RE: God: Misinterpreted as an extraterrestrial?
September 25, 2011 at 5:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2011 at 5:26 am by Faith No More.)
(September 25, 2011 at 4:39 am)Stimbo Wrote: I have never understood why those silly "it takes more faith to be an atheist"-type arguments are meant to be so compelling. The only people I've ever encountered that use it are the same ones who, when pressed, insist that their beliefs are and can only be a matter of faith. It seems that 'faith' is one of those strange weasel words - a virtue if I use it, but an idiocy if used by others.
That's because they know faith is a dirty word to atheists, and and when theists are afraid to propose valid reasons for their own beliefs, they try to accuse us of the same unsubstantiated thought process. It's the same ploy as intolerant people saying an unwillingness to tolerate their intolerance means you are intolerant too.
I think a big part of it is that many theists believe that atheists feel they have answered all of life's questions naturally, but what they don't understand is that we are just unwilling to use a lack of knowledge and understanding as a stepping stone for an argument for god. How that takes faith is beyond me.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
