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From atheism to tentative agnosticism
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RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism
(June 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm)Inigo Wrote: I'm not sure this is a conversion story as such, and anyway it goes in the wrong direction. So, if anything, I am here to see if anyone can show me the error of my ways so that I can go back to atheism.

I was brought up an atheist and would have described myself as such until very recently. However, I no longer have any great confidence in the truth of atheism. This is not due to any kind of religious experience. Rather, it is entirely due to reflection on the nature of morality and reason. I now take seriously that both may presuppose a god of some sort. Not, note, a Judaeo Christian god. Just a powerful supernatural agency.

And so I am here to see if I am misguided in some way. I have no sympathies with any religious groups or beliefs - indeed, I take all religions to be just so much mumbo jumbo. And I have no time for those who believe in a god on the basis of faith.

You are likely mistaken. Since there is no evidence for the supernatural, what is it about the nature of morality that leads you to believe it necessitates something supernatural?

Inquiring minds want to know.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 6:58 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 8:01 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Angrboda - June 30, 2013 at 8:41 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 9:31 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Cyberman - June 30, 2013 at 10:30 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 10:53 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Cyberman - June 30, 2013 at 11:00 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 11:06 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Foxaèr - June 30, 2013 at 11:12 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 11:19 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Cyberman - June 30, 2013 at 11:26 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 11:01 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Foxaèr - June 30, 2013 at 11:06 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Searching4truth - September 10, 2013 at 8:53 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Whateverist - September 10, 2013 at 10:26 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Bad Wolf - June 30, 2013 at 7:16 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 7:27 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 7:18 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 7:33 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 7:50 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 7:41 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 8:43 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Cyberman - June 30, 2013 at 8:07 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 8:30 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Cyberman - June 30, 2013 at 9:10 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Minimalist - June 30, 2013 at 10:07 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 10:35 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Minimalist - June 30, 2013 at 11:19 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - June 30, 2013 at 11:34 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 2, 2013 at 4:27 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 2, 2013 at 7:28 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 2, 2013 at 7:43 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 4:04 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by fr0d0 - July 1, 2013 at 12:51 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 5:43 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 7:40 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by fr0d0 - July 1, 2013 at 6:16 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 8:02 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by fr0d0 - July 2, 2013 at 1:05 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Brian37 - July 2, 2013 at 7:59 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Brian37 - July 1, 2013 at 6:09 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by fr0d0 - July 1, 2013 at 3:02 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by fr0d0 - July 1, 2013 at 4:05 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Polaris - July 1, 2013 at 8:08 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 8:19 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Polaris - July 1, 2013 at 8:50 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 9:23 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 8:37 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Cyberman - July 1, 2013 at 10:11 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 10:29 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Foxaèr - July 1, 2013 at 10:47 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Inigo - July 1, 2013 at 11:00 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by fr0d0 - July 2, 2013 at 8:08 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Chas - September 10, 2013 at 10:02 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Mister Agenda - September 10, 2013 at 11:56 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Angrboda - September 10, 2013 at 6:47 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Whateverist - September 11, 2013 at 11:07 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by pocaracas - September 11, 2013 at 11:28 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Whateverist - September 12, 2013 at 10:12 am
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by pocaracas - September 12, 2013 at 12:05 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Mister Agenda - September 11, 2013 at 12:24 pm
RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism - by Simon Moon - September 12, 2013 at 6:58 pm



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