RE: Can Someone be Simply "An Agnostic?"
June 26, 2014 at 4:30 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2014 at 4:32 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 26, 2014 at 4:17 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Also, it says "disbelief", which clearly indicates one dominant usage of "atheism" is the view that theism is false.
Still not correct.
All disbelief is, is that one does not believe a claim or claims.
It does not mean that one necessarily believes the contrapositive claim.
You are trying to force atheism to be a response to 2 prongs of dilemma simultaneously, when it is clearly not.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
