RE: What is your favourite positive argument for atheism/unbelief?
April 13, 2017 at 8:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2017 at 8:25 pm by emjay.)
(April 13, 2017 at 7:49 pm)Lucanus Wrote: Title is pretty much self-explanatory. So basically any argument that isn't "lack of evidence".
For me, I find that my favourite is the fact that basically all religions give humanity (and human concepts such as morality) a central role in how the universe works. This I find laughably naive when compared to our current understanding of reality, and really just serves to prove how flawed of an interpretation of the world religion is.
So, what is your favourite positive argument for atheism?
Yes, and I guess one of mine is a kind of follow on from that; in putting humans at the centre of the universe like that, it doesn't take into account that humans are flawed. Man created in God's image? If so then God has mood swings, confirmation bias, makes bad emotional decisions etc. What I'm saying is it paints humans as entirely superior to animals... 'the rational animal' and it's simply not true (imo). We're not perfect and most of our decisions and beliefs are influenced by emotion to some degree or another, even when we are being rational.
