"Response to a single claim." There you go. It's been ten years since I called myself a Christian. But I was deeply indoctrinated for decades. How much of what I think and ask is a response to this claim that there's this Colonel Sanders-looking dude I'm supposed to think of as God and his dear son with the Three Musketeers haircut? This is what I no longer believe.
Even after you've defined atheism in no uncertain terms, I must still wonder does what I believe now qualify as a deity? As Richard Dawkins said, a voice booming from heaven is no proof of God because it may just be a technologically advanced extraterrestrial. Nothing can serve as proof of that which is outside our senses since it's subject to interpretation. I would say it's easier to define what atheism is than to define what a god is.
I'm leaning towards agnostic atheism since I can't say I believe in something without knowing exactly what it is.
Even after you've defined atheism in no uncertain terms, I must still wonder does what I believe now qualify as a deity? As Richard Dawkins said, a voice booming from heaven is no proof of God because it may just be a technologically advanced extraterrestrial. Nothing can serve as proof of that which is outside our senses since it's subject to interpretation. I would say it's easier to define what atheism is than to define what a god is.
I'm leaning towards agnostic atheism since I can't say I believe in something without knowing exactly what it is.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
