• SlothMama@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Isn’t it just as likely that one religion across c all of human history was right than absolutely none from like a ‘logic’ standpoint?

    I’m not a religious person, but the conclusion that all are wrong because all can’t be right is just bad logic and doesn’t follow from the premise.

    • C126@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      2 months ago

      Since it is inconceivable all scientific theories are correct, the most logical conclusion is they are all wrong.

      • SlothMama@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 months ago

        Again, you can’t have multiple competing ideologies be correct concurrently because some are going to conflict, but if at least one matches reality then your concept ( again from a logic standpoint ) is bad.

  • sumguyonline@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    While Hitchens is a bit of an arrogant blowhard. He’s not wrong, they are all mostly wrong with Buddhists being an interesting outlier. The truth is much easier and obvious than “some guy sitting in a cloud smiting us for being what it created us to be”. Think how boring that would eventually get. You want your projects to work, how frustrating would it be to be so incompetent this was all unintentional. God(the admin of this little zone) does not play dice.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    This argument only really works against non-syncretic religions, and there’s a whole lot of syncretic ones. It makes sense it would resonate to a British atheist though.

  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    I mean yes, but that logic is pretty awful. By that logic, there’s no way creationism and evolution could both be right, so they both must be wrong.

    Edit: yes yes I fucking get it. This was just me being pedantic about some guy’s statement, no need to get your fedoras in a knot.