RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
August 24, 2017 at 6:49 pm
Well this topic is nothing but the classic "You can't prove that God does not exist" and again for uptinth time atheism is not a declaration that no gods exist. Atheism is no belief in gods. That's all. The absence of belief is not the same as knowledge about the nonexistence of gods. The universe is a big place. A few gods might be hiding somewhere over in the next galaxy. Or fairies, or Borg. So if someone says to me, "Fairies are real and you should believe in them," it's not my responsibility to prove that fairies don't exist.
Same thing is with the rest of the gods that are not part of "your" religion. Like your inability to disprove the existence of god Daksha mean that he must be real so everybody should worship him?
Same thing is with the rest of the gods that are not part of "your" religion. Like your inability to disprove the existence of god Daksha mean that he must be real so everybody should worship him?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
