RE: Suggestions for atheist framework
February 22, 2012 at 10:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2012 at 11:42 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Andrew:
On reflection,,I'll take you on face value,and assume you are sincere:
An agnostic atheist, I make no claims. I assert only " I do not believe in god(s) due to a lack of credible evidence". My atheism is an effect not a cause.I left the Catholic Church at age 20,after thinking deeply about some the more absurd claims,whose authority comes from the corkscrew logic of some of the more devious church sophists,starting with Augustine and Aquinas. It took me a further 20 years,of questions, formal and informal study before I reached the inevitable conclusion of atheism.IE I simply no longer believed.
Today,I do not have a single cohesive personal philosophy. Instead, I have a rather eclectic mixture of ideas which make sense to me. Formal names for the basis of my world view include: Skepticism, egoism (on several levels) empiricism, materialism,pragmatism and moral relativism.
I am NOT anti theist or anti religion per se. I AM anti organised religion, which I consider parasitic and a boil on the arse of humanity. I have a visceral loathing of and contempt for the Catholic church as an institution. I consider it ruthless, immoral,hidebound,and deeply corrupt ,from the top down.Fortunately the stench does not always reach the parish level.
In brief: I simply see human beings as just another species of apes.(primates) I think ourr sentience gives us delusions of grandeur. That our sense of 'specialness" is an illusion;we are important only to ourselves.That's fine with me. I love life and savour every day,moreso with each passing year. I have an insatiable curiosity and am fascinated by the world around me:However it's the 'what' rather than the 'why' which intrigues me. So far I have never seen any evidence that there is any such thing as a 'why' in any philosophical sense of the word.
On reflection,,I'll take you on face value,and assume you are sincere:
An agnostic atheist, I make no claims. I assert only " I do not believe in god(s) due to a lack of credible evidence". My atheism is an effect not a cause.I left the Catholic Church at age 20,after thinking deeply about some the more absurd claims,whose authority comes from the corkscrew logic of some of the more devious church sophists,starting with Augustine and Aquinas. It took me a further 20 years,of questions, formal and informal study before I reached the inevitable conclusion of atheism.IE I simply no longer believed.
Today,I do not have a single cohesive personal philosophy. Instead, I have a rather eclectic mixture of ideas which make sense to me. Formal names for the basis of my world view include: Skepticism, egoism (on several levels) empiricism, materialism,pragmatism and moral relativism.
I am NOT anti theist or anti religion per se. I AM anti organised religion, which I consider parasitic and a boil on the arse of humanity. I have a visceral loathing of and contempt for the Catholic church as an institution. I consider it ruthless, immoral,hidebound,and deeply corrupt ,from the top down.Fortunately the stench does not always reach the parish level.
In brief: I simply see human beings as just another species of apes.(primates) I think ourr sentience gives us delusions of grandeur. That our sense of 'specialness" is an illusion;we are important only to ourselves.That's fine with me. I love life and savour every day,moreso with each passing year. I have an insatiable curiosity and am fascinated by the world around me:However it's the 'what' rather than the 'why' which intrigues me. So far I have never seen any evidence that there is any such thing as a 'why' in any philosophical sense of the word.
