RE: Agnostic Atheism? Your opinions..
December 16, 2011 at 10:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2011 at 10:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
All that matters is that you are comfortable with the language you use. I wouldn't worry too much about what I respect or what I don't. You believe this or that, that's fine. There's nothing in your beliefs (however modified) that are undeniable, un-dismissable, or immune to criticism, none of which have anything to do with respect. Here you are at AF. Claim that any sort of god whatsoever exists and someone will crop up to remind you that you have no evidence. That the language you choose is potentially misleading, or that the concept itself is absolutely bankrupt of explanatory power, adding a name to things which have already been named. The pantheists god is no god at all. It's an argument or position assumed to maintain a good fuzzy feeling of warmth which stands directly in the face of anything observed, relying only on what remains unobserved. A clever redefinition of "natural" that adds nothing to our understanding of nature or "god", only a tool for the purposes I just described. Just my two cents.
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