(October 18, 2015 at 8:24 pm)Delicate Wrote:(October 9, 2015 at 11:53 pm)Tartarus Sauce Wrote: Your argument seems to imply that atheism's validity requires absolute truth to be an invalid proposition. In reality, what is more practically pertinent than the existence of absolute truth is whether its verification is even achievable.
Can we, as humans, authenticate statements or concepts as absolutely true? How could we know? If we can't obtain absolute truth, is the question of whether it exists even relevant?
I don't hold that atheism requires one to reject absolute truth. At least I'm not convinced of that yet.
I just know it's fashionable in some skeptical circles to reject the notion of absolute truth. Looking at some of the comments in this thread, it's obvious there are some who aren't happy about it.
The above is a strawman.
"Fashionable" to reject absolute truth? You think this is a matter of aesthetics? No, it's a failure of the proponent of a claim (i.e. you) to produce something worthy of consideration.
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