(June 24, 2017 at 9:05 am)Khemikal Wrote:(June 23, 2017 at 9:24 pm)Whateverist Wrote: If I really thought that was all that "gods" referred to, I would be gnostic atheist. That sort of god is ridiculous.You probably -are- a gnostic atheist.
A great many atheists are probably gnostic atheists..but due to centuries of disinformation, social pressure, and general douchebaggery from the religious nitwits; either fail to recognize themselves as such or do not wish to identify themselves as such.
You might, for example, be sitting there thinking "surely there has to be more to this god shit..it's so painfully ridiculous, there has to be more to it for all these people throughout all this time - a hidden variable"
-There isn't. The nitwits have been desperately -trying- to add the "more" to it for all this time..and the ridiculous shit you're looking at now is the sum total of all that work.
Well, like I said, if I thought that was the whole show I'd be a gnostic atheist. I just don't think so. God belief was real, gods as extra psychic phenomena never were. I'm not sure what it means but I think there may be a worthwhile salvage mission here. Literal gods are not in play, but figaturive ones may be. I want to know what it is about us which evokes such notions. Hey, we all have our vices. But yeah, I'm gnostic in my atheism toward literal gods, you know - the kind nearly every theist has in mind.
