RE: Belief and Knowledge
October 30, 2014 at 2:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2014 at 3:07 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(October 30, 2014 at 12:02 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(October 30, 2014 at 8:37 am)Cato Wrote: Theists continually attempt to patch together various beliefs into an 'atheist world view'.That's because atheism logically entails a very specific worldview: a world without the influence of god(s). By default that means that atheists must believe that every known phenomena has a non-divine cause.
Or change their minds if a divine cause turns up.
(October 30, 2014 at 12:02 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm open to hear of a middle ground that someone actually believes and promotes. If I'm wrong then, I would like to hear something any AF member atheist believes that does not have a natural cause.
Agreeing with you isn't 'middle ground'. Most of us are willing to change our minds. Some of us for reasons that don't nearly have to amount to a miracle. And just because atheists who believe in ghosts or reincarnation are scarce around here doesn't mean they don't exist, or that speciifying AF member atheists because you KNOW that atheists who believe in 'unnatural causes' exist is anything but a rhetorical device to evade acknowledging that simple truth. Rational skeptics have enough of a majority here that we tend to run off the atheist nutjobs who, after all, at least don't think they have a divine commission to change our minds...but that just means this forum can't be used as a reasonable basis for declaring generalities about 'what the atheist viewpoint MUST entail'.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.


