(October 27, 2014 at 4:14 pm)trmof Wrote: I would like to get your general opinions on the validity of hard atheism. Specifically, I would like to get the views of the agnostic atheists. The reason being, just as confrontational and irrational Christians are much more likely to seek out a bitter debate with atheists than those who follow the example of Christ, hard atheists are also more likely to seek out a bitter debate than agnostic atheists.
The problem of Christians behaving in an a manner which besmirches Christianity is often discussed, both on the internet and in the real world. However, I think the issue of hard atheists painting agnostic atheists in a bad light is hardly ever addressed, and as a consequence agnostic atheists are less likely to correct hard atheists on their rational errors than Christians are to correct their fellow Christians on theological ones.
And so a poll: Do you think that hard atheism is irrational considering that man can not know what he doesn't know?
"hard atheism" what does that mean? Is that like pale 3% beer vs dark 5% beer?
I think when using the term agnostic atheist what is lacking is the issue of time, in past, present and future.
I have no doubt all past and present claims of god/s are bullshit. I am only strictly semantically "agnostic" about the future in that I have not lived the future, but even in this case, I find it highly unlikely to a great degree that science will ever find a god in a gap at all.
With all the evidence of dead myths and dead gods, and scientific proof of flawed perceptions like seeing the butterfly in the ink blot not being a real butterfly, I see no point clinging to the naked assertion of a invisible sky hero which in reality is nothing more than humans projecting their own desires on the world around them.