Originally posted by DasaThese are not "fabrications", Dasa. They are the absence of "fabrications". People speculate. They become sure about what they believe. They write things down. They settle on rules and religious procedures etc. etc. It's one person's beliefs set against another's. No evidence or proof of anything.
You say.....
There are no instructions.
There is no soul..
There is no afterlife.
There is no rebirth.
The details and the dogmas and the obligations and the supernatural folk tales are all "fabrications", in the literal sense of the word. They are all examples of created product of conjecture. To say that I don't accept your dogma or I don't accept your certainty cannot be described as "fabrication". Logically speaking, it cannot. It is the absence of "fabrication".
Religion is, by definition, the fabrication - the "making", the "creation" - of a doctrine. I have not fabricated anything. The whole point of my spiritual path is that I refuse to fabricate anything. Neither you nor I know if there is an "afterlife". I refuse to "fabricate" a certainty that there is. Which make me different from religionists.
Originally posted by DasaI eat meat because it is food and I am not a vegetarian.
You kill for food because you need food to stay alive.
And after fabricating all this you say "you are a theist" All this is fabrication.
Well, like it or not, Dasa, I am a theist. I tell you that in all honesty.
Originally posted by Andrew HamiltonNO!
I see an awful lot of constant hypocrisy here on these forums by certain (not all, just an extreme minority) theists:
They constantly lecture to as atheists about love and hate as if we atheists promote hate and are full of hate and are against love and have no love just by being atheist! This is, of course, nonsense. Atheism is not about hate or ...[text shortened]... being evil and hateful for denying the spaghetti monster?
So please, Stop lecturing us!
😀