I think Dawud can't read...
Knowledge and belief .... meh, you opened another thread on those two... instead of using the search function and realizing it's been done to death!
You can have no knowledge about god, the entity, because it seems to be hiding from our scrutiny.
Given this, I cannot believe you when you claim that god is this or that, or that it does this or that. I have no way to verify it, nor do you... how can you distinguish that from "it's all in your head"?
You can't.
So, I turn your question around: does your behavior change when you become a believer in the existence of a deity (aka, a theist)?
If you're simply deist, probably not.
If you end up following some preexisting religion, probably yes...
The default position of the human being is atheist, provided no one tells me about a god, I never acquire that concept and remain atheist.
When someone provides me with the concept of a god, I can either accept it or not, usually, based on the degree of trust I hold towards the person which provided me with this new concept.
If you're religious and manage to go back to atheist, you then change your behavior back to the default, no religious rules to uphold.
Would you kill for that notion of a non-existing entity?
Perhaps, if a particular theist badgered me too much, threatened my physical integrity, or my family's.... but then, the kill wouldn't have been for atheism, but for peace...
Apart from this particular case of idiocy from theists, I can't imagine how such a desire to kill another human being would stem from the fact that you're do not accept the claim that a god exists.... whatever a god is... by the way, you haven't defined what you understand as god yet, have you?
(April 23, 2013 at 6:34 pm)Dawud Wrote: Please read again to understand my question pocaracas.It is about belief!
It is about if knowledge that there is no such thing as God can lead to someone to do something...
Knowledge and belief .... meh, you opened another thread on those two... instead of using the search function and realizing it's been done to death!
You can have no knowledge about god, the entity, because it seems to be hiding from our scrutiny.
Given this, I cannot believe you when you claim that god is this or that, or that it does this or that. I have no way to verify it, nor do you... how can you distinguish that from "it's all in your head"?
You can't.
So, I turn your question around: does your behavior change when you become a believer in the existence of a deity (aka, a theist)?
If you're simply deist, probably not.
If you end up following some preexisting religion, probably yes...
The default position of the human being is atheist, provided no one tells me about a god, I never acquire that concept and remain atheist.
When someone provides me with the concept of a god, I can either accept it or not, usually, based on the degree of trust I hold towards the person which provided me with this new concept.
If you're religious and manage to go back to atheist, you then change your behavior back to the default, no religious rules to uphold.
Would you kill for that notion of a non-existing entity?
Perhaps, if a particular theist badgered me too much, threatened my physical integrity, or my family's.... but then, the kill wouldn't have been for atheism, but for peace...
Apart from this particular case of idiocy from theists, I can't imagine how such a desire to kill another human being would stem from the fact that you're do not accept the claim that a god exists.... whatever a god is... by the way, you haven't defined what you understand as god yet, have you?
