Inconceivable!

This logic is not sound. Why couldn't be the case that only one religion is right?

Three people looking at a triangle might have different opinions about what shape it is. It is inconceivable that they are all right, but that does not imply that they are all wrong.

Say I have 6 people all guessing a different result of a roll of a D6. It's inconceivable that they are all right, and it's absolutely not a "reasonable conclusion" that they are all wrong.

Additionally, if we include the people who believe they know there is no god (a position held with no proof) as a religion (which is not much of a stretch) then it's also included in the " they are all wrong" group.

I lack a belief in a god because I've been provided no evidence that own exists, but the logic in this picture is full of holes.

I miss Hitch

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.

I like the explanation of AI with a pencil and googly eyes. Give the pencil some googly eyes and call it Mohammed, or Carl, and talk to someone with it, using ventriloquism or something, doesn't have to be good. They will form an emotional connection to the pencil and react, some even violently, if the pencil is broken midconversation in front of them.

That is the reason why people think AI is a thing. That is also why people think a god is a thing. They are wrong in both cases.

Gods are never real in a sense of natural science, they have no body, no voice; they aren't existant. They exist as an idea, a thought people have.

Gods never work in the physical world, none of them have a will, they can only be used to steer people through the people's thoughts.

They are all wrong... only Doug Forcett got it right

Since it's inconceivable that everything on TV is true, then everything on TV must be false!

Seriously what terrible quote from a terrible chud.

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.

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.

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.

You only need to worship 1 thing in this world.

The Stanley Cup

As a religious/spiritual person I agree, and I don't see how that's a bad thing. In science we understand that our models are all wrong, and only the next most accurate representation of a part of reality until a newer discovery or testing allows us to make even more refined models.

All religions can benefit from an application of the scientific method.

Or god is an asshole. He knows the correct way to reach heaven and only told one person.

Since it's inconceivable that all religions can be right

It's not that inconceivable. I think religions are flawed interpretations of a single truth that seems to be universal to human existence.

Study enough religions and you start to see how they rhyme.

Or puts on tinfoil hat They’re all right because reality is an illusion created by quanta’s consciousness.

Honestly, might not be a bad idea for a novel…