(June 1, 2021 at 9:42 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:Yeah my apologies for that "word wall", I kinda got off on the wrong foot.(June 1, 2021 at 8:12 am)johndoe122931 Wrote: Good morning Neo-Scholastic,
Yes, I understand that there are many different reasons as to why one chooses to become an atheist. My question is more specifically why did you personally become an athesit?
I used to consider myself an existentialist atheist up until I was born again in the 1990's. I did not reply directly to your OP because I was a little put off by the word wall.
My personal opinion, as of late, is that intellectually motivated athiesm is at least in part motivated by a commitment to evidentialism, i.e. the belief that only beliefs supported by empirical evidence are rational. Of course there is no evidence for this position, making it self-referentially incoherent, but it is a position that finds plenty of expression here.
So, you say you were born again in the 1990s. Are you a Christian or does that have some other type of atheistic meaning that I missed?