RE: Discipline/lack of and atheism
June 12, 2017 at 9:57 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2017 at 9:58 am by Whateverist.)
(June 12, 2017 at 9:48 am)Adventurer Wrote: I'd say, all most sensible atheists are agnostic atheists.
To be a gnostic atheist is to know and study every corner of the universe to disprove that god exists.
I consider myself an agnostic atheist as the most logical position.
I wonder how gnostic or strong atheists who rate 7 or higher on Dawkins scale would go about arguing about their thinking.
In my experience the great majority of atheists are also agnostic. It is only regarding our own certainty that we are devoid of god belief that we are gnostic. No claims regarding the nature of that which we do not think exists are warranted, including the insistence that such could not exist. No one knows everything. But I personally do not find the concept of gods anymore tempting on account of considering that they cannot reasonably be ruled out. As a practical matter, it makes very good sense to proceed without consideration of what any god would think or do. Life is finite as is our time for contemplation. Don't waste it on that for which there is no positive basis for belief exists.
