RE: Gnostic Atheism? WTF?
June 10, 2014 at 9:38 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2014 at 9:40 am by DeistPaladin.)
(June 10, 2014 at 9:30 am)ThePinsir Wrote: So, I THINK, it is with Gods (especially Yahweh). We can trace the history of this fictional being back to the pantheon of the ancient Canaanites, just like tracing back to the earliest Superman comics.
Certainly if we're specific about which god. Yahweh has too many internal contradictions to exist. The book that claims his existence is too discredited. I am a gnostic atheist with regards to Yahweh as described in the Bible.
(June 10, 2014 at 8:57 am)RobbyPants Wrote: I've met people who claim to believe God doesn't exist, but if I talk to them long enough, I find they were just making too strong of a claim initially and they believe it's non-falsifiable.
So the claim "there is no god" is simply a reaction to living in a society saturated by beliefs in Jesus and Yahweh, the same as if we lived in a society that believed in unicorns and that our morality comes from unicorns and if you don't believe in unicorns you're a bad person and...
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist