re: #28 jamesfirecat

Just to spell out why I downding, if you can’t see how the idea of having someone who grew up with the more extreme views of a culture/religion in their family decides the best thing to do sis to leave said culture/religion entirely happens to be a massive insult to that religion /culture, then it don’t know what to tell you.

If a culture/religion can’t handle someone leaving it based on a change of conscience and consideration of facts, than said culture/religion highly deserves to be insulted. If you can’t understand that simple fact, then I don’t know what to tell you.

A lot of the rest of your post is silly since sexuality is not a choice and religion is. Then there’s this:

Also once again it needs to be argued how “rational” a point of view is atheism in a universe where we know for an observable, testable, repeatable fact that Thor (and the rest of the Asgardian pantheon) exist?

In a universe where the Asgardian pantheon exists, Islam, which claims strict monotheism, would be even more ridiculous than in the real universe, now, wouldn’t it?