this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
37 points (100.0% liked)

Atheist Memes

6222 readers
245 users here now

About

A community for the most based memes from atheists, agnostics, antitheists, and skeptics.

Rules

  1. No Pro-Religious or Anti-Atheist Content.

  2. No Unrelated Content. All posts must be memes related to the topic of atheism and/or religion.

  3. No bigotry.

  4. Attack ideas not people.

  5. Spammers and trolls will be instantly banned no exceptions.

  6. No False Reporting

  7. NSFW posts must be marked as such.

Resources

International Suicide Hotlines

Recovering From Religion

Happy Whole Way

Non Religious Organizations

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Atheist Republic

Atheists for Liberty

American Atheists

Ex-theist Communities

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Other Similar Communities

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The universe didn't force you not to believe in magic. You could have spent your whole life believing magnets are magical stones, that the electromagnetic force is magical energy, and that computer engineers are wizards who conjure spirits from magic. And you could have been 100% factually and scientifically correct.

But you chose to believe that magic is by definition not real, because you didn't want to live in a world of whimsy and wonder. You defined magic as supernatural, in opposition to the natural world. While every scientist knows that nature is just a word for everything that exists. You chose to define magic in a way that it wouldn't exist, denying it through tautology and not through science.

Why did you choose that?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so your definition of magic is anything with complexity and alterability that is not well understood by the perceiver or subject.

So basically, ignorance.

I mean I guess I agree with you that the ignorant will label things that function in ways they do not understand, or take issue with, as magic.

So then! Your original posted meme does not work that well then.

Not sure why you posted a meme where atheists are dumb for defining magic as not real, thus precluding it from being real, when you yourself are an actual antirealist solipsist who does not believe in reality.

Pretty much a perfect example of the classic right wing authoritarian strategy of painting your opponents as bad because they believe in bad thing, when they themselves actually believe in the bad thing.

The 'No U' rhetoric.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No, I understand all the magics I listed except for alchemy very well. You're full of shit.