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Why should they? If it is an acquired taste, it automatically mean's you don't like it and that it requires, some sort of, force to make you taste it again.

Tell that to the strawman. I wouldn't have left a red 1, but the post didn't deserve a green 1. Because you're conflating santa and god in an attempt to ridicule my premise, not argue it. But just to be clear, most philosophical/cultural attacks on religion revolves around the existence of god (or santa if you prefer), rather than the credence of the philosophies written.

Well, if you're going to use a logical fallacy to explain my faulty logic, I can't take you seriously.

Therefore, can a parodox ever exist?

Besides, I think you're missing some context. The paradoxical bit.

Why not?

Please explain.

It's a genuine paradox: Atheist/"arelionist", whatever, state's as a matter of fact, there is no such thing as god/s. (Edit let's not get into semantics here.) So therefore, in a world without God's, the bible and the idea's therein have to be written by man and accepted by their fellow man. So therefore, if a lot of people, even in the face of cultural difference, say "that's an idea worth following". No God needed. Therefore, God has become a weapon for atheism/<insert word>. 🤔

Bugger, I'm too late again, god only knows what religion will be the latest version...

Depends on the teacher, none of which were God's... Being an atheist, doesn't have to mean that you don't believe in Jesus, Mohamed etc... 😉

Then I'm not sure why we are talking about it, in the first place. Perhaps it's like a posh person serving caviar at a very expensive dinner party, just for the chance to say "it's an aquired taste, my dear", because they know you won't like it, because they didn't when they heard about it, and therefore I am so much less nieve than you, ergo more sophisticated. I don't like any sex scene, especially with dolby, because I hate the sound of kissing 😝; I've never felt the need to find out why, I just put my fingers in my ear and pretend it's not happening. I don't rewind the tape in order to collect data/evidence of why I should be outraged Why not? Any prejudice, will automatically lead to an assumption of some sort...

The definition of tolerate automatically means that you don't like it, you don't have to look. It's not your likes that are important, everyone's happy with their likes, it's the attitude towards your dislikes that should change.

Yep, that's how...

If that were true of every human, then how did Hitler raise an army?

Rito, boss...

Think about it...

Nope, it's evidence that you can't, proof is a very different question.

Can you though?

Indeed, but fundamentally, you had to suck teat first... 😣 How many times... Well, you would say that... 🙄 Every one that counts... 🤞

History is my evidence; for instance, Hitler loved his dog, a very human thing, even for a full blown monster... Every person, that's survived into adulthood, started out with only one capability, sucking on a teat. Just because you can't see your bias, doesn't mean it's not there; you'd have to travel a mile in my shoes to understand mine. Imagine the sort of horrible existance Hitler must have suffered, that made him love dog's more than human's. I'm more inclined to have pity for him, while thanking <insert deity of choice, including the scientific definition.> that I'm not him. I do this by assuming his humanity, because he's the right shape. It's not about intellect, how else do you explain why every supervilan has a doctorate.

I'm starting to run out of ways to say the same thing; let me have a think. 🤔

Well, we are all capable of caring for something other than ourselves, even the really evil barstewards. And as @TheVat alludes, our cultural bias is the most insidious and, I think, the most difficult to recognise; because, as we know, the box is notoriusly difficult to think outside of. Indeed, the waters are muddy enough...

The point of the metaphor is, we both start out the same shape, it's the enviroment that alters the shape; as I've mentioned before a bully is made not born. So what I'm saying is, given the right enviroment we're all capable of anything* a human is capable of both very, very good and very, very, very bad and however much you deny it, it's also true of you and me. * almost, there are caveats but that's for a different thread.

We are all human shaped, much like every snowflake is snowflake shaped; each is unique within that shape but ultimately the same. When/if we get it, then we can shape the future of both. I don't know about this. Indeed, https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm Religion is not about God/s, it's about us...