RE: In need of a more humbleness. Why condemning the Theistic position makes no sense.
September 20, 2014 at 9:46 pm
(September 20, 2014 at 9:43 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I find it all to convenient that you dropped, "if they're right they're right" in favor of theism, but managed to construct the exact opposite for atheism in a thread about how "some" atheists ought to be more humble.
I'm an atheist for -reasons-, if I'm right....guess what....I'm right (as per the above), and I -would- know that there was no god, and that no one else "knew him".
But the Atheist position is not that there is no God. It's that they don't believe in God. So from this stance, you would have to either claim:
1) God doesn't exist
2) If he exists, he has not made himself known to anyone.
And if you want to remain logical, you would have to prove these.
Now believers claim to know God via faith, but how does an Atheist know 1 or 2? Via faith? no. So it makes no sense.
Therefore it makes more sense to keep one's stance and keep an open mind that a Theist might have a legitimate experience.
That would be a more humble approach and it's the better one in my honest opinion.