How am I hurting other people just for believing and how is believing in religion selfish?
I don't have anything against muslims as individuals, however the Quaran does say that muslims are better than non-muslims. Therefore if you say you are muslim then I would expect you to believe that to some level.
After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo there were plenty of Muslims who were vocal at how angry they were for the drawings. They didn't go as far as saying they condoned the murders, they weren't very condemning of them either.
On the other hand there are also plenty of Muslims who are angry at non-muslims attempts to kill murderers in Syria.
Kill French non-muslim satirists for drawing=ok
Kill Muslims for murder=bad and convinced more people to turn into ISIS murderers.
This isn't the view of minority terrorists, these are liberal muslims that some of whom I know personally. When you're sharing a meal with a muslim who has lived in your country for 40 years who is upset that our forces aren't labelled as terrorists then you know there is something up.
Yes, its just scientifically impossible for the universe to have come from nothing, and life cannot emerge from an empty void according to science.
So, god must exist by deductive logic.
No, you've picked up a few logical fallacies in there.
Science has no explanation for how a universe is created, so to say it's scientifically impossible is a lie.
Essentially you've used god to solve a problem you don't understand but now you have two problems.
The universe is everything, including god. He might have made what we know about, but by your on argument he didn't make himself.
pushing the idea that if you believe in something, you're automatically simple-minded and easy to manipulate,
Followers of religion are self selecting, so they do have certain traits. There are plenty of people who say they believe in a religion because there is a payoff, while they don't actually believe it though.
Atheism doesn't make anyone smarter or more clever than a religious person - there's no shortage of atheist idiots and history shows that atheist ideologies have as much of a potential for hate and destruction as religious ones.
He has a pre-conception of what religion is and doesn't take into account the function religion plays in people's lives. "Being religious or not" and "Not being an asshole" are mutually exclusive.
Not a pre-conception, I have a lot of experience. I agree that being an asshole is mutually exclusive. The problem with most relgions is they teach you to look down on non believers.
Just when ISIS started to threaten the royal family, the anti-ISIS mentality started growing. Coincidence? I think not (I always wanted to say that lol). People here were raised with the "my country is better than yours" mentality. And how do they support that claim? By claiming that this country is the most religious and holy place out there.
And you don't think this supports my viewpoint? People supported ISIS when it was beheading foreign non muslim aid workers and journalists, but not when they threatened your royal family. How much would people have tolerated if ISIS had thought your royal family was muslimy enough
Even as a Christian I find the idea that Islam is to blame for terrorism repulsive.
Every country and religion has been involved with fighting over the years. However Islam was born in violence and because it's engrained in the quran then it's very difficult to eradicate it. So you might find the idea repulsive, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.
Everything in life can be broken down to deductive logic, once all the impossible is removed, the only answer left is the right answer. No answer can explain the creation of life, thus the only answer left is a superior being of some sort.
We don't have any idea on what is impossible when it comes to how the universe was created. So you're just guessing.
Your logic proved that god isn't required, because if god exists then something created him. If it's possible for god to come into existence without a creator then it's possible for a universe as well.
Only a fool can believe that the vastness of the universe and the life that resides within such a universe came from nothing.
I could say that only a fool can believe they came from god, but it's not a good argument.
The big bang. When science has more answers about what happened before the big bang then you can use science as an argument about god, until then your arguments are only going to be effective on people who already believe.