RE: Books regarding atheism
November 21, 2019 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2019 at 6:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I strongly doubt that a brain-dead person is having a conversation with anyone, but go ahead, tell us how you feel, lol.
Here again we see the insistence on a false dichotomy that swirls around avoiding some negative consequence. People either agree with your trivially false position,and are vry smrt prsns..or they don't, and they're dumb. If you think it;s smarter, somehow, to be an atheist because you've categorically assessed all god claims which you can possess knowledge of, then and only then, with enough knowledge of the workings of your own mind to exclude other possibilities.... deciding upon that rational basis that there are no gods or you don't believe those claims, then fine.
Good luck finding one of those atheists, though.
Me, I just hear the stories and don't believe them. Never have. I heard the stories and knew about the stories long before I knew anything about the scientific method or the big bang model or geology. I never needed to compare the two to know what I did or didn't believe, and it would be a neat trick if I didn't believe them based on some commitment to things I didn't know about...wouldn't you agree? The switch is simply in the off position, lol. That, and only that, is what accounts for my being an atheist...because that's all the term refers to in the first place.
I do, ofc, have positions on and commitments to a wide range of things - for example truth and accuracy, and it's from that wide range of positions and commitments that I can opine on how much of a bad faith suggestion you made in response to a request for books on atheism. The authors book, and your position, has absolutely nothing to do with atheism, but..rather...all those positions and people which the two of you detest and would write a polemic about.
Here again we see the insistence on a false dichotomy that swirls around avoiding some negative consequence. People either agree with your trivially false position,and are vry smrt prsns..or they don't, and they're dumb. If you think it;s smarter, somehow, to be an atheist because you've categorically assessed all god claims which you can possess knowledge of, then and only then, with enough knowledge of the workings of your own mind to exclude other possibilities.... deciding upon that rational basis that there are no gods or you don't believe those claims, then fine.
Good luck finding one of those atheists, though.
Me, I just hear the stories and don't believe them. Never have. I heard the stories and knew about the stories long before I knew anything about the scientific method or the big bang model or geology. I never needed to compare the two to know what I did or didn't believe, and it would be a neat trick if I didn't believe them based on some commitment to things I didn't know about...wouldn't you agree? The switch is simply in the off position, lol. That, and only that, is what accounts for my being an atheist...because that's all the term refers to in the first place.
I do, ofc, have positions on and commitments to a wide range of things - for example truth and accuracy, and it's from that wide range of positions and commitments that I can opine on how much of a bad faith suggestion you made in response to a request for books on atheism. The authors book, and your position, has absolutely nothing to do with atheism, but..rather...all those positions and people which the two of you detest and would write a polemic about.
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