(June 19, 2012 at 6:29 pm)Tempus Wrote:(June 19, 2012 at 2:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote: What the theist calls "mystical" the atheist merely says "I have a sense of awe of the natural world but don't insert woo where knowledge currently lacks".
The only thing that can be inferred about an atheist is a non-belief in gods. Anything else would be conflating it with other positions.
(June 19, 2012 at 5:10 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Which is why I get down on labels, even those minorities claim.
And yet you use the labels theism and atheism.
Thank you, but please explain to me how I am different than my detractors? I don't think humans should pretend that labels don't exist or should not exist. They will regardless of the wishes of the atheist or theist.
This false tactic of assuming that I am merely a polar opposite of my theist counterparts is absurd and false. I have no desire to force the world to conform to my label or politics. I do have a desire for challenge without fear which is what both the politically correct theist and atheist demand and what the religious zealot of all labels masturbates over.
If you and I shit and pee and fart, and every human of every label does, it isn't a ban on rival labels I am demanding, but a priority shift in that labels, while unavoidable, will never change the fact that we all shit and pee and fart and will die.
