RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 25, 2016 at 5:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2016 at 5:10 pm by Simon Moon.)
(March 25, 2016 at 4:43 pm)Felasco Wrote:Quote:Do you currently accept the premise that a god exists, to be true?
No comma needed in that sentence, don't recall anybody asking this above, and the answer is I have not the slightest idea whether a god exists, as would already be clear to anybody actually reading my posts.
It's been asked. I will get the post numbers if needed.
I hate to break it to you, but that would make you an atheist.
You seem to be responding to a question I am not asking. I don't care whether you do not claim to know if a god exists. I am asking about a belief, not knowledge.
If the answer to the question, "do you believe a god exists" is anything besides "yes", that is atheism.
For clarity, belief is defined as the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition to be true. Belief is a binary mental state. Either one accepts the premise that a god exist to be true (theism), or they do not accept the premise (atheism).
There is no middle ground between belief and disbelief. Agnosticism is not a fence sitting position.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
