I blame autocorrect. Or- Finnish-Americans spell 'Sisu' as 'Susu'! OR - more likely- the mods changed the title as a conspiracy!
Looks like they wanted a "top 10" list but ran out of real conspiracies after 9 and fllled the list out with some #legit theory
"10. Reptilian humanoids control all of us. This has to be one of the wackiest theories I've encountered so far. It was started by a 1999 book written by David Icke called, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World. In it, he explains that most world leaders -- including quite a few U.S. presidents -- are actually shape-shifting reptilian beings from a different planet who start wars and are responsible for horrific events like 9/11 in order to promote fear and hatred, which gives them strength. Oh, and they're seven feet tall. Reptilian humanoids … who knew?" baahahahahahaha What really makes me chuckle about this conspiracy theory is that humans are the only known source of evil in this universe, who needs Lizard people ffs. Could they be any worse than us humans if they existed, I doubt it. Lizard people, lol, next they'll be telling us Khorasan are real... oh wait..
There you go again with your verbose yet unproven claims!!! "humans are the only known source of evil in this universe" many believers from many faiths would totally disagree with that. Whilst the perpetrators of most 'evil' acts are generally human the source of such evil would be the various manifestations of The Devil who they would claim does exist in the universe. As the number of those believers vastly outnumber both atheists and agnostics, the democratic certainty lies with them and not you!
either this is sarcasm or one of the most ******ed things ever spoken by a human being (BTW, even assuming all Judeo-Christian-Islamic relgions agree (which they don't) and including children who can't even speak but are counted as religious anyway, you still have a maximum of 3.7 billion people which does not "vastly outnumber" the 3.4 billion non-Judeo-Christian-Islamic people )
The concept of evil is far wider than Judeo-Christian or even Islamic religions so you maths is pretty wide of the mark. You also have to consider the effects upon individual psychology who, whilst professing no religious faith, have their ideas, concepts and understandings influenced by the societies that they live in. I know it hurts the atheistic community to accept the fact that more people believe in some form of God (and hence the Devil) than believe in the power of human conciousness. Guess you'll either just have to live with that fact or cry in the dark!
It doesn't 'hurt' me one jot. I couldn't give a knack what you or anyone else cares to believe about the origins of life and it's possible creator. I do have my views on many of the religious fables though and I choose to believe that most of them are pure poppycock, that is also my prerogative. I also find it interesting that you think that anyone who accepts that there's some form of God, also defacto therefore accepts the existence of a counter balance i.e. the devil, this simply isn't so.
Hmmm. Sometimes irks me to admit it, but once again you make a fascinating point. What is evil? Have you seen a troop (proper collective noun?) of chimpanzees celebrating and taunting their victims' groups when they've hunted down monkeys for prey? Or Orca flipping baby seals about for as long as they're still alive? Not comparable to the Holocaust, for sure, but that, perhaps, is surely inverse to the intelligence and means available to them. Maybe psychopathy actually overtakes the need for empathy and altruism that communal animals, from ants to wild dogs, develop in their social structures, as imagination and leisure extends. Read a book some while back by Jim Holt, reviewing the old question of existence and where did it all come from. A philosopher dude called John Leslie who believes there's an ethical need for a universe; sort of building on Spinoza's theme that the universe could only have been created out of a need for goodness. Seems crap to me - good and evil are relative concepts that we, as communities made up of individuals influence (obviously, some have more influence/power than others, rightly or wrongly). For all our high-minded presumptions of 'goodness', we're only ever an apocalypse away from a Lord of the Flies/Mad Max type reverting to savagery.
OK Tobes then you demonstrate clearly which religions postulate a diety that does not have some countervailing entity? As for your prerogative, who is arguing? However, I too have the right to find the atheistic contention of superiority laughable.
Actually- Jewish people don't believe in the devil as a "being". They do use the word Satan, but it means more of an evil obstacle rather than a specific being. Even that only started showing up in Jewish texts after the Jewish people encountered Zorasterism in Babylon. The Islamic people believe in Satan, but he's far less powerful/important than he is in Xian texts (can only pass evil thoughts to people). Satan in modern religions is pretty much confined to Xianity (in the form that you view him). 1/3 people on earth are Xian- so most people don't believe in the Devil (at least the Xian devil).
