RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 22, 2012 at 12:10 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2012 at 12:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I've never understood the idea of "god" as a mystery worthy of distinctions like "possible but not likely" or really any sort of credibility at all. We know a hell of alot about "gods", we know a hell of alot about a hell of alot of them. We see where they come from in each and every instance. We see what they are used to explain in each and every instance. There is a veritable mountain of evidence regarding gods, but none of it any evidence of their actual existence beyond the minds of men and ability of our writers, singers, and sculptors. Possible by what metrics? How have we assigned such a probability? Why let loose of all that is or can be known about gods to posit some great mystery? It seems to me that those who do this must first create the mystery, so that they may then invoke it.
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