RE: If there is no such thing as the supernatural, then how do you explain this?
July 15, 2014 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2014 at 5:42 pm by Cyberman.)
(July 15, 2014 at 5:38 pm)beentheredonethat Wrote: Only naturalist, materialistic fundamentalists believe there is no such thing as the supernatural. Every other sane being on the planet agrees that it exists.
Scepticism - of which atheism is a specialised subset - is the position of withholding belief until there is sufficient evidence to think otherwise. In and of itself, it is not the belief in the contra-positive.
(July 15, 2014 at 5:38 pm)beentheredonethat Wrote: It's a good thing that atheists are such a small part of the overall population, otherwise we would be in HUGE TROUBLE.
Right - we can do without all those witch burnings and torture for heresy.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
