RE: Atheism vs. God's Existence
May 17, 2016 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 10:25 pm by robvalue.)
I've never been anything but an atheist. I just didn't know there was a word for it.
People can't tell me what a god is. So I've never got past the point of understanding the question. How do I tell a god from a non-god? Seriously, if theists can't answer that, how can I make sense of the question?
If people would just say "an intelligent creator" and stop saying so much shit afterwards, I'll happily settle for "I have no beliefs about that". It's an unfalsifiable proposition as far as I can see, and therefor useless. I don't have sufficient reason to believe it is or isn't the case. Maybe this is a computer program. Maybe this is VR. Maybe this is a manifestation of an emergent process.
If we're talking specifically about the bible, it's just a stupid book. There's absolutely no reason to believe it's of any value outside some historical interest. The ludicrous claims it makes do not correlate with reality, and believing magical characters in it are real is ridiculous. It's only the oral myths surrounding it, and indoctrination, that make anyone think for a second it's anything but fiction.
I also don't care. God or no god, whatever it is, makes no difference to me.
People can't tell me what a god is. So I've never got past the point of understanding the question. How do I tell a god from a non-god? Seriously, if theists can't answer that, how can I make sense of the question?
If people would just say "an intelligent creator" and stop saying so much shit afterwards, I'll happily settle for "I have no beliefs about that". It's an unfalsifiable proposition as far as I can see, and therefor useless. I don't have sufficient reason to believe it is or isn't the case. Maybe this is a computer program. Maybe this is VR. Maybe this is a manifestation of an emergent process.
If we're talking specifically about the bible, it's just a stupid book. There's absolutely no reason to believe it's of any value outside some historical interest. The ludicrous claims it makes do not correlate with reality, and believing magical characters in it are real is ridiculous. It's only the oral myths surrounding it, and indoctrination, that make anyone think for a second it's anything but fiction.
I also don't care. God or no god, whatever it is, makes no difference to me.
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