RE: Has atheism made you different?
April 25, 2013 at 8:39 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 8:55 pm by Dawud.)
(April 25, 2013 at 7:17 pm)Tonus Wrote:(April 25, 2013 at 5:52 pm)Dawud Wrote: Awareness of this absence of belief can motivate...
Curiously, this idea is probably only applied with regards to belief in god. If you do not believe in space aliens, does your awareness of that lack of belief motivate you in any way? Unicorns? Martians? Talking earthworms? There are a great many things that you probably do not believe exists. What does this awareness motivate you to do?
My agnosticism motivates me to tell you that I think there probably aren't any of these things.
(April 25, 2013 at 7:46 pm)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote:(April 25, 2013 at 5:52 pm)Dawud Wrote: Awareness of this absence of belief can motivate...
Surely you believe you have an absence of belief regarding God NonyMouse?
Or are you unsure and think you might believe?
You believe you are agnostic?
I fit the definition of atheist. That is not a belief but a fact. That is knowledge not belief.
OK NonyMouse - I was only assuming you believe what you know...
Do you believe you are agnostic?
I worry you are just using different meanings of common words now. You are better than that!
Just admit that knowing you are agnostic can affect your behaviour - if you are aware you are agnostic then you obviously believe you are agnostic to some degree (using the definition of believe as holding something to be true). This is self knowledge and can lead to behaviour!
I see a kind of silly argument that is consistent:
"Atheism is nothing physical so cannot effect you". I'll give you that if you really want
But as soon as someone considers the self to be agnostic towards God - they then have self knowledge and its just head in the sand stuff to pretend that this self knowledge has no effect on people. I think people just want to pretend that an identity as "an atheist" cannot affect someone....
It clearly can... And this doesn't undermine atheism whatsoever!
Can we agree to this??
Someone who considers them self "atheist" can be motivated by this identification!
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