(December 4, 2017 at 6:02 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: How in the world could anyone find atheism a coherent and satisfying intellectual stance?
Existence is. It doesn't need any explanation. I don't have to jump through any hoops. There are no apologetics. I don't have to make stuff up. I just observe as best I can, and that's that. It's really not even Atheism. It's just acceptance that what is is. If a God showed up tomorrow, and said "Hey guys, you know the 3rd Episcopal Church of downtown St. Louis is actually the real church." That'd be that. I'd act accordingly. It wouldn't change anything about my fundamental notions of just observing, and behaving accordingly.
I think, for me, it's about starting with as few assumptions as possible, and seeing where that takes me.