RE: Is Atheism Intellectual Cowardice?
May 13, 2011 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2011 at 12:13 am by SleepingDemon.)
That was my attempt at satire :-p It seems to me that agnosticism is simply the safe position in most cases. I have a friend who is agnostic because he simply doesn't care either way. I get that. While some people see religion as a massive threat to civilization, I don't, I simply think it is beneath us. I choose atheism as I feel I can move forward having completely dismissed the idea. Diffidus has made several posts where it appears he is torn on the subject, I antagonized him as I felt he needs to confront it and move on.
@diffidus. You still haven't addressed my point that if we are to remain agnostic in regards to supreme beings, we would have to do the same with all mythology, with every creature or being created by man. We would have to take cryptozoologists seriously as scientists because they take a video camera into the wilderness looking to prove Bigfoot is real. We can only speculate the probable, the possible is far too vast. Lines have to be drawn, especially when laws are built around mythological beings. People go to prison in Iran for summoning genies. We have to outgrow this nonsense.
@diffidus. You still haven't addressed my point that if we are to remain agnostic in regards to supreme beings, we would have to do the same with all mythology, with every creature or being created by man. We would have to take cryptozoologists seriously as scientists because they take a video camera into the wilderness looking to prove Bigfoot is real. We can only speculate the probable, the possible is far too vast. Lines have to be drawn, especially when laws are built around mythological beings. People go to prison in Iran for summoning genies. We have to outgrow this nonsense.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
