RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 5, 2019 at 9:29 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2019 at 9:41 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 5, 2019 at 7:02 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: It's already been explained to you MULTIPLE times why agnostic and atheist are not mutually exclusive. That you refuse to recognize this is your problem, not mine. For all intents and purposes, you ARE an agnostic atheist. Whether or not you choose to adopt said title is up to you.
Let's say I see a pregnant woman walking down the street. Do I believe she's having a boy? Do I believe she's having a girl? Am I an a-boyist if I don't have an active belief that it's a boy? Am I an a-girlist if I don't have an active belief that it's a girl?
No. I know she's having a boy / girl. My belief is not missing, it's in a state of superposition resolvable only by knowledge.
This is my position on the God idea in general. I don't lack a belief in god, or in not god. I believe in god / not god, and which one it turns out to be depends on knowledge about a level of reality to which I don't have access.
Your position sounds to me a lot like those who insist: "A photon MUST BE either a particle or a wave. It can't be both or neither, because that's physically impossible!" Well, you've got to wake up to the fact that not only is ambiguity real, it's the default state of reality: a photon is particle/wave until it's resolved by the act of collecting knowledge. It's absurd to form a single belief about the mortality Schrodinger's cat; but it's perfectly reasonable to say you don't know if it's alive.
The existential truth about a philosophical God is hidden inside Schrodinger's box, and nobody has the key, or probably ever will.
