RE: Why Atheism instead of agnosticism of some sort
November 6, 2010 at 6:27 am
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2010 at 6:31 am by Ervin.)
Tonight I have been watching on you tube Dan Dennet's Good reasons for believing in God and I must say that I truly believe that he is being very honest, litle bit biased but honest.
But then I think about night, day, the improbability of life raisning spontainesly and all that and I end up thinking there could be a Deist sort of God. Who knows?
I do believe that science is very important in helping us understand reality, however in my case I don't have a very good understaning of it. I am not very educated, so I don't know much.
However I haver enroled into university and will be doing philosophy. If I finish a uni I honestly can't say wether I wil be a Deist philosopher or something else. I mean there is pantheism, atheism and whatever.
Critical examination and aplication of reason is why I am not a theist. Reason and science are the best things we have wether trying to understand a deist God or No God theory and it is something that we need to encourage in everyone.
The only thing that I would change about some Atheists(atheists naturaly promote science and critical thinking) is their aproach, I mean some of you can be quite ruthles in your dealings with the believers.
One of The worst things about believing in a theist God is the belief in hell. I don't think that I have to elaborate on why, however I will mention that if you believe God will do that to someone just for disbelieving in him then who is going to stop you from doing something of a finite punishment.
Thanks
But then I think about night, day, the improbability of life raisning spontainesly and all that and I end up thinking there could be a Deist sort of God. Who knows?
I do believe that science is very important in helping us understand reality, however in my case I don't have a very good understaning of it. I am not very educated, so I don't know much.
However I haver enroled into university and will be doing philosophy. If I finish a uni I honestly can't say wether I wil be a Deist philosopher or something else. I mean there is pantheism, atheism and whatever.
Critical examination and aplication of reason is why I am not a theist. Reason and science are the best things we have wether trying to understand a deist God or No God theory and it is something that we need to encourage in everyone.
The only thing that I would change about some Atheists(atheists naturaly promote science and critical thinking) is their aproach, I mean some of you can be quite ruthles in your dealings with the believers.
One of The worst things about believing in a theist God is the belief in hell. I don't think that I have to elaborate on why, however I will mention that if you believe God will do that to someone just for disbelieving in him then who is going to stop you from doing something of a finite punishment.
Thanks
