RE: [split] Hello everyone
December 30, 2014 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2014 at 3:01 pm by Chili.)
(December 30, 2014 at 11:31 am)Stimbo Wrote: Atheism has nothing to do with any fear of religion or religious practices. Atheists on the other hand can be motivated by any manner of factors. I don't get why you're making this so difficult.
Well you know, I do not even know what theism is if that makes the atheist position possible for you. A theists believes in God or gods, let's say. If the concept God is not prior by nature to me how would I know what God is and what the very word God means if I cannot identify with it. Would my first question not be: "you believe in what?" unless the not-visible concept God is already prior to me by nature right from the start?
This would be similar to the sound of galloping horse. If I have never heard this sound before and when I hear this sound for the first time I go to window to see I will soon know what this sound is all about. Once this connection is made, how can you deny me telling you "there goes that horse again" the next time I hear that same sound again?
This then is why I call atheists impoverished believers opposite to which mystics are enriched believers, and I write this only to show that belief does have its own opposite in doubt that sets knowledge apart as an end in itself.