(June 10, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(June 9, 2014 at 8:05 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I've met a few who make the positive assertion of the non-existence of god(s). They strike me as being as evangelical as the faithful.
Most atheists I've met are the agnostic variety. I am myself in that group.
I don't know a definition of God that isn't either a completely meaningless word salad of definitions or that invokes some variety of religious dogmas. And yes, I am 99.9% certain THAT being doesn't exist, just as I am certain that Santa Clause, garden faeries, and demonic spirits are wholly fabricated products of a malfunctioning human imagination.
I hear you. I am comfortable saying that the Christian conception of god cannot exist, because of its logical contradictions. Other conceptions of god, well, I don't believe them, but I can't say I know they don't exist. I'm fine going with Sagan's dictum: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" and leaving it at that.
