RE: Question for atheists...
February 19, 2013 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2013 at 2:31 pm by CapnAwesome.)
(February 19, 2013 at 1:19 pm)BeeDeePee Wrote: But you're doing the same literally every day. When you're going to school, you're accepting the ideas of other people; when you're reading, you're accepting the ideas of others; when you're upbringing and educating your children, the're accepting what they were told. You can be atheist, but you can not escape from this.
I have to ask: what is wrong with that? It can be wrong if you accept it by not using critical thinking, if you don't ask and don't doubt... otherwise, it's completely okay.
No, you cannot totally escape using other peoples ideas, but you can filter the good ones from the bad ones. Religions though don't allow a filter, some liberal theologians filter the ideas anyway, but it doesn't make them good or bad. Also the idea that everybody suppresses their critical thinking to some degree is not a good excuse for doing it more. Everybody pays taxes, that doesn't mean I should give my whole paycheck to the government.
Also I think you are mistaken in the idea that God is not a provable or disprovable idea. God is not disprovable, but God is so easily proved. All he would have to do for me to accept his reality is appear. It's a very low standard of proof which he fails to fulfill every single day.
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