RE: Rejection of All that is Holy
November 17, 2014 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2014 at 12:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 17, 2014 at 12:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: By way of analogy, my belief that horses not a food source (a uniquely American attitude) remains passive until I am presented with a plate of horse meat and I actively reject it in disgust.Right, so, my atheism is passive until presented with a god.
Quote: Something important is missing by failing to consider that simply holding a specific belief, like ‘horses are not a food source’ fosters a disposition in the person holding the belief.Right, and since we're talking about horses not being a food source your disgust or rejection wouldn;t have anything to say on the reality of the matter. That horse -is- a food source can be objectively established. Whether or not you feel like eating Flicka is a matter entirely seperate from whether or not it is a food source. Now, kindly establish something about a god after having first presented one so that this analogy can hold?
Quote:Spiritual experiences of the divine are a common and normal part of the human experience. Fitting those into our model of how the world works depends on how people tag those experiences. The atheist, acting in accordance with disbelief, rejects attributing these extraordinary states to divine influence.Meh, I don't "act in accordance with disbelief". I act in accordance with a body of knowledge regarding human experiences and the limits and ticks of our biological machinery. My "disbelief" is a product, it isn't producing anything itself. My disbelief isn't even why I'm not a christian, for example.
Quote: What I am saying is that within Western culture there is no conceptual vacuum in which atheism is the default position; atheism will always be a positive act of rejection of spiritual experiences as divine.LOL, "I've apologized for my confusion, but I would like to reassert the thing I apologized for - and add some more shit to the pile while I'm at it"
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