RE: Agnostic Atheism? Your opinions..
December 15, 2011 at 2:59 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2011 at 3:00 am by dtango.)
(December 15, 2011 at 12:01 am)whateverist Wrote: You know that God is a joke. You know that god does not exist. Like the Theists you claim to know much more than I know..
I know more than you know because I have studied the subject in question more than you have. I know how the idea of the existence of a God was produced and how it had evolved.
In order for you to realize that without the proper information one may not have a proper idea of what “gods” or “God” means, I will cite a passage from the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts and I will ask you to comment on it:
The opening passage of Spell 173 reads:
NOT TO EAT FAECES AND NOT O DRINK URINE IN THE PLACE OF THE GODS.
What I doubly detest, I will not eat. Faeces is my detestation, and I will not eat it. Filth shall not enter into this mouth of mine, and |I will not eat it with my mouth, I will not touch it with my finger, I will not tread on it with my toes, because I will not eat faeces for you (the gods are meant, see below), I will not drink urine for you, I will not go upside down for you, I will not accept this “mat of Shesmetet”(?) for you; because I will not eat for you this filth which issued from the hinder parts of Osiris.
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“Eat this excrement which issued from the hinder parts of Osiris; what (else) can you live on?” say these gods to me!
Egyptians were the most intelligent people of the ancient world, don’t forget.
(December 15, 2011 at 12:01 am)whateverist Wrote: Like them you offer little more than "it's obvious". In my book, ridiculing the opposing view point doesn't count as an argument. Also like the Theists, you have absolute certainty in your beliefs. It will be hard for 7th degree atheists or 1st degree theists to learn and grow if they are no longer entertaining new ideas. All that certainty can really get in the way..
My certainty is based on a new idea which is the product of study. Are you interested in new ideas?