RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2015 at 1:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 25, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Kingpin Wrote:(November 25, 2015 at 12:26 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: I feel sorry for the theists that they should feel compelled to profess certainty. There is no reason a theist can't also avail themselves of the intellectual integrity afforded by agnosticism.
The same could be said for some who hold the atheist perspective. Gnostic atheism is just as logically indefensible as gnostic theism.
Hardly, lol. Notify me when characters from books begin to fly out from between the covers which bind them. It's silliness of the highest possible order, and nothing that lends the air of uncertainty. We're told, by believers, that god is really real. When we call bullshit, this ground leveling nonsense is the call to retreat, a consolation prize for those who are plainly and clearly incapable of backing up a claim that they had no interest in pursuing in the first place.
Thousands of years of claims and excuses and earnest testimonials......and yet....there god is...still stuck in the book, still not leaping out. The closest you can get is "well, we're no worse than those guys", and you manage to fuck that up as surely as you've managed to fuck up the mountain of claims behind it? A reasonable person might begin to suspect that they were wrong, but we're not talking about reasonable people here, are we?
To make a -very- long story short, those who argue in favor of fairies have no purchase in a discussion of what is or is not logically defensible. The only thing they've put the effort into achieving is their positions exclusion from the running for the category of logical...and far be it from me to withhold credit where it's due, or deny another the fruit of their labor.
For those who hinge their agnosticism on their inability to know everything, there is no requirement of complete knowledge - that would be illogical. There is -no- statement of certainty which hinges or satisfies such an absurd demand. The god proposition doesn't even rise to that occasion, in any case...as you don't need to know everything in order to comment upon the gods of men with equal certainty as you comment on the rising of the sun, or your own first name.
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