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The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
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RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
genkaus, prove to me using your methods that there is some absolute way in which a tree can be differentiated from the air that it lives in, and that people should accept that concept of a tree as opposed to seeing a tree as being some common unity of things understood through physical and chemical relations and biological order, that a tree based on the way that the unity of biological, and chemical elements has a kind of unity to it that can be described such that a tree has an end that is different from the physical, chemical and biological relations between air and a dead patch of dirt.

I think what you will prove is that I am an idiot because I can't see that your opinion of a tree is different from appreciating what a tree is. In religious circles, that is considered pride, but if you accept the epistemology and ethics of someone like Nietzsche I suppose you could redefine pride to be a virtue that allows you to have absolute knowledge of a subjective world.

I would still call it pride though.


Religious belief is not phenomenological, although experience plays a role in grounding religious belief. It is certainly not limited to that pathetically insufficient method.

You are stuck in a skeptical worldview, and the only way to elevate yourself above it is to artificially elevate your opinions. That is what you call "reason" and "evidence".
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RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith - by jstrodel - March 10, 2013 at 3:37 pm

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