RE: Gnostic Atheism? WTF?
June 11, 2014 at 3:45 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2014 at 3:51 am by Ryantology.)
They insist we can't have knowledge without 100% certainty, while saying they have 100% certainty but nobody can 'prove' the supernatural.
If certainty is what matters, we can have it on the same level as we have certainty about leprechauns and unicorns (or, as they do about all competing gods and myths and fables). Is 100% certainty worth anything if that certainty is backed exclusively by unjustified assertions? Is that a stronger position than being 99%, or 50% or even 1% certain god doesn't exist because not one iota of evidence of any god has been found throughout human history, and every single event attributed to a god that can be tested ends up being explained fully by natural causes? It's not as if theists have just slipped up a little here and there. It's not as if most of what they say is demonstrably true and we're trying to make a negative claim based on technicalities or mistakes. They never get anything right. They prove none of what they claim. The entire contents of every single god claim ever, in human history, has produced absolutely 110% jack shit.
If I say that there is no god, and every single effort of theirs to the contrary, ever, no matter who tries, no matter how clever they are, ends up producing zilch, that may not make me right, but it means that by all objective measure, I am infinitely closer to being right then they are. I don't need 100% certainty. I'm happy with 99.999999999999999999999999999999999%.
A 'gnostic theist' is merely two words that can better be replaced with just one: 'liar'.
And I'll repudiate every word I've ever typed on this forum if even one of them proves a single god claim.
If certainty is what matters, we can have it on the same level as we have certainty about leprechauns and unicorns (or, as they do about all competing gods and myths and fables). Is 100% certainty worth anything if that certainty is backed exclusively by unjustified assertions? Is that a stronger position than being 99%, or 50% or even 1% certain god doesn't exist because not one iota of evidence of any god has been found throughout human history, and every single event attributed to a god that can be tested ends up being explained fully by natural causes? It's not as if theists have just slipped up a little here and there. It's not as if most of what they say is demonstrably true and we're trying to make a negative claim based on technicalities or mistakes. They never get anything right. They prove none of what they claim. The entire contents of every single god claim ever, in human history, has produced absolutely 110% jack shit.
If I say that there is no god, and every single effort of theirs to the contrary, ever, no matter who tries, no matter how clever they are, ends up producing zilch, that may not make me right, but it means that by all objective measure, I am infinitely closer to being right then they are. I don't need 100% certainty. I'm happy with 99.999999999999999999999999999999999%.
A 'gnostic theist' is merely two words that can better be replaced with just one: 'liar'.
And I'll repudiate every word I've ever typed on this forum if even one of them proves a single god claim.
