RE: Why not deism?
September 15, 2019 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2019 at 4:12 pm by Inqwizitor.)
[How do I quote just the poster's text, without quoting mine along with it?]
If we have no working definition of what a god is, then what does atheism actually mean?
The reason for existence is a fascinating idea worth discussing, at least to me (and billions of other people, evidently). That there simply is no reason or that the question is not worth discussing is not any more convincing than religious ideas.
Whether or not there "has" to be something or not is the crux of many a metaphysical debate. Simply asserting one way or the other is one way of dealing with that; but there is no compelling reason to agree.
If we have no working definition of what a god is, then what does atheism actually mean?
The reason for existence is a fascinating idea worth discussing, at least to me (and billions of other people, evidently). That there simply is no reason or that the question is not worth discussing is not any more convincing than religious ideas.
Whether or not there "has" to be something or not is the crux of many a metaphysical debate. Simply asserting one way or the other is one way of dealing with that; but there is no compelling reason to agree.
