RE: Is Atheism Intellectual Cowardice?
August 20, 2011 at 5:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2011 at 5:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Agnosticism was a strong argument for it's time because much was left unexplained by anything other than religion. At this point we know the creations stories are stories, that the various histories of various religions are stories, and that events that were attributed to god or gods are in actuality perfectly natural.
We could perhaps be agnostic about gods not yet described, but the ones that have been described thusfar are all equally bullshit. You're not agnostic about Tiamat or Zues or John Army I'm guessing? Today, an agnostics god is only one which has been removed from any area of human experience so as to fit an argument. But hey, that's just my opinion.
BTW, I do absolutely feel that belief in magic pretty much dooms a person to dunce-hood. It is what it is. Are you gonna be the guy that argues for the tooth fairy and then demands intellectual respect? I hope not.
We could perhaps be agnostic about gods not yet described, but the ones that have been described thusfar are all equally bullshit. You're not agnostic about Tiamat or Zues or John Army I'm guessing? Today, an agnostics god is only one which has been removed from any area of human experience so as to fit an argument. But hey, that's just my opinion.
BTW, I do absolutely feel that belief in magic pretty much dooms a person to dunce-hood. It is what it is. Are you gonna be the guy that argues for the tooth fairy and then demands intellectual respect? I hope not.
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