RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2015 at 12:58 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 25, 2015 at 12:50 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(November 25, 2015 at 12:42 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: I guess it does. But I make no knowledge claims about the silly beliefs because they neither warrant nor permit any final judgement. Agnostic atheists aren't spending their days or nights fretting over some tiny percent of uncertainty regarding the existence of gods. We're all getting about our lives and contemplating those things which strike us as interesting and worthwhile.
Which is kind of my point in my first post. Functionally, agnostics are no different than gnostics. They've simply decide to keep open the possibility that a god exists out of intellectual integrity and the claim that they can't know for certain a god does not exist. I think the failure over several millennia to produce even one shred of evidence for god doesn't warrant holding onto such uncertainty. The claim itself and its history of failure dictates that it should be fully dismissed, and holding onto uncertainty is not actually where intellectual integrity leads us.
Ahh but there is plenty of evidence that god belief does exist and has for a very, very long time. If it should turn out that god belief was a side effect of self awareness, I think that needs to be understood. But not just to dismiss it as a literal belief. (That shouldn't even be in contention at this late date.) What about the way the mind works supports that belief and almost universally generates it?
As for confronting those who still hold on to god belief in a literal way, I guess I'm just not very confrontational.