(May 21, 2015 at 4:26 pm)Anima Wrote:(May 21, 2015 at 4:18 pm)TRJF Wrote: Yeah, you're going to need to do a... far better job of explaining your position before someone will agree to debate you on it.
As you wish:
I understand the atheistic position to not accept that which may not be empirically verified. Therefore it may be said atheism does not recognize that which is metaphysical and cannot be verified empirically.
I further understand atheism to contend that our sentiments, feelings, compulsion, instincts, and so forth are simply a result of of the chemical reactions in our brains. Thereby rendering us as meat automatons which react to stimuli.
Being meat automatons that react to stimuli means there is no "person" and we are no different than a rock which reacts to its surroundings or bacteria which reacts to stimuli.
Surprised someone with a supposedly deep understanding of theology got atheism so wrong.
Atheism is literally one response to one question.
Do you believe in a god or gods? No. <----------That's all atheism is.
Any attendant ideas about metaphysics or empricism or rationality or anything else, are entirely separate from atheism and should be discussed on their own merits.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson