RE: Why I'm not an Atheist and believe in what I believe.
June 8, 2012 at 9:44 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2012 at 9:48 pm by Mystic.)
Padraic, I respect you taking an agnostic position but I can't say I agree with it as a logical stance.
As far as being agnostic to my position, it's either:
(1) There exists an absolute morality and we have a link to that morality and relationship to it, and hence can know definite moral facts as true.
(2) There doesn't exist an absolute morality and we have no relationship to it and we don't know moral facts.
But if (1), then surely there is a way for you to know, since you been bestowed that knowledge as well. So you just have to sincerely ask yourself if you have that knowledge.
The same is true of knowledge of God. It's not like I would be special to have that knowledge while you wouldn't. But this question can be hard. A Muslim might state he doesn't know if killing apostates is wrong so follows hadiths and scholars verdict on that, but at the same time, I feel he does know. He knows deep inside. Others know more then deep inside, they know it all through their soul and being, nothing hiding.
So from my position, all I can do is advice reflection, what you deep down inside know.
I am not proving it either way but you can prove to yourself one of these are true. If we have no knowledge of moral facts, it would be obvious as well, would it not? If we had no intuitive knowledge of God, that would be obvious as well, would it not?
Any ways, this thread was originally to answer people's questions about why I believe what I believe.
As far as being agnostic to my position, it's either:
(1) There exists an absolute morality and we have a link to that morality and relationship to it, and hence can know definite moral facts as true.
(2) There doesn't exist an absolute morality and we have no relationship to it and we don't know moral facts.
But if (1), then surely there is a way for you to know, since you been bestowed that knowledge as well. So you just have to sincerely ask yourself if you have that knowledge.
The same is true of knowledge of God. It's not like I would be special to have that knowledge while you wouldn't. But this question can be hard. A Muslim might state he doesn't know if killing apostates is wrong so follows hadiths and scholars verdict on that, but at the same time, I feel he does know. He knows deep inside. Others know more then deep inside, they know it all through their soul and being, nothing hiding.
So from my position, all I can do is advice reflection, what you deep down inside know.
I am not proving it either way but you can prove to yourself one of these are true. If we have no knowledge of moral facts, it would be obvious as well, would it not? If we had no intuitive knowledge of God, that would be obvious as well, would it not?
Any ways, this thread was originally to answer people's questions about why I believe what I believe.
