RE: Atheism / Satanism
April 16, 2015 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2015 at 9:18 am by robvalue.)
Sure, I suppose you can when you state it like that. I don't agree with the first one personally; surely you know you believe something, otherwise you're saying you don't actually know for sure what you believe. That is to declare yourself unreliable in every respect and/or worry about solipsism. Which are valid concerns, but hopefully ones we usually assume are false for sake of argument.
But I still think it's not necessary for a statement of belief to accompany the rejection of a claim.
Of course, you're going to have all sorts of other beliefs probably, such as beliefs about the personal making the claim, beliefs about how the claim could be modified so you'd believe it, beliefs about some of the evidence presented, and so on. But if I say I reject a claim, other than just saying my brain has done some work there, nothing more needs stating about beliefs.
That's my take on it. It's getting rather semantic really.
Yes very good video! It gets the point across nicely. I think even many atheists across the world are confused on this point.
Hey, that's a really good video actually. Thanks!
It demonstrates how atheism covers 2 of the 3 possible positions nicely as well as the lack of belief angle.
But I still think it's not necessary for a statement of belief to accompany the rejection of a claim.
Of course, you're going to have all sorts of other beliefs probably, such as beliefs about the personal making the claim, beliefs about how the claim could be modified so you'd believe it, beliefs about some of the evidence presented, and so on. But if I say I reject a claim, other than just saying my brain has done some work there, nothing more needs stating about beliefs.
That's my take on it. It's getting rather semantic really.
Yes very good video! It gets the point across nicely. I think even many atheists across the world are confused on this point.
Hey, that's a really good video actually. Thanks!
It demonstrates how atheism covers 2 of the 3 possible positions nicely as well as the lack of belief angle.
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