I would be a 9/10 too regarding the existence of a deity, a 9.9 is still to me a position of agnostic atheism, only 1 and 10 are positions of Gnosticism, knowledge being equal to absolute certainty.
I disagree that we cannot be absolutely certain about anything, I have knowledge that there are no square circles, for instance - The laws of Identity (something is what it is) non-contradiction (something cannot be what it is not) and excluded middle (something cannot be true and false simultaneously) are all things that we can be absolutely certain of, they are true by definition.
Why worship it? Pragmatism perhaps, the alternative could be worse....
With something as conceptually flimsy as a god, shrouded in obscurity and described always in the most vague of terms, there is no "problem of evil", the god 'hypothesis' can be infinitely ad-hoced. Was someone to actually present a coherent and comprehensive definition of God things may be different.
I disagree that we cannot be absolutely certain about anything, I have knowledge that there are no square circles, for instance - The laws of Identity (something is what it is) non-contradiction (something cannot be what it is not) and excluded middle (something cannot be true and false simultaneously) are all things that we can be absolutely certain of, they are true by definition.
Why worship it? Pragmatism perhaps, the alternative could be worse....
With something as conceptually flimsy as a god, shrouded in obscurity and described always in the most vague of terms, there is no "problem of evil", the god 'hypothesis' can be infinitely ad-hoced. Was someone to actually present a coherent and comprehensive definition of God things may be different.
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