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Should Atheism proper include scepticism?
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RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism?
Really Truthworthy? Because the conversation i've read points to you just not getting it.

Atheism can be skeptical (i withhold judgement of God until proven true or false) or unskeptical (I already know God does not exist), throughout the discussion Adrian has repeatedly stated his preference of the former position and i fail to see how he could have made it much clearer.

As for the issue of being able to claim knowledge on the non-existence of God, i hold the position that it is by definition impossible to disprove an unfalsifiable hypothesis, which the god hypothesis is, therefore claiming proof of the non-existence of God is an unreasonable position to take - the better position is that there is currently no compelling evidence empirical or otherwise to take seriously the idea of an immaterial, infinite, infallible intelligence outside of space and time who caused the universe to exist and thus it is rather moronic to organise your life around such an idea, let alone suppose it impregnated a virgin that gave birth to it's self so it could later sacrifice a weekend to save us from sin.
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Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by TruthWorthy - December 28, 2009 at 9:33 pm
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by leo-rcc - December 29, 2009 at 5:04 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by leo-rcc - December 29, 2009 at 5:18 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by leo-rcc - December 29, 2009 at 5:49 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Tiberius - December 29, 2009 at 6:01 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by leo-rcc - December 29, 2009 at 7:20 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by leo-rcc - December 29, 2009 at 6:56 pm
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Tiberius - December 29, 2009 at 7:24 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by padraic - December 29, 2009 at 7:12 pm
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Tiberius - December 29, 2009 at 11:09 pm
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by TruthWorthy - December 29, 2009 at 11:55 pm
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Tiberius - December 30, 2009 at 12:08 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by TruthWorthy - December 30, 2009 at 12:17 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Tiberius - December 30, 2009 at 12:27 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by theVOID - December 30, 2009 at 1:31 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by theVOID - December 30, 2009 at 4:27 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by theVOID - December 30, 2009 at 6:16 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Violet - December 30, 2009 at 5:39 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Violet - December 30, 2009 at 6:13 am
RE: Should Atheism proper include scepticism? - by Tiberius - December 30, 2009 at 10:18 am

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