus and Anubis, or Zeus and Poseidon, or Mars and Jupiter, or the Mesopotamian gods or the deities in Native American cultures or any god but their own. How is your god any more or less real than Zeus? Don't tell me it's because of the Bible. What makes the Bible so special? There's literature that talks about Zeus' desires too, and those of Aphrodite and Hera and all the gods-it's Homer's Illiad and Odyssey.

Even if you argue that those poems weren't divine or divinely inspired like the Bible, it doesn't change the fact that the Ancient Greeks knew what the gods wanted, just like you know what your god wants. But how are two primordial beings creating the earth and time, have children that fight and then have children of their own and one of these first children eats 3 of the grandchildren any more or less realistic than a single primordial being creating the earth and time and the sun and the stars and everything and then taking a break after 6 days?

Brian_Blum 4 Nov 27
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Madalyn Murray O’Hair once said (something like), “We’re not that far apart,” “I only believe in one less god than you.”

Varn Level 8 Nov 27, 2018
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At present there an estimated 30,000+ Gods/Deities worshipped around the world and every worshipper will loudly proclaim that theirs is/are the 'One True God/s.'
In human history there have been an estimated 300 MILLION different Gods/Goddesses, etc, worshipped yet every one of them has eventually fallen by the wayside at some time or another only to be replaced by a 'better' version.
Every Deity created in the mind of man carries the traits, both good and bad, of Man because that is how humans create them in the first place, imagination is very powerful thing, it can either bring joy, knowledge, contentment, etc, OR, as in the case of religion, repression, suppression, divisiveness, hatred and everything wrong in society.

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I’ve simply asked to explain the nicean council and I usually get what’s that? So even though what you’re saying is extremely true I feel as though you’d get the same results as trying to tell a goldfish why they need clean water

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Richard Dawkins said "We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further". Every religion denies every other religion, and will vow theirs is the only true god. Thank the FSM that they're all wrong. Every one.

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You make very good points in your post.

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