RE: Has atheism made you different?
April 22, 2013 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2013 at 5:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 22, 2013 at 5:34 pm)Dawud Wrote: Well if I said there was a teapot flying around in the debris of space you would not be compelled to believe me (there is no evidence) - but to believe that there is no teapot would be to have belief.No I wouldn't, but I'm notoriously finicky about the word belief - and the way you'll use it leads me to state that I have no beliefs.
Quote: Like if there was an agnostic regarding the teapot who said "it doesn't matter it doesn't affect me!" - they wouldn't believe either way. But if you said to them "no - there is no teapot" that would be quite different - they could believe your statement or not: it is a claim about the way the universe is...Gnosis is not about belief, it's about knowledge. Switching between the two shoots your non-point in the foot. For the record, I'm not an atheist or an agnostic with regards to your god, or space teapots.
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