RE: "I considered myself atheist, but I still talked to god"
June 3, 2013 at 10:48 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2013 at 10:52 pm by ReasonableRuben.)
(June 3, 2013 at 10:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote: ? Rueben.......a person who talks to god - is going to have a hard time explaining that conversation - what with being an atheist, are they not?
Is it really that hard to believe that a person might be so religiously indoctrinated that they might still say the Lord's prayer every morning, out of simple habit,(and take this to mean "talking to God" in a colloquial sense) whilst at the same time lacking the belief that the God, which they previously had believed to exist and to whom the prayer is addressed, actually exists?
In any case, it certainly is not the case, at least by any rule of logic, that because person P prays, person P is necessarily an atheist.
"I know what you are thinking about,' said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.'
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." ~Tweedledum and Tweedledee discussing the finer points of logic
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." ~Tweedledum and Tweedledee discussing the finer points of logic
