RE: [split] Agnostic atheism is the only intellectually honest position
July 28, 2010 at 11:30 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2010 at 11:31 pm by SleepingDemon.)
This isn't true. No one can say that unicorns, dragons, fairies, ogres, werewolves, nymphs, minotaurs or griffins do not and have never existed, but if you believe in any of these things, then you're seeing evidence where there is none, same with theists. So applying this same mindset to the "possible" impossibilities like any single one of the thousands of gods that mankind has believed in over the course of history gives me and everyone who vehemently believes that none of them ever existed to begin with is a perfectly logical conclusion. Personally I find agnosticism to be more of an unwilling compromise than an actual position. Theists believe gods do exist, atheists do not, agnostics do not decide anything.
I do not ride the fence so to speak on any of the mythological creatures listed above, and I don't feel the slightest bit of doubt concerning them. All of those creatures are "possible" in one form or another if you allow yourself to step outside the boundaries of everything we know about how biology actually works on this planet. All of the gods are certainly "possible" in one form or another if you allow yourself to step outside the boundaries of everything we know about biology, astronomy, geology, paleontology, physics, astrophysics, history, and the scientific process. Agnostic atheism is the best passive aggressive position, but not the only intelligent one.
I do not ride the fence so to speak on any of the mythological creatures listed above, and I don't feel the slightest bit of doubt concerning them. All of those creatures are "possible" in one form or another if you allow yourself to step outside the boundaries of everything we know about how biology actually works on this planet. All of the gods are certainly "possible" in one form or another if you allow yourself to step outside the boundaries of everything we know about biology, astronomy, geology, paleontology, physics, astrophysics, history, and the scientific process. Agnostic atheism is the best passive aggressive position, but not the only intelligent one.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
