(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.
I dropped the agnostic bit years ago, 'it cannot be known if god exists'. Of course it can, he could show up and do some god stuff. A few thousand years ago he was creating universe's and turning fish into bread, or whatever the fuck it was but now he appears on slices of toast and dogs arses. The incredible shrinking god.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.