RE: Some religions are secular- Atheists should oppose these too
September 19, 2012 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2012 at 5:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 19, 2012 at 2:43 pm)apophenia Wrote: No, the skeptical position would be to conclude that it is unproven and unknown. Concluding something is a fiction requires support of that proposition specifically. Skepticism is the withholding of belief in the absence of sufficient justification for belief.
Hehehe, I missed this one. The narrative coming from a book which contains magical happenings that can be found nowhere we care to look in the world outside of this book (and not limited to the contents of this particular book in any way on that count) whilst being wholly consistent with other narratives of magical happenings and occurrences, whilst also providing specific testable claims with regards to archaeology and a myriad of other testable fields which have been demonstrably shown to be empty........ I think, pretty firmly establishes that in this case fiction-is-fiction (regardless of whether or not said fiction is supernatural)...lol.
I do not feel compelled or obliged to withhold judgement on vapid mythologies, personally, but that's obviously just how I handle things.
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