(June 24, 2017 at 8:06 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(June 24, 2017 at 8:02 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Well, like I said, if I thought that was the whole show I'd be a gnostic atheist. I just don't think so. God belief was real, gods as extra psychic phenomena never were. I'm not sure what it means but I think there may be a worthwhile salvage mission here. Literal gods are not in play, but figaturive ones may be.Figurative gods are not the subject of the atheist question.
Speaking entirely for yourself, I'm quite certain you are correct. You do not speak for at least one other atheist.
(June 24, 2017 at 8:06 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(June 24, 2017 at 8:02 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I want to know what it is about us which evokes such notions. Hey, we all have our vices. But yeah, I'm gnostic in my atheism toward literal gods, you know - the kind nearly every theist has in mind.You imagine that there is some other kind of god. There isn't.
No, I'm quite certain there is something which god belief has been about. It was never about literal gods but it was most certainly about something. Since that something wasn't empirical in nature it was something internal, something within the subjective experience of people who believed. I don't think I've said anything surprising. But if you have some reason you think I should agree with you, go ahead and run it by me. Otherwise I guess you're just saying you disagree. Got it.
