RE: In need of a more humbleness
September 20, 2014 at 9:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2014 at 9:29 pm by Jenny A.)
(September 20, 2014 at 9:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Atheists often say they don't know whether or not God exists and that simply God is not known to them to exist by tangible evidence, reasoned argument or experience. They also tend to say that their position is solely based on what they have experienced. They don't know proofs for God, so they won't assume there are any proofs for God. God hasn't revealed himself to them so they won't assume he has to others.
This is a fair point of view.
But what makes no sense is to assume others don't have any good reason to believe in God or there is no merit to faith.
This is taking a step further. You would have to either prove there is no God or that if there is a God, he has not made himself known to anyone.
Therefore it is more reasonable that Atheists take a more humble approach to their Atheism, that they simply state this is the position they take, but they don't necessarily condemn the Theistic position.
I don't go around condemning the theist position on the existence god in every day life. I do here.
It's not so much that god hasn't been personally revealed to me, than it is that those who think god has personally has personally revealed himself to them disagree violently (sometimes literally violently) about what he is like, what he did, and what he wants. That plus the utter lack of tangible evidence that anyone can point to and yes I'm quite sure theists are deluded. And unlike at Easter dinner, I don't think it's rude to say so here. It's not as if the title of the forum weren't fair warning.
Outside this forum, I do tell people what I think, if they ask. That's not lack of humility. That's being straight forward and honest. I also condemn insane or immoral positions taken in the name of god. That's self defense.
I often hear atheists being accused of arrogance. You want to know what arrogance is? Arrogance is thinking there is an almighty who cares about you, and you have a personal pipeline to his is plans---now that's lack of humility.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.