RE: Agnosticism
January 16, 2014 at 11:35 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2014 at 11:43 am by Whateverist.)
(January 16, 2014 at 9:09 am)Sejanus Wrote: So what you're saying is agnostics don't think silly things deserve their existence to be validated, because they're silly. The problem with this is that 'silliness' is subjective. Exhibit A: Christianity
Pretty much. But really I think all the products of our imagination are better understood by avenues other than physics or philosophy. Better to approach them as you would a novel, a poem or a painting. What do they mean? It isn't a matter of science.
Upon further reflection I think calling it "silly stuff" is really more dismissive than I feel about it. It is only from the perspective of science that religion is silly stuff, but then again so is art. Of course, what rankles the anti-theist is the claims made by fundamentalist theists. Now those truly are stupid and not just silly, and given their prevalence anything but benign.
