RE: Can Atheists Worship/love the Divine? Yes.
February 15, 2012 at 7:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2012 at 7:50 pm by Mystic.)
(February 15, 2012 at 7:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(February 15, 2012 at 7:35 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Well as I explained, we can believe Socrates is a honorable person worthy of high veneration, whether we know he actually existed or not.
You can, if you're the sort of person who doesn't make much of a distinction between what you believe and what you know.
Some of us are a bit more particular in that regard.
That doesn't have to do with anything.
Suppose I didn't believe Socrates exists. I don't believe he didn't exist either. I don't believe either way. Yet when it comes to his description, I honor "Socrates" - not knowing or believing he exists or doesn't exist.
In fact, even if I believed he was a fictional character, and turns out he exists, and the descriptions were accurate, then I would be honoring that person, if I found his description to be honorable and worthy of veneration.
It doesn't have anything to do with whether you value what you know as opposed to what you believe.
We can honor fictional characters, and if turns out their real, then we have honored real characters.
Supposed we watched a movie that was based on a real story and we didn't know it was based on a true story, and we thought it was fictional. If we honor the main character, we are honoring the real person in the true story as well.
