(March 2, 2019 at 7:43 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Belaqua Wrote:
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.
This is something I tried, multiple times, to get across to Belaqua in saying that "I won't pretend to know what 'every single adult atheist' thinks." But they did not accept this as an answer and kept trying to hammer the point home about what, supposedly, "every single adult atheist" thinks.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.