(November 5, 2013 at 10:00 pm)Polaris Wrote:(November 5, 2013 at 7:53 am)ToriJ Wrote: Atheist is the default stance one takes when everything else lacks sufficient evidence. Where's the ignorance exactly?
Isn't it agnosticism more specifically?
I think I do agree with you Polaris. If one cares about evidence and finds none for whatever it is that people mean by 'gods', then first and foremost one will be agnostic. But someone raised in a religion who has formed the hunch that God listens may reasonably decide to go on believing and communing with this God. The lack of evidence would seem to provide a green light for either belief or disbelief. Personally I have a great deal of respect for such people and I have met a few online.
My own inclination is toward no god but I feel no need to argue for it. At most I could point out how various beliefs regarding any particular god are self-contradictory. I certainly could not rule out any possible conception of gods. It just isn't a very important issue to me. So we live in a world where grown people believe in such things. Weird, but I'm over it.