RE: Ignosticism?
September 4, 2013 at 5:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2013 at 5:29 am by Simsim.)
Of course, Whateverist, every believer has his own conception of God which is compatible with his mind and culture. (One day I had my own one ) But at all cases and under all conceptions you still have one comprehensive state which is "a certain belief in a creator" no matter what your conception of the creator or creation is.
Yes. This is, in my opinion, the best of what can be said about an atheist and I think it is the best definition of atheism: The lack of faith for the lack of evidence and for the lack of the emotional state which makes you faithful. Thus you find that all terms like agnosticism, apatheism, "free thinking" and ignosticism .. etc are equivalent to atheism. It is just all about how to tell others about it and how to coexist with them through it. For me I don't say I am atheist in my country but I use words such as: skeptic, rational, secular, questioning and inquisitive Muslim just because I live in a very religious society taking into account that prompting people to think rationally and critically is the aim not to tell them to be atheists.
(September 3, 2013 at 7:04 pm)whateverist Wrote: Perhaps gods are intrapersonal phenomena like dreams, obsessions and the like. They may be real for some but non-existent for others. I can't report any gods active in my internal life but I don't find that conclusive evidence for negating what others may experience. But gods as objective, interpersonally verifiable beings have not been produced so far as I know, and no first hand testimony can conclusively be shown to be based on objective rather than subjective experience. So until I have my own hallucination, I'll hang out with the skeptically inclined.
Yes. This is, in my opinion, the best of what can be said about an atheist and I think it is the best definition of atheism: The lack of faith for the lack of evidence and for the lack of the emotional state which makes you faithful. Thus you find that all terms like agnosticism, apatheism, "free thinking" and ignosticism .. etc are equivalent to atheism. It is just all about how to tell others about it and how to coexist with them through it. For me I don't say I am atheist in my country but I use words such as: skeptic, rational, secular, questioning and inquisitive Muslim just because I live in a very religious society taking into account that prompting people to think rationally and critically is the aim not to tell them to be atheists.
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