(April 3, 2019 at 11:22 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Conversely, mine has been. I started out as an agnostic atheist for no discernible reason. I became a gnostic atheist much later, for reasons, and my mind is no longer open to the possibility of gods being anything other than fiction.
My reasons didn't alter my atheism, I was an atheist before and after - so they couldn't really be said to be the cause of my atheism. They altered my confidence in a knowledge statement. Sometimes, as unsatisfying as it may be, the answer to the question "but why are you like that" really is, "IDK, just the way I am". An irreducible fact.
How do you become an atheist for no reason at all? Were you simply not raised with religion? I mean, what would you have said to someone who asked you why you didn’t believe in god back your agnostic atheist days?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
