RE: Why are atheist...atheist?
August 17, 2011 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2011 at 9:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, for me, it isn't so much that I rule out gods or the supernatural, just any description of either that we've been able to muster up thus far. I have serious doubts about the concept of supernatural to begin with. Seems to me to be a linguistic holdover from a far less informed time. Everything that has ever been pointed at and called supernatural turned out to be entirely natural, or an unfortunate misunderstanding of natural things. The idea that the natural and the supernatural were somehow different, that sort of divider line, isn't exactly an ancient concept anyway. There was no distinction between our world and the world of the supernatural, our world was a supernatural one, to the founders of most religious faiths, even up to and including the "Big Three". It's only after carefully looking that we've realized that there is a difference. Namely that our world appears to exist, while theirs does not.
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