RE: *trigger warning* What if atheism's not all it seems?
December 2, 2017 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2017 at 1:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 2, 2017 at 11:37 am)PhilosophicalZebra Wrote: My point is: you cannot prove the latter to be true. Nor can I prove the former to be true.I'll do you one better, I'll offer you a simple experiment that you can perform for yourself. Go grab your magic book. Turn to a page with god in it, and put your thumb on that page. Now, go ahead and get back to me when god flits off the page and starts doing shit irl. Shit, including granting meaning to the world. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here in a world with plenty of meaning, not believing the shit you think can be extrapolated from an "atheistic worldview" any more than I believe in gods.
I'll wait.
The "what is morality without god" thing has been done to death. It's not as if there aren't a selection of non-god answers to choose from. How would -you- decide what was good or bad -with- god? Just whatever god happens to say, or some other stuff? The "other stuff" is available to theists and atheists alike.
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