RE: Is atheism a belief?
February 26, 2019 at 6:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2019 at 6:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Personally, I'm convinced that adults states of belief in x y or z can be and are as commonly a-rational as any kindergartners. God beliefs...."natural atheism"....and this very thread.... are all wonderful examples of that.
Ad hoc rationalizations are not reasons in anything other than a low colloquial sense. We can say that the man skullfucked his neighbor because a neon flashing toucan told him to - that's the reason he did it, without implying (or even attempting to imply) that this is an example of reason at work.
I figure you'd be tickled pink to find someone who actually has considered their "reasons" and decided that reason was not at play in what made me an atheist. I'm not an atheist for any of the reasons that I might use to satisfy my confidence in knowledge claims (my gnostic atheism), it's just what I've always been. I'm unlikely to change my mind due to adult criteria and categorizations...but that didn't cause my atheism and if I wasn't totally in the tank for science, for example..that wouldn't impact my atheism. I'd just be an atheist who was no longer in the tank for science. Hell, I used to be one. I didn't know what science was. Curious george, man.
Ad hoc rationalizations are not reasons in anything other than a low colloquial sense. We can say that the man skullfucked his neighbor because a neon flashing toucan told him to - that's the reason he did it, without implying (or even attempting to imply) that this is an example of reason at work.
I figure you'd be tickled pink to find someone who actually has considered their "reasons" and decided that reason was not at play in what made me an atheist. I'm not an atheist for any of the reasons that I might use to satisfy my confidence in knowledge claims (my gnostic atheism), it's just what I've always been. I'm unlikely to change my mind due to adult criteria and categorizations...but that didn't cause my atheism and if I wasn't totally in the tank for science, for example..that wouldn't impact my atheism. I'd just be an atheist who was no longer in the tank for science. Hell, I used to be one. I didn't know what science was. Curious george, man.
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