(July 3, 2012 at 6:57 pm)Selliedjoup Wrote: Not at all. I don't believe or disbelieve, as I have no reason to justify either. Can I say I 50% believe and 50% disbelieve?
Disbelief is inherent with lack of evidence. You have got to be kidding me.
There is no way you are serious. I don't believe you to be real.
You either believe --> Affirmative position
Believe the inverse, or believe that x is untrue --> Affirmative position
Or disbelieve --> Neutral position.
You have to be one. If you aren't... you exist outside logic.
That's enough to qualify you as a theist, in my opinion.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
