RE: Is atheism ever a faith?
October 24, 2008 at 4:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2008 at 4:40 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 24, 2008 at 12:47 pm)chatpilot Wrote: In the first quote I was bending over backwards it was intentional.The second quote is where I currently stand.Now,what I mean by saying that I am fully convinced that there is no god is that so far the evidence that I have come across has led me to beleive that.Yeah, well thats what I thought and you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
Since in my view religion is nothing more than a primitivistic worldview to attempt to explain those things which in more ancient times were unexplainable or unknowable.The concept of a god comes from the realm of myths and a lack of understanding by a primitive people prior to the advent of science.
I don't think if man was not curious as to his origins (which he is),that we would even have a concept of god or gods.The idea of a being creating and watching over us is primitive and outdated.Most religious explanations of the universe or the world have been proven wrong by the sciences.This view has led me to believe that there is no god.I am 100 percent sure that there is none.But that is my opinion.
I myself believe God is just about as improbable you can get without being impossible. He probably is impossible, but he might not be IMO.
I don't believe we can know anything 100%, but I also don't believe we can't even know this. So I think its possible we CAN know some things 100%. I think its possible, but highly improbable, because even if we know for sure..how do we know that we know for sure?. I don't see how we can. We might be wrong.
Confusing I know, hope it made atleast some sense.