RE: Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.
January 24, 2013 at 1:31 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2013 at 1:35 am by Violet.)
(January 23, 2013 at 10:04 pm)TromboneAtheist Wrote: In my opinion, a Theist is irrational. Feel free to disagree, that's just what I think.
Well then: what makes them irrational? What *is* "rationality"?
I don't agree or disagree... I hold my position and ask others why they hold theirs. If I find an answer lacking, I inquire further.
(January 23, 2013 at 10:15 pm)Gilgamesh Wrote: They believe something without reason/evidence. No one ever became a theist through reason. It has everything to do with emotion.
Even if ones' reason for believing a thing is a book: there is still a reason for their belief(s). Even if ones' evidence in the truth of a thing is a book: there is still evidence, thusly are they confident.
What does belief have to do with emotion? 0.o I believe oranges are in my refrigerator downstairs... but I don't have to be in an emotional state to think that. Why would this be so for a belief in a "daddy in the sky"?
I find it unlikely that nobody has ever become a theist through reasoning... indeed: I notice that a great many theists are so as a result of their (occasionally sketchy) reasoning
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
