RE: Am I an Agnostic?
July 4, 2011 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2011 at 11:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
My brush is neccessarily broad, in that I've always maintained that the whole idea of a god; start to finish, is foolish and requires that one close their eyes to almost the entirety of human knowledge on nearly every subject. When pressed for why I make this statement, I link or explain things from fact, from direct observation. Have you ever known me to offer up a platitude instead of an actual argument? In what way, exactly, are my tactics or arguments similar to the arguments you've seen me field from believers?
That I am closed to the idea of any specific god, in the same way that a believer is closed to the idea of "no specific god" is perhaps superficially true....the similarity ends the minute I explain myself though doesn't it.
When asked how I can absolutely know that a specific god doesn't exist..I point to a cargo cult. When a believer is asked how they can know that their specific god does exist..........? That I am unwilling to accept the factual reality of a cargo cult is not a "just because" kind of thing, I'm refusing to accept their point of view because it is demonstrably false.
That I am closed to the idea of any specific god, in the same way that a believer is closed to the idea of "no specific god" is perhaps superficially true....the similarity ends the minute I explain myself though doesn't it.
When asked how I can absolutely know that a specific god doesn't exist..I point to a cargo cult. When a believer is asked how they can know that their specific god does exist..........? That I am unwilling to accept the factual reality of a cargo cult is not a "just because" kind of thing, I'm refusing to accept their point of view because it is demonstrably false.
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