Nope the poster is a so called teacher insulting Atheists and Agnostics equating us as believers with "belief systems" ....he is full of horseshit and is begging for apologetics not epistemological responses

@Larry68Feminist I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when being asked a question ... perhaps you have more background with @APhg?

@p-nullifidian the believer is bragging about his believer students and insulting us Atheists with his false leading question....fuck him .... if I asked him why he is 99% Atheist rejecting all alleged deity claims except his own, I would be asking the converse question all believers are Atheists except for their alleged true belief....he is the problem in education NOT THE SOLUTION

@Larry68Feminist Although I do not see what you do, like you, I am solution driven, even if I appear unwilling to cast aside sincere knowledge seekers out of hand.

@Allamanda
There's always more to a thing than its theoretical center. (and my view of it is only my view of it)

@OwlInASack
I think it's hard to know what's in another person's mind. In any case though, calling something a "corruption" doesn't sound too generous to me.

@OwlInASack
Among the usual human motivations is one we blame-casters love to forget - the human ability to deceive oneself through the sincerest of intentions. The Mormons have a mythology that is, if only by happenstance, quite closely aligned with human archetypal structures. So, just like the JK Rowling stories, they exert a powerful tug on the human imagination. Even, plausibly, on the heartstrings of its originator. In the end, the group that makes the most babies wins. And believe you me, the Mormons are making babies!

@OwlInASack
I'd be open to hearing why you think they're so clear. I studied Mormonism from both inside and outside the church, and I don't know of any reason to suspect Smith was any less sincere than any human who leads other humans. It looks like a scam from the outside, but I can understand how a human could believe it was true, or at least believe it would be good for people if they believed it was true. I'm not aware of any conclusive evidence that he was insincere. Tell me what you know.

@OwlInASack
Of course they have to be considered capable of knowing. And capable of not knowing. The human capacity for deceiving others is exceeded only by its capacity for deceiving itself.

What are you talking about?

All alleged gawds are bullshit

What adjective would you choose to describe yourself?

@Allamanda Other than what I wrote? I thought it was pretty clear. No god belief. Near 100% doubt.
Is there something else you'd like to know? Not sure what it would be is all.

@Allamanda At this time I really don't. I deconverted from a fundamentalist faith around 5 years ago. I'm so in love with discovering the world for what it really is, mainly through science, that I'm not as much interested in the metaphysical.

@Allamanda Turns out, the world is kind of a piece of shit! But there is beauty is the ugliness. Pleasure in the pain. I'd just rather believe the most true things, and the fewest false things as possible, even if delusion would be comforting. At least for now. I was brainwashed and viewed the world through the lens of faith for 35 years. I'm over it. Maybe permanently.

@Allamanda I have a loving, supportive family, but I'm kinda jealous! I think I only managed to eventually escape the "god glasses" because I was born with a skeptical gene and constantly questioned many things.

@Allamanda What's the culture like in the Virgin Islands? Just as bat-shit crazy religious as the Continental US? Good luck holding public office in this country if you don't claim some relgion.

@BAMFHufflepuff spit on Governor Culbert Olsen grave much ? The Atheists who have dodged McCarthyism and defeated religionistic theocrats at the polls include Mayor Bud Clark of Portland Oregon Cecil Bothwell of Asheville City Council ....playing the victim of theocracy is not defeating theocracy... religious voters will re-elect Atheists who do a good job .. . Many Jewish incumbents are secular and not pandering to believers... you have a point Atheist Walter Mondale pretended to have a faith playing the victim of ReaGUN criminal theocracy....
Obama's father was an Atheist and his son dabbled with islam as a teen calling himself Barry Soetero after his step father in Indonesia his mom an anthropologist having sons by Obama in Kenya and a man in California thus 2 Presidential brothers... his xian grandmother put him in Harvard after his Atheist mom died