RE: Your stance on Hard Atheism
October 27, 2014 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2014 at 4:38 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:Do you think that hard atheism is irrational considering that man can not know what he doesn't know?
No. The question as worded indicates that you don't understand what positive atheism actually is (I've never before heard the term 'hard atheism').
An atheist, as such, is one who lacks all belief in all gods, nothing more or less. It is not an insistence that gods cannot exist. Rather, it is a statement about the lack of belief of a particular individual. One doesn't need to be metaphysically certain that gods don't exist in order to be a positive atheist - all that is needed is to lack the belief that they do exist.
And for what it's worth, 'man cannot know what he doesn't know' applies perfectly well to theists. By way of example, you don't know that God exists, you simply believe that he does, which isn't the same thing at all.
Boru
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