RE: My blog
February 26, 2015 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 10:54 am by Dystopia.)
I don't like how you say that atheism is not gnostic atheism. In case you didn't notice, it is an atheist proposition, just not the most common. When someone says "I'm an atheist" it's not possible to know if they are gnostic or agnostic. I agree that atheism doesn't require knowing that there are no gods, but making the claim that there are no gods is still atheism.
Work a little more on anti-theism - It's not just opposition to the god idea, it can be:
- Opposition to theistic beliefs (not only religious ones) because the anti-theist believes those to be harmful
- Opposition to the god and theistic ideas because the anti-theist believes it is nonsense and irrational
- Opposition to god regardless of him existing or not. In my case I would be an anti-theist if there was a god, I would be against god.
- A personal opinion of mine is that anti-theism can be the rejection of illegitimate authority, in this case god.
I don't agree with this... You see, it's not really 50/50, god existing or not is not dependent on abstract chance - In this case I'd say god is more like a coin that has two heads and no tail but no one has ever seen the other side to check if there is a tail - The coin flips and always ends in head, and therefore people end up betting that heads is more likely and start questioning if there really is a tail in the other side.
Work a little more on anti-theism - It's not just opposition to the god idea, it can be:
- Opposition to theistic beliefs (not only religious ones) because the anti-theist believes those to be harmful
- Opposition to the god and theistic ideas because the anti-theist believes it is nonsense and irrational
- Opposition to god regardless of him existing or not. In my case I would be an anti-theist if there was a god, I would be against god.
- A personal opinion of mine is that anti-theism can be the rejection of illegitimate authority, in this case god.
Quote:As another example, if I am about to flip a coin and I ask you whether you believe it will be heads or you believe it will be tails, the honest answer is that you don't believe either. You don't have enough information to make a meaningful judgement. Refusing to accept one claim of knowledge does not require belief that the opposite of that claim is true. There is no requirement to pick "one side or the other", it's perfectly fine to say you don't have a belief either way. You would literally just be guessing, so what is the point of that?[this is quoted from your blog]
I don't agree with this... You see, it's not really 50/50, god existing or not is not dependent on abstract chance - In this case I'd say god is more like a coin that has two heads and no tail but no one has ever seen the other side to check if there is a tail - The coin flips and always ends in head, and therefore people end up betting that heads is more likely and start questioning if there really is a tail in the other side.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you