(June 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm)Inigo Wrote: I'm not sure this is a conversion story as such, and anyway it goes in the wrong direction. So, if anything, I am here to see if anyone can show me the error of my ways so that I can go back to atheism.
I was brought up an atheist and would have described myself as such until very recently. However, I no longer have any great confidence in the truth of atheism. This is not due to any kind of religious experience. Rather, it is entirely due to reflection on the nature of morality and reason. I now take seriously that both may presuppose a god of some sort. Not, note, a Judaeo Christian god. Just a powerful supernatural agency.
And so I am here to see if I am misguided in some way. I have no sympathies with any religious groups or beliefs - indeed, I take all religions to be just so much mumbo jumbo. And I have no time for those who believe in a god on the basis of faith.
Quote:Rather, it is entirely due to reflection on the nature of morality and reason.
Morality does not define truth, only evidence does. In human evolution humans display both compassion and cruelty, both good and bad behavior. That has never changed and never will change.
Hypocrisy in claiming morals only shows hypocrisy, it does not negate a position. The only good CORE reason to hold a position is evidence, nothing else.
