God-damn, Door, get online and reply to my initial post.

Long story short, he's a vegan and anti-natalist.

Humans are parasitic on other lifeforms and birth is both non-consensual and creates suffering and therefore bad.

Or something like that...

Pretty much. But I'm not going to turn this into a "vegan/anti-natalist" thread. He can either acknowledge that I find both things wrong and argue from that mindset, or he can stop. I'm not going to push my ideas where they aren't welcomed.

I can hardly have a discussion if you're not going to voice you thoughts.

I'm not trying to have a conversation with someone who starts their statements with "Atheism is just like communism, replacing "god" with science and being arrogant and ignorant all at once.

Sorry, I'm not sorry.

And even if an atheist went out of their way to define morality in a way that wasn't logically equivalent to christian morality...

"Christian morality" is an oxymoron. Taking the religious texts as they were intended -- that is, literally -- demonstrates the barbaric values and principles that the Jews were accustomed to. If you're referring to "modern" Christian morality, it is so watered-down from what it was meant to be that it's essentially a secular viewpoint with a god at the top saying "yeah, do good things", to which, people (seemingly arbitrarily) decide what is "good" and "bad" based on what society says.

If this is your attempt at trying to convert me, you're doing a poor job.

Mass Effect 2 had good trailers AND was a damn good game. Dunno if you played that though.

I didn't care for either, to be honest.

I'm not an atheist because "science disproves religion" or whatever (even though it does). I'm an atheist because every deity I've encountered is just as immoral as its followers -- and any being that claims to be all-powerful, all-knowing, would recognise that eating animals or reproducing is wrong.

I don't believe God exists because there is no evidence, and I'm not a follower of religion because they're all similarly immoral.

Actually, I changed my mind. I think Jensen Ackles could convincingly play me.

Ozymandias from Watchmen.

Nine Inch Nails
Starsailor
Woodkid
David Bowie
King Crimson

The Watchers or whatever from Halo 4.

But on-topic: literally every developer ever. Most of them make cool trailers but shit games. Some of them make cool trailers and cool games, but it's very rare.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on how you reconcile some of the logical and moral inconsistencies. Things like evolution, the big bang, free will, the nature of god, etc.

I have been searching for awhile now, too. [Though admittedly, for different reasons than you.] The biggest hurdles for me, if I was to convert, wouldn't necessarily be the "evidence" (I could see myself believing something about the world without evidence), but the general morality and realism of the Bible. For example, what do you think of hell? Who goes there, and for what? What happens there?

Personally, I don't think the "afterlife", as a concept, really works well with a logically and morally just God, depending on how you answer the above questions. And if it did work well, I couldn't help but feel most of it was simply the "interpretation of the reader" and not actual canon-based, which is something you apparently loathe about Protestantism. [Also, the fact that heaven didn't really exist as a concept until the Greek and Roman influence took hold of the religion doesn't really give it any credence.)

What about free will? Does it exist? If not, then how are we truly in control of our faith? I'd really like to believe, myself, but I just don't see a way that I could possibly reconcile a few of my current philosophies (which I consider to be correct) with that of the Christian faith. But my worldview isn't that different from that of your generic Christian (for example, I believe in objective morality, I don't think free will exists, I'm against drugs, I think people are born "sinful" i.e., shitty or evil, etc.)

If anyone else wants to chime in here with some helpful discussion, that would be great.

You mean Marvel, DC, Star Wars (yup, there will be tie in movies), Godzilla and more coming.

Only one of those is a cinematic universe. The other ones aren't -- yet.

So, again, it isn't a valid complaint to be "sick of them", when you've only experienced one.

It's not that big of a deal. There are worse things happening to more animals every second of the day for less justified reasons.

smoking doesn't look cool, though

Looks cool in Tarantino movies. Looks cool in Metal Gear.

I'm actually just curious as to why I'd be on the list at all. I don't even have a level of fighting expertise man. I'm physically strong. But I've avoided 90% of all the fights in my life so far by using my head and talking. Not throwing somebody around to the next province.

And I ain't gonna fool myself into thinking that just cause I'm strong that I'd be a good fighter. I could probably put up a fight. But I've got no experience otherwise.

Your persona online makes you seem like you have survival experience, living in secluded areas and such. That's all we can base it on.