(November 24, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:Quote:(7) There is no God, and I am certain of this.
(High 6) I firmly believe there is no God, but there is a teeny tiny possibility I could be wrong.
(Low 6) I believe there is no God, but there is a possibility I could be wrong.
(5 or 6 depending on interpretation) I really don't know if there is a God or not, but since I have not yet seen any evidence, I live my life as though there isn't.*
(4) I have no idea one way or the other, and am always weighing both possibilities in my head.
I say I'm a solid six because I'm not inclined to be skeptical, I've extremely skeptical given the long history of god-claims being debunked, so to speak. Every time in history to date that a theistic claim has come under serious scientific scrutiny it has either been conclusively shown that the claim has a natural cause (lightening instead of god's wrath, mental illness instead of demons, germ theory of disease instead of curses, etc.) or no cause has yet been found, so to claim god as the cause of that phenomenon is an argument from ignorance. At the same time I cannot call myself a 7 because that's philosophically and evidentially unjustifiable (as unjustifiable to me as a theist claiming to be a 1), so I'm a 6. (Depending on the day and how crotchety I'm feeling, I could be a 6.9, a 6.5 or even a 5.5)
Until the trend of finding natural explanations for things claimed as the will or act of a god suddenly begins to reverse, then I kind of don't have a choice in the matter.
Yeah, I definitely meant for the "do not know, but live as if there is no God" option to be between a 5 and a 4, but I can see how it can be interpreted differently. Everything else is right on, except maybe the "weak 6" would be between a 6 and a 5... lol. Ahh, this is getting complicated lol.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh