RE: What is Atheism?
March 8, 2017 at 5:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2017 at 5:09 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 8, 2017 at 4:17 pm)SteveII Wrote:(March 8, 2017 at 4:06 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I'm not 'deliberately excluding' anything. I'm just not believing in a single claim because I don't think it's met its burden of proof.
But why does assessing a 'burden of proof' have anything to do with it. You could have never heard any proof (nor want to) and have a belief there is not God.
I have a different take on that. I'm fairly sure I've had experiences which believers would attribute to god. I just don't think that is what you think it is or where you think it is. I believe it's something built in and on board, not a separate entity at all. The human psyche is capable of producing many things, what we identify with as our 'selves' is just one of them.
I have no more proof for my intra-psychic god than you do for your concretized god and neither do I claim to have. In my opinion, people would be better off if they understood the numinous my way but I recognize that people may honestly disagree about what counts as "better off". I just can't make sense of a creator genie who poofs galaxies out of 'nothing', lives in the supernatural zone and bestows half of eternity upon us just so He can then reward or punish us forever. Weird stuff I'm not stuck with even though I'm quite able to embrace the numinous with open arms. Oh well, to each his own.
