RE: Informing people there is no god.
March 19, 2014 at 6:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 6:19 pm by tor.)
(March 19, 2014 at 6:17 pm)Bittersmart Wrote:(March 19, 2014 at 6:09 pm)tor Wrote: I don't say it's ridiculous I just inform them that there is no god. Who knows maybe they don't know. Just telling people the truth. Nothing special or offensive. Maybe they didn't know.
Yes, but how do you know for a fact there is nothing there? I don't. I lack the belief that there is anything there because there is no evidence, but I don't pretend that I know for sure. I think maybe a better thing to say would be "There is probably no god, so don't worry about it." But I still wouldn't say that, because it's obnoxious to people. No one wants to hear "God doesn't exist" after they ask their friends to pray for their sick aunt, or whatever. They don't fucking care, and it just reinforces the notion that atheists are smarmy dicks.
I don't need to know for sure there is no ninja turtles to say they don't exist. If we take it to your extreme we have to be agnostic about everything.
And I don't talk to people about god on funerals.
