Belaqua Wrote:
That's actually precisely false.
Every atheist in the world has a different opinion on the truth claims and value of the concept of a "god" and religions.
Joseph Campbell, (an atheist) thought that every religion was true in it's own way ... although not literally true.
I happen to think many arguments for a god may be persuasive, (obviously they are, as many buy into them ...
and many who find they are not ultimately finally persuasive, find them useful, secondary to their result, ... "the ends justify the means") ... so yeah,
your generalization is false.
Quote:But every single adult atheist in the world believes exactly the same thing: that claims for the existence of god are unpersuasive.
That's actually precisely false.
Every atheist in the world has a different opinion on the truth claims and value of the concept of a "god" and religions.
Joseph Campbell, (an atheist) thought that every religion was true in it's own way ... although not literally true.
I happen to think many arguments for a god may be persuasive, (obviously they are, as many buy into them ...
and many who find they are not ultimately finally persuasive, find them useful, secondary to their result, ... "the ends justify the means") ... so yeah,
your generalization is false.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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