RE: Is atheism a belief?
February 26, 2019 at 12:20 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2019 at 12:21 am by Bucky Ball.)
(February 25, 2019 at 11:40 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(February 25, 2019 at 11:29 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: I claim that I do not believe in any gods.
Yes, that's no problem. I'm addressing why it is so.
Here's an example of what I mean.
Literalist Christians claim that Jesus rose from the dead. I evaluate this claim according to two facts which I hold to be true:
1) No reputable, non-propagandistic source has ever recorded someone rising from the dead.
2) Many myths and other kinds of fiction (e.g. the stories of Bacchus and of Marvel comic book characters) tell stories about people coming back from the dead, in order to teach moral or propagandistic messages.
Because I hold these things to be true, they form, for me, solid criteria by which I reject the claims of the religious people, that Jesus rose from the dead.
This is an example of what I mean, when I say that we have criteria by which we judge the claims of religious people.
Do you think that my two criteria here are bad ones? Do you think my conclusion from these criteria, that the resurrection story is fiction, is a bad conclusion?
Your two criteria are OK, but there are better ones, AND neither yours nor the better ones are "claims" nor are they "beliefs".
That's alot of "nors" right over there.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist