RE: How atheist are you
December 1, 2013 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2013 at 10:00 pm by Angrboda.)
(November 15, 2013 at 10:06 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I think if you're talking with a theist the Dawkins scale can be helpful in gauging the degree to which your worldviews differ. If the Atheist is a 7 and the Theist is a 1, the conversation isn't going to go anywhere....
Not at all true. I'm a 1 who gets along fine with 7s.
Which gets back to the main flaw with the scale, it is primarily a scale of Western religion related to Judeo-Christian-Muslim monotheism. I'm a Hindu (mono) theist, yet don't really belong on this scale. Nor do Buddhists. Or Shinto. Or all the varieties of Taoist. Or....
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