RE: Atheism is not a belief!!
April 25, 2013 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 5:39 pm by Dawud.)
To say that you can never know if there is God or not is a belief about the nature of the world.
If you truly are open either way then make sure you don't fall into this trap too!
I do maintain that belief or knowledge about agnosticism regarding a subject can motivate behaviour.
My knowledge that I don't know about a topic for an exam can motivate me to study...
The knowledge that a person knows not either way about God can also influence someone too... e.g. I think that I will find out more or - I will explain to someone why I have no knowledge. A concrete example of this is Dawkins book God delusion - he was aware of his agnosticism and he chose to explain this.
It seems obvious and outside of this forum I'm sure people could accept this but there seems to be a suspicion by some that admitting the above is falling into some evil plan I have...
I don't think this undermines atheism - just undermines this idea that someone agnostic cannot be motivated by their agnosticism or their awareness of it....
If you truly are open either way then make sure you don't fall into this trap too!
I do maintain that belief or knowledge about agnosticism regarding a subject can motivate behaviour.
My knowledge that I don't know about a topic for an exam can motivate me to study...
The knowledge that a person knows not either way about God can also influence someone too... e.g. I think that I will find out more or - I will explain to someone why I have no knowledge. A concrete example of this is Dawkins book God delusion - he was aware of his agnosticism and he chose to explain this.
It seems obvious and outside of this forum I'm sure people could accept this but there seems to be a suspicion by some that admitting the above is falling into some evil plan I have...
I don't think this undermines atheism - just undermines this idea that someone agnostic cannot be motivated by their agnosticism or their awareness of it....
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