RE: Atheist or Agnostic?
April 3, 2015 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2015 at 4:38 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 3, 2015 at 4:19 pm)datc Wrote: Simon, in your view, what is the natural orientation of an agnostic, theism or atheism?
Should he lean toward atheism out of some psychological peculiarity, such as, as whateverist wrote on this thread,
Quote:Whatever the existential status of fanciful things may be, they have no use to me and so I make all my plans without regard to them.
Or because, as you write,
Quote:the default position on the claim that unicorns do exist, is to disbelieve the claim...?
I'm sure there are many more agnostic-atheists than agnostic-theists.
And to get even more specific, I bet that the majority of those that identify as agnostic-theist, are deists or believe in some other god not specific to a religion..
My atheism is a natural outcome of my skepticism.
It is my contention, that the result of correctly applying critical thinking and skepticism to god claims is disbelief.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
