(September 19, 2012 at 4:14 pm)Ryantology Wrote: What I'm basically asking is, how does one disbelieve in gods while accepting other forms of the supernatural as potentially valid phenomena? My atheism is based on the idea that no credible evidence exists to suggest that any supernatural being has ever been recorded to exist, nor any supernatural phenomena has ever happened. I disbelieve in gods simply because they are included under that classification.
TaraJo Wrote:Even that isn't entirely accurate; people can blindly believe there is no God simply because that's how they were raised. Skepticism is about questioning everything and if you just blindly accept that God is bullshit without questioning it, you aren't really skeptic. I've always said, I'd rather have a discussion with an intelligent theist who has put intelligent thought into their beliefs than an atheist who is just blindly following what his parents told him to believe and doesn't know why he's an atheist.
The only way that someone could believe in the supernatural and not god would be if their lack of belief in god was not due to a lack of evidence for his existence, but because they were raised atheist without developing critical thinking skills as to why it is illogical to believe in god. I think these cases would be rare, but I don't know for sure.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
