(June 24, 2017 at 8:02 pm)Whateverist Wrote: 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.Figurative gods are not the subject of the atheist question.
Quote: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.You imagine that there is some other kind of god. There isn't.
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